BY THE MOST CELEBRATED AUTHORS. Price 2s. sewed, or 2s. 6d. cloth boards. 1. Tales by the O'Hara Family, Part 1 BY JOHN BANIM. CONTAINING "CROHOORE OF THE BILL-HOOK," AND "THE FETCHES." 2. The Commander of Malta 3. The Chateau d'If 4. Mansfield Park....... 5. The Magician ....... 6. Clarence; A Tale of Our Own Times.... 8. The Count of Monte Christo, Vol. 17 JONATHAN FROCK, &c BY EUGENE SUE. BY A. DUMAS. BY W. MAXWELL. 11. Tales by the O'Hara Family, Part 3 BY JOHN BANIM. CONTAINING " JOHN DOE," AND "PETER OF THE CASTLE." 1847. ON FIRST OF JANUARY, GEORGE; OR, THE PLANTER OF THE ISLE OF FRANCE. PREFACE. IT must be confessed, that the subject of the first of the succeeding Tales is sufficiently hackneyed, and has already been several times beautifully treated; more especially by Mr. Griffin in his admirable tale of "The Collegians;" by Lord Mulgrave, and by the elegant author of the "Tales of a Chaperon." It has been thought, however, that something was yet left to be done upon this subject; and that writers, in general, have fallen into the error of attributing the uneasiness which they describe, rather to a certain ignorance of external forms, and unaptness in merely conventional details, which any girl of sense and spirit would overcome in a few months, than to that radical opposition in habits, sentiments, tastes, and feelings, which renders domestic happiness so rarely attainable, in cases of this kind. Were it of any importance to the reader to be made acquainted with the circumstance, it might be stated, that, late as this story has appeared, it was planned and completed before the appearance of either of the stories last alluded to. |