NOVELS.

N° XLI.

“ No kind of literature is so generally attractive as Fiction. Pictures of
life and manners, and Stories of adventure, are more eagerly received by
the many than graver productions, however important these latter may be.
APULBIUS is better remembered by his fable of Cupid and Psyche than by
his abstruser Platonic writings; and the Decameron of Boccaccio has out.
lived the Latin Treatises, and other learned works of that author."

VATHEK.
BY WILLIAM BECKFORD, ESQ.

THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO.

BY HORACE WALPOLE, EARL OF ORFORD.

THE BRAVO OF VENICE. .

BY M. G. LEWIS, ESQ.

LONDON;
RICHARD BENTLEY, 8. NEW BURLINGTON STREET

(SUCCESSOR TO HENRY COLBURN):
BELL AND BRADFUTE. EDINBURGH;
J. CUMMING, DUBLIN.

Lewis' s Bravo of Venice, of which the first and two later editions are here shown, is a translation of Heinrich 2schokke's "Sturm und Drang" novel Abdilino, der Grosse Bandit (1794).