The herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1835-1837, 1836-02-15
ANOTHER NUN STORY.

So rapid has been the sale. and wide the circuIa
tisn of the veritabe tale of nunuery life at Montreal
that another of enerprsng booksellers, taking
pity on the ignorance of the age, preparing to bring
forth this week, fresh volume o." Awful Disclosures
peppered and sailed with onderful sauce than
that written by Mr. Theodore Dwight. and dictated by
pretty Maria Monk This work has been in press for
time, and it will be published in day or two by
Leavt & Lord, Christian Booksellers, in Broadway
The brochure contains 800 closely printed pages with
thirteen beautiful copper plate engrasiEgs. We add
few extracts from the Introductory cLap,er:-
The auloress of the Narrative was poor, heart
broken widow, who by the death of her husband was
Left destitute, and far from her home, among strangers
Floating about like wreck, on the stormy of life,
the adversely OF fortune drove her TO the Island of Cuba
She landed Havana, the capital of that island and
there fell into the hands, not of the desperate pirates
whose depredatioHs confined to the highway ocean,
but into the hands of those Spiritual Pirates who under
the cloak Of religion, prowl, like the midnight wolf to
seize and satate their appetites upon the poor and
wandering sheep who happen TO fall into their way.
Hardly had her foot touched the Shore before of
these proving wolves in sleeps clothing scented her
out. He one of the Reverend Fathers; honered,
revered and worshpped by his people, whose vices he
canonized, and upon whose credulity he lived Dis
guised citizen with the badness of his head shorn
according the discipline of his church, concealed aud
covered with wig he pays bis addresses TO the I'M
his house. and constitutes her. once, Mistress of his
domestic concerns Had she know that the fond lover
Popish Priest, would she have yielded as
she declares, To his solicitations. She knew it
not, until she was his PRISONER and then the door of
escape closed.
Being Mistress of his house, and the Queen of his
heart, all the domestic under her control.
He poured into her bosom the feelings that flowed
through his polluted heart and impaired TO her, not
only bis secrets, but those that intrusted
him under the seal Of Confession. She knew every
thing; and she tells US what she knows. She the
witness of his character under all the various shapes
which it assumed: at home, under the exterior of
Priest abroad, under that Of citizen. She was his
companion the ball room the masquerade, the gamb
ling tables, and the tea-parties. She accompanied him
in the Promenades rode with him in his nightly excur
sions for dissipation; introduced by him to his fell
low Priests, who profgate himself, and was
conducted dressed monk, into the sacredf
of the Converts. In fine he introduced her int all
the of dissipation and vice Ia which he
cusomed to be found. Even when he was sent BY his
Bishop abroad, parochal visit Puerto Principe,
thither she had TO go TO CRAFTY his nclinatons
and to witness bis atrocities. Here, poor Rosamond
for this is the of the autboress, poor Rosamond
here saw what but a fend would ever have
thought of perpeatng and what but beast would
have had the immodesty TO do.