Editorial note — VOLUME II. (continued 7)
Reading edition
Sources for The Victim of Magical Delusion are given in the Index file.
“The Fatal effects of indulging the passions, Exemplified in The History of M. De La Paliniere” (p. 2).
This serial began in no. 45 of the New-York Weekly; the first 8 of its 12 installments are in Volume I.
Original: Les veillées du château, 1785, by Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis, 1746-1830.
English Translation: Tales of the castle; or, Stories of instruction and delight, trans. Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809. This selection is pages 203-270 in Volume 1 (of 5), in the 1793 (4th) edition.
Link: http://www.archive.org/details/talesofcastleors01genluoft
“Remarks on the wonderful Construction of the Eye” (p. 17) “View of the Starry Heavens” (p. 25, 33) “The singular state of man when asleep.” (p. 41) “Remarks on the wonderful Construction of the Ear” (p. 57).
Original: Betrachtungen über die Werke Gottes im Reiche der Natur und der Vorsehung auf alle Tage des Jahres: Halle 1772 by Christoph Christian Sturm (1740-1786)
Translation: Reflections for every day in the year on the works of God... London 1791, 6th edn. 1798, 7th edn. 1800
Source: All four essays appear in The New magazine of knowledge concerning Heaven and Hell..., 1790.
Notes:
“Georgium Sidus” was Herschel’s original name (1781) for Uranus.
Links: 1800 (7th) edition: http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsfore01sturgoog http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsfore00unkngoog http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsfore00sturgoog
1808 (“new edition”): http://www.archive.org/details/reflectionsonwor01sturiala
“Interesting history of the Princess de Ponthieu” (p. 36)
Original: “A Story of Beyond the Sea” (Estoire d’Outremer), formerly attributed to Marie de France, probably dating to the 13th century.
Modern (French) text: either a nouvelle from 1723 or 1725 or possibly 1723 by Commandeur de Vignacourt, or a roman of about the same period by Madame de Gomez. Both were called La Comtesse de Ponthieu.
The immediate English source has not been identified.