" Adventures In Texas." in TALES FROM " BLACKWOOD ": Volumes V. & VI ( of 12)

Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood And Sons, [ 1849 or later ]. New edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo, mulitple paginations, half polished calf, marbled boards, Ex libris John McEwen.

"Translations [originally published in Blackwood's magazine] by Frederick Hardman of extracts from Das Cajütenbuch" --Streeter. TEXAS. Hardman translated these pieces from the original German of Karl Postl. [Howes H191 & P502 q.v.]. Contents of Volume V as follows: Adventures in Texas, abridged from the German of Sealsfield, by Frederick Hardman (1843); How we got Possession of the Tuileries, by Professor Aytoun (1848); Captain Paton's Lament, by J. G. Lockhart (1819); The Village Doctor, by Countess D'Arbouville (1849); A Singular Letter from Southern Africa, by 'the Ettrick Shepherd' (1829). Contents of Volume VI as follows: My Friend the Dutchman, by Frederick Hardman (1847); My College Friends - No. II: Horace Leicester (1845); The Emerald Studs, by Professor Aytoun (1847); My College Friends - No. III: W. Wellington Hurst (1846); Christine: a Dutch Story, by Frederick Hardman (1847); The Man in the Bell (1821). Curiously, Postl appears in Howes, U.S.Iana, but not in BASIC TEXAS BOOKS by Jenkins. [ See Wright, AMERICAN FICTION, nos. 2327 - 2329; Raines pp. 183-4; Clark III:100]. "He immortalized Texas in his novel Das Kajütenbuch (Zurich, 1841), or The Cabin Book (New York, 1844; London, 1852). In addition to this novel about Texas, in which he portrays the fledgling republic as the world's great hope for the future," - Glen Lich.