Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/talesofcaravanin00haufrich TALES OF THE CARAVAN, INN, AND PALACE. TALES OF THE CARAVAN, INN, AND PALACE. BY WILLIAM HAUFF. WITH THE ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY EDWARD L. STOWELL. CHICAGO: JANSEN, McCLURG, & COMPANY. 1882. COPYRIGHT, JANSEN, MCCLURG & COMPANY. 1881. PRINTED BY DONNELLEY, GASSETTE & LOYD. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. In introducing to American readers these charming and unique Tales, a few details may properly be given of their author's life and literary work. The record, though brief, is one of unusual interest. Wilhelm Hauff was born at Stuttgart, Germany, in 1802, and received his education at Tuebingen. He graduated from the University, in 1824, with the degree of Doctor of Philosophy; and for the following two years filled the position of tutor in a nobleman's family. It was during the leisure hours afforded by this occupation that he composed the greater part of the works upon which his fame rests. In 1826 he published his "_Maerchenalmanach auf das Jahr 1826, fuer Soehne und Toechter gebildeter Staende_," a translation of which is herewith tendered the American public, under the changed and abbreviated title of: "Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace." In the same year, and closely following the "Fairy Tales," came "_Mittheilungen aus den Memoiren des Satan_," "_Der Mann im Monde_," a second volume of "Satan's Memoirs," and a collection of short tales. These volumes appeared in such rapid succession as to obscure for a time the brilliancy of the "Fairy Tales;" but later editions of them acquired a widespread circulation, while their popularity is so constantly on the increase as to suggest the thought that in time they may prove a formidable rival of the "Arabian Nights," in the regards of the young, the world over.