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Singerman ID#supp1239

The Literary Amaranth; or, Prose and Poetry.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1239

Brooks, Nathan Covington. The Literary Amaranth; or, Prose and Poetry. Philadelphia: Kay and Brother; Baltimore: Cushing and Brother, 1840. 264 p., plates.

Notes

"The Hungarian Princess: An Historical Tale": pp. [99]- 133. Ezra Emmanuel, a native of Palestine, is the greedy father of Jabez and the predictably beautiful Jewess, Miriam, whereas Hillel, his oldest son, is a crusader knight in love with a Hungarian princess. In addition, see the poem, "Lines to a Jewish Shekel" (pp. [183]-85). Rinderknecht 40-1044.