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VIEW OF CINCINNATI.
HANNAH; OR, A GLIMPSE OF PARADISE. A TALE IN FOUR PARTS.
ILLUSTRATED.BYH. M. MOOS,
Author of "Mortara, or the Pope and his Inquisitors," "Rudolph Morganstern, a Tale of Love and Misery," "Stray Leaves," "Buzzards in Society," etc.CINCINNATI: LITERARY ECLECTIC PUBLISHING HOUSE.
TO
MR. & MRS. HERMAN LEVI,
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF MANY YEARS OF KIND AND FAITHFUL FRIENDSHIP,
THESE PAGES ARE
RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.
PREFACE.
WHEN I, some three years ago, commenced the publication of this novel, serially, it was my intention, to divide the same into three parts, and observe all the rules, as far as I was acquainted with them, to make "HANNAH" a literary, even if not a pecuniary, success. I had intended to introduce no characters but such as were essential toward the carrying out of the main plot, which I had designed to have entirely free of all intricacies. As I progressed in this work, new ideas presented themselves to me, which led to the introduction of a by-plot, which, it may be argued, might have been dispensed with without the loast detriment to the development of the main plot. Be this it as it may, I am neither inclined nor prepared to defend the course I have pursued, but would simply state that circumstances of the gravest consequence, and unlooked-for troubles, prevented me from doing justice to myself and the work I had undertaken to write. If I, however, have succeeded in ministering to the pleasure of my readers—if I have been able to dispel some prejudices that, like an impenetrable mist, have kept Jew and Gentile from understanding one another better—if I have been successful in raising the claims of Israel to a partial acknowledgment of its deserts, the chiefest aim of my ambition has been gained, and my labors have been more than recompensed.
THE AUTHOR.
CINCINNATI, June 19, 1868.