Excerpt from The Roman Traitor or the Days of Cicero, Cato and Cataline, Vol. 1: A True Tale of the Republic

A few words are perhaps needed as an introduction to a work of far more ambitious character, than any which I have before attempted. In venturing to select a subject from the history of Home, during its earlier ages, undeterred by the failure or, at the best, partial success of writers far more eminent than I can ever hope to become, 1 have been actuated by reasons, which, in order to relieve myself from the possible charge of presumption, I will state briefly.

It has long been my opinion, then, that there lay a vast field, rich with a harvest of material almost virgin, for the romancer's use, in the history of classic ages. And this at a period when the annals of every century and nation since the Christian era have been ransacked, and reproduced, in endless variety, for the entertainment of the hourly increasing reading world, is no small advantage.

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