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Fifteen vohimes of this worlc — allowed to be the boldest literary speculation to 

 which the enterprize of the age has g'ven birth — are now published; the 

 reception they have met with — the praises lavished upon the work, and upon 

 the romances individually, by the British press, have been warm and uni- 

 versal ; each volume has been reprinted in America ; they have almost all 

 heen translated into German, many into French; and some have been re- 

 printed at Paris, in the original language, for the accommodation of the 

 English abroad. The names of Banim, Eraser, Galt, the late Andrew 

 PiCKEN, Victor Hugo, the Author of " Tales of a Physician ;" the Author 

 of " Wild Sports of the M^est," Leitch Ritchie, &c., grace the list of Au- 

 thors, and prove that the word of promise has been kept to the fullest extent. 



Clje folloitJtng i^ a Catalogue of t!je ^cn'csS. 



I. THE GHOST HUNTER AND HIS 



FAMILY. A Tale from the powerful j)en 

 of Banim. Exhibiting a Picture of Irish 

 Manners ; supposed to be the most striking, 

 as well as the most beautiful of the wocks 

 of this well-known master. 



II. SCHIXDERHANNES, THE ROBBER 

 OF THE RHINE. A Romantic Sketch, 

 drawn up from Historical and Legal Docu- 

 ments of the celebrated Banditti System 

 of Germany. By the Editor, Leitch 

 Ritchie. 



III. WALTHAM. A Domestic Narrative. 

 By the late Andrew Picken. Anato- 

 mizing Bome of the most strange and 

 myetic Sympathies of our Natnre, in illus- 

 tration of the Doctiine of Fatalism. 



IV. THE STOLEN CHILD; A TALE OF 

 THE TOWN. Detailing, in the minute 

 and original manner of its .Author, Galt, 

 one of the most remarkable histories of 

 evidence ever penned— in reference, it is 

 understood, to a very important event in 

 an illustriims family. 



V. THE BONDMAN. An Historical Narra- 

 tive of the Times of "R at Tyler. The pro- 

 duction of Mrs. O'Neill. The Work is 

 filled witl) historical and legal knowledge, 

 and presents a romaotic picture, not less 

 accurate tlian extraordinary, of one of the 

 most singular epochs of our history. 



VI. THE SLAVE KING. A skilful and ele- 

 gant adaptation of the Bug Jargal of 

 Victor Huoo. Containing a romantic 

 and hislorical description of the Rebellion 

 of the Blacks of Sain t Domingo. By 

 Elizabeth Marharet Ritchie. Illus- 

 trated with Notes, contributed by a recent 

 Traveller. 



VII. THE KHAN'S TALE. A TALE OF 

 THE CARAVANSERAI. By James 

 Baillie Fraseb. Exhibiting a picture 

 of Persian manners of vhe same kind as 

 that which at once startled and delighted 

 the public in his " Kuzzilbash." 



VIII. WALDEMAR ; or. The Sack op 



Magdeburg. A Tale op the Thirty 

 Years' War. In which the skilful Aulhor 

 of "Tales of a Physician," has chosen for 

 the exercise of his vivid pencil the most 

 romantic period in Modem History. 



IX. THE DARK LADY OF DOONA. By 

 the Author of " Wild Sports of the 

 West." An Irish Romance of the time of 

 Elizabeth, so singular and so powerful, 

 that the Atlicn^snm fairly confesses that 

 " criticism would be as idle as reading the 

 riot-act at Donyhrook fair — not a soul 

 would pay it the least attention." 



X. THE BARONET; OR, LMmant Mal- 

 grrlin. a picture of living Manners in 

 the present Fashionable World. By Miss 



J. CliRNER. 



XL THE SEA-WOLF. A Romance of "The 

 Free Traders." A Naval Narrative, of wild 

 and exciting interest, founded on facts, and 

 presenting many points of relation with the 

 celebrated fictions of Cooper. 



XII. THE JESUIT. A powerful and striking 

 illastration of the principles and practices 

 of that celebrated Society, from which it 

 takes its name — including transactions 

 springing out of the disastrous attempt of 

 the Pretender on the Throne of Great 

 Britain. 



XIII. THE SIEGE OF VIENNA, An His- 

 torical Narrative. By Madame Pichler; 

 containing an account of one of the most 

 splendid and picturesque events of the 

 seventeenth centuiy, in which the Poles 

 under Sobieski, took so prominent apart. 



XIV. THE ENTHUSIAST; or.Tkaftsand 

 Characteristics or the German 

 Court. An adaptation of one of the Ro- 

 mances of SriNDLER. An admirably 

 wrought and striking Narrative, full of 

 faith, grace, and affection, and in every way 

 worthy of its high reputation, reminding us, 

 in its(;i'?io?a-mf«(,of the Viciir of Wakefield. 



XV. ERNESTO; OR, The History op a 

 Mind. A Philosophical Romance. By Wil- 

 liam Smith, Esq. Author of '* Guidone." 



" The Library of Romance is, unquestionably, one of the cheapest, the best, and most tastefully got up 

 works of the kind to which modern bibliopoUo spirit and enterprise have given blclb. It will indeed be a 

 standard work, and will be sought after and read with avidity when its contemporary works of fiction are 

 utterly forgotten."— 0(«tn'«?r. 



