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Title: The Serapion Brethren,
Vol. I.

Author: Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Translator: Alex. Ewing

Release Date: March 29, 2010 [EBook #31820]

Language: English

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2. All footnotes (5 in number) are listed at the end of the book.

3. [oe] = diphthong oe.

THE SERAPION BRETHREN.

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

LONDON PORTUGAL ST., LINCOLN'S INN.
CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL AND CO.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.
BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER AND CO.

THE SERAPION BRETHREN.

BY

ERNST THEODOR WILHELM HOFFMANN.

Translated from the German

BY

MAJOR ALEX. EWING,

A.P.D.,
TRANSLATOR OF J. P. RICHTER'S "FLOWER, FRUIT, AND THORN PIECES,"
ETC.

VOL. I.

LONDON
GEORGE BELL AND SONS
1908

[_Reprinted from Stereotype plates._]

PREFACE.

Notwithstanding the popularity which several of Hoffmann's tales have
obtained in many different countries, we are not aware of any complete
or accurate translation of his works. In England they have become known
in a very partial form, chiefly by the appearance of a few isolated
tales in association with those of other writers, as in the 'Specimens
of German Romance,' or in Gillies' 'German Stories,' which were
published about 1830. Others are familiar only thro