The new universal story-teller; or, A modern picture of human life: Consisting of a greater variety of valuable matter calculated for the pleasure and improvement of readers of every class, than was ever given in any book of the kind; and including a complete collection of genuine and entertaining stories, tales, narrations, anecdotes, essays, histories, fables, adventures, allegories, visions, maxims, romances, relations, memoirs, novels, criticisms, wonderful occurrences, remarkable characters, singular events, modern sketches, lives, poems, &c. &c. among which, besides thoses articles carefully selected from the most approved English authors, and from writers of distinguished eminence in other languages, are interspersed many original pieces in prose and verse. By William Henry Melmoth, Esq.