THE

SHIP OF GLASS;

OR,

THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.

A ROMANCE,

IN THREE VOLUMES.

BY

HARGRAVE JENNINGS.

AUTHOR OF MY MARINE MEMORANDUM BOOK," &c.

"There was a SHIP,' quoth he."

Coleridge's Ancient Mariner.

VOL. I.

LONDON:

THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHE

72, MORTIMER ST, CAVENDISH Sq.

1846

1056.

PREFACE.

Ir a bulky book be an evil, a long preface may be regarded as a still greater nuisance. It is like a long tiresome bow from a master of the ceremonies when he is keeping you from a view of the "divine partner" he is assiduously busied in introducing. Still the Author could not divest himself of the idea that a pretending work in Three Volumes requires a word or two, lest it should be abruptly thrust into the reader's hands.

These volumes contain Two Tales of very opposite characteristics :-the one being a direct Romance ; the other a sort of Novel, where the writer speaks

more

"Like a man of this world."

But of the two tales, the leading one, though by no means the longest, the writer considers may be safely depended on as the principal.