LONDON,
HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER,
GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1839.
LONDON: PRINTED BY J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.
EDITOR'S NOTICE.
The Editor feels that he stands very much in the same position as the man who plies at the door of the exhibition of some historical picture or panorama, and who is ready to assure his visitors that the exhibition is quite worthy their notice, and that they will neither lose their time nor their money in inspecting it. Although, in this instance, he really has no other merit than that of being trumpeter to the show, yet he can in honesty assert, that, what he has been called upon to read he sincerely approves, and maintains that the translator of this work merits the approbation and patronage of the public for having brought to its notice, and adapted to its reading, a story full of historical interest, of graphic incidents, of good moral tendency, and true in the illustration of the national manners of Germany in the sixteenth century.
J. M.
London, March 25, 1839.