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Title: The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

Author: Various

Release Date: December 26, 2004 [EBook #14470]

Language: English

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VOLUME XII

GUSTAV FREYTAG
THEODOR FONTANE

[Illustration: FREDERICK THE GREAT PLAYING THE FLUTE
_From the Painting by Adolph von Menzel_]

THE GERMAN CLASSICS
OF
THE NINETEENTH AND
TWENTIETH CENTURY

Masterpieces of German Literature
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
KUNO FRANCKE, PH.D., LL.D., LITT.D.
Professor of the History of German Culture,
Emeritus, and Honorary Curator of the Germanic Museum,
Harvard University

ASSISTANT EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M.
Professor of German, Harvard University

In Twenty Volumes Illustrated

ALBANY, N.Y.
J.B. LYON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1914

CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS

VOLUME XII

Special Writers

ERNEST F. HENDERSON, Ph.D., L.H.D., Author of _The History of Germany
in the Middle Ages; Short History of Germany_, etc.: The Life of
Gustav Freytag.

WILLIAM A. COOPER, A.M., Associate Professor of German, Leland
Stanford Junior University: The Life of Theodor Fontane.

Translators

ERNEST F. HENDERSON, Ph.D., L.H.D., Author of _The History of Germany
in the Middle Ages; Short History of Germany_, etc.: The Journalists.

WILLIAM A. COOPER, A.M., Associate Professor of German, Leland
Stanford Junior University: Effi Briest; Extracts from "My Childhood
Days."

E.H. BABBITT, A.B., Assistant Professor of German, Tufts College:
Doctor Luther; Frederick the Great.

MARGARETE MUeNSTERBERG:

Sir Ribbeck of Ribbeck; The Bridge by the Tay.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XII

GUSTAV FREYTAG

The Life of Gustav Freytag. By Ernest F. Henderson

The Journalists. Translated by Ernest F. Henderson

Doctor Luther.