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Title: Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune

Author: Charles James Lever

Illustrator: A. D. M'Cormick

Release Date: May 19, 2010 [EBook #32425]

Language: English

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MAURICE TIERNAY SOLDIER OF FORTUNE

By Charles James Lever

The Novels Of Charles Lever

Edited By His Daughter

Illustrations by A. D. M'Cormick

London

Downey And Co., Limited

12 York St. Covent Garden

1898

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

'Maurice Tiernay was first published as a serial in 'The Dublin
University Magazine,' commencing in the issue for April 1850, and ending
in the issue for December 1851. It was first published in book form
(as a volume of The Parlour Library) with the following title-page
(undated):

Maurice Tiernay | The | Soldier of Fortune | By the Author of | 'Sir
Jasper Carew' | etc. etc. I London, | Thomas Hodgson, | 13 Paternoster
Bow.

The earliest edition which has Lever's name on the title-page is one
published in Leipzig in 1861. This edition has the following title-page:

Maurice Tiernay | the | Soldier of Fortune, | by | Charles Lever, I
Author of 'Charles O'Malley,' etc. I Copyright Edition. | In two VOLUMES
| VOL. I. | LEIPZIG | BERNHARD TAUCH-NITZ I 1861.

NOTICE

The strangeness of some of the incidents, and the rapidity with which
events so remarkable succeeded each other, almost deterred the writer
from ever committing them to the press; nor was it till after much
consultation, and some persuasive influence on the part of friends,
that he at length yielded and decided upon so doing. Whether in that
determination his choice was a wise one, must be left to the judgment of
the reader; for himself, he has but to say that to ponder over some
of these early scenes, and turn over, in thought, some of his youthful
passages, has solaced many a weary hour of an age when men make few new
friendships, and have almost as few opportunities to cultivate old ones.

That the chief events related in these pag