The novels of Charles Brockden Brown, consisting of Wieland;or, The transformation. Arthur Mervyn; or, Memoirs of the year 1793. Edgar Huntly; or, Memoirs of a sleep-walker. Jane Talbot. Ormond; or, The secret witness. Clara Howard; or, The enthusiasm of love. With a memoir of the author.

INTRODUCTION.
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WHAT could excite in you any curiosity as to my
affairs? You once knew me a simple lad, plying the
file and tweezers at the bench of a watchmaker, with
no prospect before me but of labouring, for a few years
at least, as a petty and obscure journeyman, at the
same bench where I worked five years as an apprentice. I was sprung from obscurity, destitute of property, of parents, of paternal friends; was full of that
rustic diffidence, that inveterate humility, which are
alone sufficient to divert from us the stream of fortune's
favours.
Such was 1 three years ago! Now am I rich, happy,
crowned with every terrestrial felicity, in possession of
that most exquisite of all blessings,-a wife, endowed
with youth, grace, dignity, discretion.
I do not, on second thoughts, wonder at your curiosity. It was impossible for me to have foreseen, ab8