Schlemihl," was that only daughter who became Lady Duff-Gordon, and
with whom we have made acquaintance in this Library as the
translator of "The Amber Witch."

To make up the tale of pages in this little book without breaking
its uniformity, I have added a translation of the "Hymns to Night"
of Novalis. It is a translation made by myself seven-and-forty
years ago, and printed in a student's magazine that I then edited.
"Novalis" was the name assumed by a poet, Friedrich von Hardenberg,
who died on the 25th March, 1801, aged twenty-nine. He was bred
among the Moravian brethren, and then sent to the University of
Jena. Two years after his marriage to a young wife, Sophie von
Kuhn, she died. That was in 1797. At the same time he lost a
brother who was very dear to him. It was then--four years before
his own death--that he wrote his "Hymns to Night."

H. M.




PETER SCHLEMIHL, THE SHADOWLESS MAN.




INTRODUCTORY EPISTLE FROM
A. VON CHAMISSO TO JULIUS EDWARD HITZIG.