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,