Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Evenings at Haddon Hall: A Series of Romantic Tales of the Olden Time
It is within the precincts of this princely abode of the Vernons and the Mannciws that those simple revels are to take place in which we would fain interest the imagina tions of our readers, with a view to their due appreciation of those exquisite specimens of high art which it is our pl'asnnt office to be the medium of introducing to the world, and which owe their inspiration to the stately times to which those stately relics belong - times when, depre catc them as we may, by our meaningless epithets of rude, barbarous, uncivilized, and the like, gave rise to nohlcr achievements of human intellect, brighter phases of human character, more beautiful examples of human virtue, and more signal evidences of the heights to which our common nature is capable of attaining, than are even dreamt of in the philosophy, much less realised in the practice, of our own ultra-civilized day - times, too, to which the highest art and the purest literature of our own day are frequently compelled to resort, in search of those types of excellence, those traits of heroism, and those svmhols of intellectual and moral beauty, for which the cnamoured seekers look in vain in that more cultivated cm to which they appeal.
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