Excerpt from The Heretic, Vol. 1 of 3: Or, the German Stranger; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia in the Fifteenth Century, Translated From the Russian of Lajetchnikoff OF all the qualities which awork of fiction must possess, in order to excite and maintain the atten tion of the reader, the most indispensable is, um doubtedly - Novelty: Without this seasoning of novelty, the most solid and nourishing literary fare Will be pronounced insipid; with it, even What is unwholesome and pernicious, will go glibly down the throat of the public consumer. In England, above other countries, is this de mand for novelty felt and heard; there literary, like commercial industry, is so active, that the imagination of the supplier - whether author, artist, or cotton-printer - is kept on the rack to! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.