horn is no more than this; the ancient hard sound of k in corn being
softened into the aspirate h, as has been done in numberless instances.

The Irish Celtae also called a round stone 'clogh crene', where the
variation is merely dialectic. Hence, too, our crane-berries,--i.e.,
round berries,--from this Celtic adjective 'crene', round.


The quotations from Scripture in Aram's original MS. were both in the
Hebrew character, and their value in English sounds.




CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

CHAPTER I.
THE VILLAGE.--ITS INHABITANTS.--AN OLD MANORHOUSE: AND AN ENGLISH FAMILY;
THEIR HISTORY, INVOLVING A MYSTERIOUS EVENT.

CHAPTER II.
A PUBLICAN, A SINNER, AND A STRANGER

CHAPTER III.
A DIALOGUE AND AN ALARM.--A STUDENT'S HOUSE.

CHAPTER IV.
THE SOLILOQUY, AND THE CHARACTER, OF A RECLUSE.--THE INTERRUPTION.