HEROINE, OR ADVENTURES OF CHERUBINA, BY EATON STANNARD BARRETT, ESQ. "L'Histoire d'une femme est toujours un Roman." This Edition. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, PUBLIC LIBRARY, CONDUIT-STREET, HANOVER-SQUARE, Sir, TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE GEORGE CANNING, &c. &c. &c. It was the happiness of STERNE to have dedicated his volumes to a PITT. It is my ambition to inscribe this work to you. My wishes would be complete, could I resemble the writer as you do the statesman. I have the honor to be, Sir, Your most sincere, and most humble servant, E. S. BARRETT. THE HEROINE TO THE READER. Moon, May 1, 1813. ATTEND, gentle and intelligent reader; for I am not the fictitious personage whose memoirs whose memoirs you will peruse in "The Heroine;" but I am a corporeal being, and an inhabitant of the Moon... Know, that the.momenta.mortal manuscript is written in a legible hand, and the word End or Finis annexed, whatever characters happen. to be sketched therein (whether imaginary, biographical, or historical), acquire the quality of creating a soul or spirit, which takes immediate flight, and ascends through the regions of air, till it arrives at the MOON; where it is then embodied, and becomes a living creature the precise counterpart, in mind and person, of its literary prototype. |