tact and skill opens or shuts its pages as he sees fit.

To this guardian angel I commit our "Schlemihl." And so, adieu!
FOUQUE.

Neunhausen, May, 1814.




THE STORY WITHOUT AN END




TO MY DAUGHTER



My Dear Child,

The story you love so much in German I dedicate to you in English.
It was in compliance with your earnest wish that other children
might share the delight it has so often afforded you, that I
translated it; so that it is, in some sort, yours of right. Let us
hope that your confident expectations of sympathy in your pleasure
may not be disappointed; or that, if others think the story less
beautiful than you do, they may find compensation in the graceful
designs it has inspired.