VOL. I

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D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

549 AND 551 BROADWAY
1878

***It has been decided to omit from this translation the poems which are scattered through the novel in the German. A few trifling changes in certain passages have been made necessary by this omission; and the translator has in two or three cases very slightly condensed the text.


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