CONTENTS.

TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
FIRST MEMORY
SECOND MEMORY
THIRD MEMORY
FOURTH MEMORY
FIFTH MEMORY
SIXTH MEMORY
SEVENTH MEMORY
LAST MEMORY



TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.

The translation of any work is at best a difficult task, and must
inevitably be prejudicial to whatever of beauty the original possesses.
When the principal charm of the original lies in its elegant
simplicity, as in the case of the "Deutsche Liebe," the difficulty is
still further enhanced. The translator has sought to reproduce the
simple German in equally simple English, even at the risk of
transferring German idioms into the English text.

The story speaks for itself. Without plot, incidents or situations, it
is nevertheless dramatically constructed, unflagging in interest,