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THE AMBER WITCH.
Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch. The most interesting
Trial for Witchcraft ever known. Edited by W. Meinold,
D. D. Translated by Lady Duff Gordon. 1 vol. 12mo.,
very handsomely printed, in large clear type, on fine paper.
Price 38 cents.
“This ingenious little tale, which has been twice translated into English, is
written by Dr. Meinold, who professes to have composed it as a practical test
of the powers of the Strauss school to distinguish between true and legendary
history; and it appears that those divines have fallen into the trap. It has
great intrinsic merit.”
—Brit. Quart. Review.
“We have read nothing in fiction or in history which has so completely riveted
and absorbed our interest as this little volume. If it be a fiction it is worthy—we
can give no higher praise—of De Foe.”
—Quarterly Review.
“A gem of modern romance.”
—N. Y. Post.
“This work has enough of the rare and mysterious to satisfy the strongest
craving for the marvellous.”
—Newark Advertiser.
“A more perfect specimen of witchery in this kind of composition we have
rarely, if indeed ever, met with.”
—Albany Argus.
“This delightful work has been received in Europe with universal praise,
and even here it has little at stake in the way of extensive popularity.”
—
Evening Mirror.
“A celebrated work. For simple beauty of narration, as an exposition of human
feeling, and a record of the trials of a pious servant of God, this book is a
perfect gem.”
—U. S. Gazette.
“A work which, for the honest and sincere air of the narrative, has not inaptly
been compared by the London Quarterly Review to that of good old
`Robinson Crusoe;' and for its genuineness and truth of feeling, to the simple
nature and sentiment of the `Vicar of Wakefield,'—to all of which we most
fully concur.”
—Auburn Journal.
“A story of most intense interest, and the critics have been divided on the
question whether it contains more of romance or of sober truth. It seems
now to be conceded that it is a fiction; but it is constructed with such admirable
skill, and every character is introduced and sustained with so much graceful
simplicity and ease, that it requires no small effort, in reading it, to realize
that it is not a veritable narrative of actual occurrences. The foreign journals
are half crazy with admiration of the author's genius.”
—Albany Argus.
“Possesses all the lively interest of a romance, and all the external evidences
of a truthful narrative.”
—Monthly Review.
“The Amber Witch is a fine specimen of literary ingenuity. Perhaps it is
more like a genuine diary. The picture of the girl is sweet, and the tone preserved
about her truly natural and paternal.”
—Tribune.
“The Amber Witch equals Robinson Crusoe in style, and quite surpasses it
in interest.”
—Ladies' Garland.
“It is one of the very few works of fiction of late years which bears about it
the unmistakable marks of classicality. It was a memorable work in the original,
and has been already adopted by acclamation in the English library,
where we may suppose the Vicar of Wakefield shaking hands with its good,
simple-hearted pastor, and De Foe nodding approval to the excessive probability,
the vraisemblance of the style.”
—Democratic Review.
“This is a choice book, full of merit, which consists in its minute, and simple,
and graphic details of common life.”
—Cincinnati Atlas.
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