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GUSTAV FREYTAG THEODOR FONTANE

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

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