A STRANGE STORY.

A STRANGE STORY.

BY

THE AUTHOR OF "RIENZI," "MY NOVEL,"

ETC. ETC. ETC.

"To doubt and to be astonished is to recognize our ignorance. Hence it is that
the lover of wisdom is in a certain sort a lover of mythi (piλóμvlós πws), for
the subject of mythi is the astonishing and marvellous."

SIR W. HAMILTON (after Aristotle), Lectures on Metaphysics, vol. i. p. 78.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

SAMPSON LOW, SON, & CO., 47 LUDGATE HILL.
1862.

[The Right of Translation is reserved.]

250. f. 117.