PREFACE.
This little volume is presented to the public, in compliance with the wishes of several friends who have perused the manuscript translation.
The title adopted is indeed a little at variance with the original word; but, as in English, a Novel signifies 3 vols. 12mo., it might seem ludicrous to appropriate the same awful title to these few pages. I have, therefore, considered Stories to be more suitable, as the very idea of having to labour through five novels would terrify many; moreover, we generally expect some dreadful event connected with a novel; by which, in the present instance, the reader might be woefully disappointed,
