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IX. 



Remarkable Criminal Trials. 



TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF FEUERBACH. 

 BY LADY DUFF GORDON. 



12mo, Muslin, extra gilt, 50 cents. 



A bock of thrilling interest ; one that can not fail to be read with avid- 

 ity. New York Courier. 



This work abounds with singular cases of criminal jurisprudence in Ba- 

 varia, of the most astounding and thrilling interest, the details of which are 

 of remarkable character, and differ essentially from those hitherto familiar 

 to the public in England or this country. They are fully equal, in their 

 absorbing interest, to any thing iu the famous " Causes Celebres" of France ; 

 and, perhaps, for their unique and striking features, are unexcelled by any 

 delineations of crime elsewhere on record. True Sun. 



Public attention was first drawn to this work by an able and interesting 

 article in the Edinburgh Review. They are all narratives of marvelous in- 

 terest more strange and wonderful, many of them, than any work of fic- 

 tion, and giving to the reader a clear view of the nature and peculiarities 

 of the criminal jurisprudence of Germany. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. 



Its illustration of the many curious customs of German criminal jurispru- 

 dence will be sufficiently startling to the English reader ; but, apart from 

 this, the extraordinary subtle discrimination thrown into the narrative of 

 each particular crime gives to the volume, as a mere story book, the intel- 

 lectual interest, the passion, and all the rich and various coloring of a phil- 

 osophical romance. The translation is excellent, and a judicious compres- 

 sion of the original has added much to the effect. London Examiner. 



The narratives abound with thrilling interest, setting forth the constant 

 recurrence of crime, detection, and punishment, in which the attention of 

 the reader is roused by the novelty of the scene, and rewarded by the light 

 thrown upon the darkest portion of human nature. 2iew Bedford Mercury. 



This work has been so highly extolled by the Edinburgh Foreign Quar- 

 terly and other reviews, that not much need be said of its character and 

 claims to public notice. It presents some of the most remarkable stories of 

 horrible crimes and their exposure we have ever met, and gives a very clear 

 and vivid conception of the peculiarities of German criminal jurisprudence. 

 It is a book which will be universally read, as one of the most thrilling and 

 absorbing interest. The translator has given in the preface a very good 

 account of the criminal law of Germany, and has selected only those por- 

 tions of the original work which will have the greatest value and interest. 

 Mirror. 



This book is of an entirely different character from works of a similar title 

 that have hitherto appeared. It contains an account of fourteen trials for 

 murder in Germany, and the object of it is to show the peculiar mode of 

 trial instituted by the Bavarian code. Evening Gazette. 



The records of crime are not usually a profitable kind of reading. The 

 contagion of the example is generally greater than the warning of the fate 

 of the criminal ; and many a villain has been made by the very means taken 

 to keep him from crime. But as much depends on the manner of the nar- 

 rative, and as it is possible to extract some of the gravest lessons of virtue 

 and wisdom from the misdeeds of others, it gives us pleasure to state that 

 the present work is unexceptionable in this respect, while the cases posses* 

 extraordinary interest, and are replete with instruction. They afford much 

 insight of human motives, and teach impressive lessons of the retributive 

 justice of Providence, and the misery and evil of sin. Biblical Repository. 



