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Title: Memories

Author: Max Muller

Release Date: December 29, 2004 [eBook #14521]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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E-text prepared by Al Haines, with thanks to David Bridson for checking
the German text

Transcriber's note: This book contains several brief passages in German,
each of which is followed by an English translation.
Several of the German words contain "o-umlaut",
which has been rendered as "oe". Several others
contain the German "Eszett" character, which has
been rendered as "ss".

MEMORIES

A Story of German Love

Translated from the German of

MAX MULLER

by

George P. Upton

Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.

1902

CONTENTS.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FIRST MEMORY
SECOND MEMORY
THIRD MEMORY
FOURTH MEMORY
FIFTH MEMORY
SIXTH MEMORY
SEVENTH MEMORY
LAST MEMORY

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The translation of any work is at best a difficult task, and must
inevitably be prejudicial to whatever of beauty the original possesses.
When the principal charm of the original lies in its elegant
simplicity, as in the case of the "Deutsche Liebe," the difficulty is
still further enhanced. The translator has sought to reproduce the
simple German in equally simple English, even at the risk of
transferring German idioms into the English text.

The story speaks for itself. Without plot, incidents or situations, it
is nevertheless dramatically constructed, unflagging in interest,
abounding in beauty, grace and pathos, and filled with the tenderest
feeling of sympathy, which will go straight to the heart of every lover
of the ideal in the world of humanity, and every worshipper in the
world of nature. Its brief essays upon theology, literature and social
habits, contained in the dialogues between the hero and the heroine,
will commend themselves to the thoughtful reader by their clearness and
beauty of