HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY

1874

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
HENRY HOLT,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Maclauchlan,
Stereotyper and Printer, 56, 58 and 60 Park Street, New York.

WALDFRIED.

BOOK FIRST.

CHAPTER I.

In a letter bringing me his greetings for the New Year, 1870, my eldest son thus wrote to me from America: