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POPULAR EXCITEMENT.
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guards its people from immoral books and disgusting news-
papers^ not guard them equally from such a disgusting sight
and sound as this Tyrolean exhibition ? These Tyroleans
sold printed histories of the fearful crimes and calamities
which were depicted on their banners. These histories are
very exciting and romantic reading, as you may believe
when I give some of their titles :—“ The History of the
Great and Terrible Monster who cruelly murdered his
Beloved, his Child, his Father, his Mother, his two Sisters,
and his Brother, on the 8th of July, 1850 •” “ Heroic Sei -
sacrifice of a Bohemian Hussar Officer, and the Punish-
ment of his Murderers “ A true and dreadful History
which occurred on the 14th of March, 1850, in Schopka,
near Melnick, in Bohemia “ The Might of Mutual Love ;
a highly remarkable event, which occurred at Thoulon, in
the year 1849/’ “ The Cursed Mill; a Warning from
Beal Life /’ The Temptation; the Deed ; the Conse-
quences !”
If you care to know anything of the style of these re-
markable productions, I will give you a specimen. One
begins thus : “ In Ross-dorf, in Hanover, lived the criminal
Peter Natzer. He was by trade a glazier, his father having
followed the same calling. Peter was five-and-twenty years
old, and was, from his earliest youth, addicted to every
species of crime. He had a sweetheart, named Lucie Braun,
a poor girl, &c. &c.”
Again : “ Silent sat the miller, Leverm, in his garden;
thoughtfully gazed he into the distant valley. He was
scarcely thirty years of age. but heavy cares had bowed
him, and robbed him of his fresh, youthful bloom. Beside
him sat his wife, who cast many an anxious but affectionate
glance on her husband. How tender and lovely was this
young wife ! The inhabitants of the neighbourhood called
her ‘the Rose of the Valley ” thus begins a most awful
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guards its people from immoral books and disgusting news-
papers^ not guard them equally from such a disgusting sight
and sound as this Tyrolean exhibition ? These Tyroleans
sold printed histories of the fearful crimes and calamities
which were depicted on their banners. These histories are
very exciting and romantic reading, as you may believe
when I give some of their titles :—“ The History of the
Great and Terrible Monster who cruelly murdered his
Beloved, his Child, his Father, his Mother, his two Sisters,
and his Brother, on the 8th of July, 1850 •” “ Heroic Sei -
sacrifice of a Bohemian Hussar Officer, and the Punish-
ment of his Murderers “ A true and dreadful History
which occurred on the 14th of March, 1850, in Schopka,
near Melnick, in Bohemia “ The Might of Mutual Love ;
a highly remarkable event, which occurred at Thoulon, in
the year 1849/’ “ The Cursed Mill; a Warning from
Beal Life /’ The Temptation; the Deed ; the Conse-
quences !”
If you care to know anything of the style of these re-
markable productions, I will give you a specimen. One
begins thus : “ In Ross-dorf, in Hanover, lived the criminal
Peter Natzer. He was by trade a glazier, his father having
followed the same calling. Peter was five-and-twenty years
old, and was, from his earliest youth, addicted to every
species of crime. He had a sweetheart, named Lucie Braun,
a poor girl, &c. &c.”
Again : “ Silent sat the miller, Leverm, in his garden;
thoughtfully gazed he into the distant valley. He was
scarcely thirty years of age. but heavy cares had bowed
him, and robbed him of his fresh, youthful bloom. Beside
him sat his wife, who cast many an anxious but affectionate
glance on her husband. How tender and lovely was this
young wife ! The inhabitants of the neighbourhood called
her ‘the Rose of the Valley ” thus begins a most awful