THE NIGHT-SIDE OF NATURE Or, Ghosts and Ghost-Seers. by CATHERINE CROWE Authoress of “Susan Hopley,” “Lilly Dawson,” “Aristodemus,” etc. "Thou com’st in such a questionable shape, That I will speak to thee.” New York: J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall. Boston:—B. B. Mussey & Co. 1850. P R E F A C E . * * * * * IN my late novel of “Lilly Dawson,” I announced my intention of publishing a work to be called “The Night-Side of Nature;" this is it. The term “Night-Side of Nature” I borrow from the Germans, who derive it from the astronomers, the latter denominating that side of a planet which is turned from the sun, its _night-side_. We are in this condition for a certain number of hours out of every t…
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