This book has been prepared for publication as No. 4000, a "Memorial Volume," of the "Tauchnitz Edition." Perhaps it may be well to explain to American readers what the "Tauchnitz Edition" is and what a "Memorial Volume" is in this collection. The "Collection of British Authors," or, as it is more popularly known on the European Continent, the "Tauchnitz Edition," was instituted in 1841, at Leipsic, by one of the most distinguished of German publishers, the late Baron Bernhard Tauchnitz, whose son is now at the head of the house. The father records that he was "incited to the undertaking by the high opinion and enthusiastic fondness which I have ever entertained for English literature: a literature springing from the selfsame root as the literature of Germany, and cultivated in the beginning by the same Saxon race.... As a German-Saxon it gave me particular pleasure to promote the literary interest of my Anglo-Saxon cousins, by rendering English literature as universally known as possible beyond the limits of the British Empire." In another place, Baron Tauchnitz describes "the mission" of his Collection to be the "spreading and strengthening the love for English literature outside of England and her Colonies."

1879. Prolific English writer of novels dealing with Victorian life. An Eye for an Eye is a tragic, gothic romance about the struggle of the upper class Protestant Englishman, Fred Neville, who inherits a high position unexpectedly. He meets and falls in love with Kate O'Hara. They have a love affair, she becomes pregnant and he promises her and her mother that he will marry her. But, he is conflicted by the responsibilities and pressures from his family to marry someone presentable and promises them he will not marry Kate. He decides that he cannot make Kate Countess of Scroope and after telling Kate's mother this, she loses control after years of misery and frustration, and in a sudden fury pushes him over a cliff to his death. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.