文档介绍：TALES FOR FIFTEEN: OR IMAGINATION AND HEART.
TALES FOR FIFTEEN:
OR IMAGINATION AND
HEART.
BY JANE MORGAN.
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TALES FOR FIFTEEN: OR IMAGINATION AND HEART.
Southern District of New-York ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on
the thirteenth day of June, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of
the United States of America, Charles Wiley, of the said District, hath
deposited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as
proprietor, in the words and figures following, to wit:
"Tales for Fifteen; or Imagination and Heart. By Jane Morgan."
In conformity with the Act of Congress of the United States entitled,
"An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of
Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies,
during the times herein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled, "an Act,
supplementary to an Act, for the encouragement of Learning, by securing
the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of
such copies, during the times herein mentioned, and extending the benefits
thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other
prints." JAMES DILL, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York
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TALES FOR FIFTEEN: OR IMAGINATION AND HEART.
PREFACE
WHEN the author of these little menced them, it was her
intention to form a short series of such stories as, it was hoped, might not
be entirely without moral advantage; but unforeseen circumstances have
prevented pletion, and, unwilling to delay the publication any
longer, mits them to the world in their present unfinished state,
without any flattering anticipations of their reception. They are intended
for the perusal of young women, at that tender age when the feelings of
their nature begin to act on them most insidiously, and when their minds
are least prepared by reason and experience to contend with their passions.
"Heart" was intended for a much longer tale, and is unavoidably