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INTRODUCTION.



The tale here presented to the public is the one I began at Coligny, when Frankenstein was planned, and when a noble author having determined to descend from his lofty range, gave up a few hours to a tale of terror, and wrote the fragment published at the end of Mazeppa.[1] Though I cannot boast of


  1. The tale which lately appeared, and to which his lordship’s name was wrongfully attached, was founded upon the ground-work upon which this fragment was to have been continued. Two