The Hope of the Katzekopfs

ping with it) from the pen of an imaginary author,—that William Churne, of whom Bishop Corbet writes, and

ours the hideous sin of selfishness. And the book was put forth as an experiment, to ascertain whether the youth of the present generation had patience to glean the lessons which lurk beneath the surface of legendary tales, and the chronicles of the wild and supernatural; whether their hearts could be moved to noble and chivalrous feelings, and to shake off the hard, cold, calculating, worldly, se

at the experiment was not made in vain, and at the r

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