THE JUVENILE
Englishman’s Library.
II.
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“Not so Master Marmozet, sweet little boy,
Mrs. Danglecub’s hope, her delight, and her joy.
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His jacket’s well laced, and the ladies protest
Master Marmozet dances as well as the best;
Yet some think the boy would be better at school.”
_Anstey._
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THE
HOPE
OF THE
KATZEKOPFS;
OR, THE
SORROWS
OF
SELFISHNESS.
A Fairy Tale.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
JOSEPH MASTERS.
JAMES BURNS.
1846.
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· LONDON ·
PRINTED BY JOSEPH MASTERS,
ALDERSGATE STREET.
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PREFACE.
The former edition of this little tale was put forth with an
Introduction (which was intended to be in keeping with it) from the pen
of an imaginary author,—that William Churne, of whom Bishop Corbet
writes, and who, two centuries since, seems to have been the great
authority on all matters connected with Fairy-land.
In this introduction, the object with which the “Hope of the Katzekopfs”
was written was stated. It was an attempt, under the guise of a
Fairy-tale, to lead young minds to a more wholesome train of thought
than is commonly found at the present day in popular juvenile
literature. The Author’s aim was to excite the sympathies of the young
in behalf of _others_, and to set before them in its true colours the
hideous sin of _selfishness_. And the book was put forth as an
experiment, to ascertain whether the youth of the present generation had
patience to glean the lessons which lurk beneath the surface of
legendary tales, and the chronicles of the wild and supernatural;
whether their hearts could be moved to noble and chivalrous feelings,
and to shake off the hard, cold, calculating, worldly, selfish temper of
the times, by being brought into more immediate contact with the ideal,
the imaginary, and the romantic, than has been the fashion of late
years,—whether, in short, a race that has been glutted with Peter
Parley, and Penny Magazines, and such like stories of (so called) useful
knowledge, would condescend to read a Fable and its Moral, and learn
wisdom from a tale of enchantment.
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The early call for a Second Edition seems to show that the experiment
was not made in vain, and at the request of the Publisher, the Author
appends his name.
FRANCIS E. PAGET.
ELFORD RECTORY,
SEPTEMBER, MDCCCXLVI.
CONTENTS.
Page.
INTRODUCTION xi.
CHAPTER I.
The Heir and many Friends 1