[Footnote 9: _Translator's note_. "It is the custom in Scandinavia, as with us, for friends to exchange presents, good wishes, and visits on Christmas-day and New-year's-day..... If 'St. Nicholas' in the Rhenish Provinces, 'Knecht Ruprecht' in Northern and Central Germany announce the arrival of these holidays to children, whom they reward or punish according to circumstances, the 'Julklapp,' takes their place in Pomerania, bestows welcome gifts, and recalls the memory of the highest god of our forefathers." From "Unsere Vorzeit" by Dr. W. Wagner, vol. I. part II. page 138.] [Footnote 10: _Translator's note_. Knecht Ruprecht.] [Footnote 11: _Translator's note_. Bad Stuer. Stuer belongs to the von Flotow family, one of the oldest families in Mecklenburg, and the hydropathic establishment was put up by Rausse who has written a number of well known books on hydropathy. J. Duboc's "Auf Reuter'schem Boden."] [Footnote 12: _Translator's note_. "Quey," Scotch for heifer, used here because it was the only word of that meaning into which "fée" could be changed. Caroline makes "kleine Fée"--"lütt Veih."] [Footnote 13: _Translator's note_. This story is founded on fact, and during Reuter's last visit to Stuer (from the 13th of December 1868 till the 29th of January 1869) he discovered to his great amusement that he had been given the very room in which the director of the establishment told him the hero of the tale had been attacked by a neighbour's bees while he was lying helpless in the "packing" sheets. Sec Duboc's "Auf Reuter'schem Boden" in Westermann's "Monats-Hefte."] [Footnote 14: _Translator's note_. A yellow flower.] [Footnote 15: _Translator's note_. A common saying in Mecklenburg, the origin of which is unknown.] END OF VOL. I. GERMAN AUTHORS TAUCHNITZ EDITION. On the Heights by _B. Auerbach_. Translated by F. E. Bunnett. 3 vols. In the Year '13 by _Fritz Reuter_. Translated from the Platt-Deutsch by Charles Lee Lewes, 1 vol. Faust by _Goethe_. From the German by John Anster, LL. D. 1 vol. Undine, Sintram and other Tales by _Fouqué_. Translated by F. E. Bunnett. 1 vol. L'Arrabiata and other Tales by _Paul Heyse_. From the German by Mary Wilson, 1 vol. The Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and other Tales by _H. Zschokke_. From the German by M. A. Faber. 1 vol. Nathan the Wise and Emilia Galotti by _G. E. Lessing_. The former translated by W. Taylor, the latter by Charles Lee Lewes, 1 vol. Behind the Counter [Handel und Wandel] by _F. W. Hackländer_. From the German by M. Howitt. 1 vol. Three Tales by _W. Hauff_. From the German by M. A. Faber. 1 vol. Joachim von Kamern and Diary of a poor young Lady by _Maria Nathusius_. From the German by Miss Thompson. 1 vol. Poems from the German of _F. Freiligrath_. 1 vol. Gabriel, a Story of the Jews in Prague by _S. Kohn_. From the German by Arthur Milman, M.A. 1 vol.