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Title: Tales from the German. Volume I.
Arwed Gyllenstierna

Author: Carl Franz van der Velde

Translator: Nathaniel Greene

Release Date: May 22, 2010 [EBook #32478]

Language: English

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Transcriber's Notes:

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2. Footnote is located at the end of the book.
3. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].

TALES

FROM THE GERMAN

TRANSLATED

BY NATHANIEL GREENE.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:
AMERICAN STATIONERS' COMPANY,
JOHN B. RUSSELL.

1837.

BOSTON:
Samuel N. Dickinson, Printer,
52, Washington Street.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

Most men, whatever the nature of their avocations, have, or may have,
occasional hours of leisure and relaxation. To spend those hours
profitably as well as pleasantly, should be a study: to spend them
harmlessly, is a duty. Among other recent employments of the little
leisure afforded me by absorbing official occupations, has been an
attempt to gain some knowledge of the language and literature of
Germany; and among the results of that attempt, are manuscript
translations of several pleasant and interesting tales from various
German authors, some of which I have been led to suppose might prove
acceptable to our reading public. Those now presented are taken almost
at random from the thirteen volumes of Van der Velde's works, of which
they are a fair specimen. Their principal value consists in their
faithful illustration of interesting portions of history not gene