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COLLECTION

OF

GERMAN AUTHORS.

VOL. 29.

THE VULTURE MAIDEN BY W. von HILLERN.

IN ONE VOLUME.

TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

By the same Author,

THE HOUR WILL COME . . . . . 2 vols.

THE

VULTURE MAIDEN

[DIE GEIER-WALLY.]

BY

WILHELMINE von HILLERN.

FROM THE GERMAN

BY

C. BELL AND E. F. POYNTER.

Authorized Edition,

LEIPZIG 1876

BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ.

LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON.
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.

PARIS: C. REINWALD, 15, RUE DES SAINTS PÈRES; THE GALIGNANI
LIBRARY, 224, RUE DE RIVOLI.

The Author reserves the Right of dramatizing this Tale.

TO BERTHOLD AUERBACH, Esq.

Permit me to offer you the fruit that I have gathered in a fieldpeculiarly your own. Under your powerful hand the difficult ground ofGerman peasant-life has yielded up its wealth of poetry; and if others,with myself, now reap in the field tilled by you, it is our first dutyto think of you with gratitude, and to render to you the honour that isrightly yours.

Freiburg in Brisgau, April 1875.

The Author.

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