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Title: Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I.

Author: Gustav Freytag

Translator: Georgiana Malcolm

Release Date: September 22, 2010 [EBook #33794]

Language: English

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PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.

* * * * *

VOL. I.

PICTURES

OF

GERMAN LIFE

In the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries.

BY
GUSTAV FREYTAG

Translated from the Original by
MRS. MALCOLM.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION.--IN TWO VOLUMES_.

VOL. I.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.
1862.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The great interest which these graphic Pictures of Life in Germany have
created in that country, has induced me to translate them. The object
of the distinguished author seems to have been, to convey a lesson, a
warning, and at the same time an encouragement to his countrymen,
derived from the experience of the past; whilst he demonstrates to
other nations how it is, that a people so superior in intellectual
power, has remained so far behind in social and p