INTRODUCTION.
To the following translations a preface is, indeed, scarcely requisite. There is little more to observe, than that they form but a small portion of a series, long since accumulated on the Translator’s shelves, from which specimens, (mostly in verse,) appeared occasionally in Blackwood’s Magazine,[1] and that they are now printed in consequence of that increasing interest which seems lately to have been excited in favour of German stories.
Not only have such publications been already received with approbation, but several others are announced as in the press, for which change, our
- ↑ Horæ Germanicæ.
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