To _THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER_, NIRAN BATES, _AND OF MY MOTHER_, SUSAN THAXTER BATES, I Dedicate this Book; _profoundly conscious that it can bring to me no other satisfaction or honor so great as the keeping in remembrance the fact that I am their son_. _It must be evident to the most careless observer that the treatment of the theme with which the present story deals would probably not have taken the form it has, had "Undine" not been written before it; but it is to be hoped that "Albrecht" will not on that account be set down as an attempt either to imitate or to rival that im…
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