FRAGMENTS FROM GERMAN PROSE WRITERS. TRANSLATED BY SARAH AUSTIN. WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF THE AUTHORS. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, No. 200 BROADWAY. 1841. 07-26-44 23% PREFACE. I CANNOT Send this little volume into the world without cautioning my readers against a misapprehension of its character and purpose. It would be unjust to German literature to regard it as a selection. That word implies more of choice and order than I have been able to bestow. Many of these fragments were translated some years ago from books which chance threw in my way, and without any view to their publication; they were given to friends, who were curious to known what inducement there was to study the German language, and thus found their way into several numbers of a magazine. It has been frequently suggested to me, that a reprint of them, with additions, in a more convenient and durable form, would not be unacceptable to the English public, among whom a curiosity concerning the matter and form of German literature is great 378612 |
