VOLUME VIII BERTHOLD AUERBACH JEREMIAS GOTTHELF FRITZ REUTER ADALBERT STIFTER WILHELM HEINRICH RIEHL #THE GERMAN CLASSICS# Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH 1914 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS VOLUME VIII CONTENTS OF VOLUME VIII The Novel of Provincial Life. By Edwin C. Roedder BERTHOLD AUERBACH Little Barefoot. Translated by H.W. Dulcken; revised and abridged by Paul Bernard Thomas JEREMIAS GOTTHELF Uli, The Farmhand. Translations and Synopses by Bayard Quincy Morgan FRITZ REUTER The Bräsig Episodes from _Ut mine Stromtid_. Translated by M.W. Macdowall; edited and abridged by Edmund von Mach ADALBERT STIFTER Rock Crystal. Translated by Lee M. Hollander WILHELM HEINRICH RIEHL Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl. By Otto Heller Field and Forest. Translated by Frances H. King The Eye for Natural Scenery. Translated by Frances H. King The Musical Ear. Translated by Frances H. King The Struggle of the Rococo with the Pigtail. Translated by Frances H. King * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME VIII The Abduction of Prometheus. By Max Klinger Berthold Auerbach. By Hans Meyer Two Coffins were carried away from the little House. By Benjamin Vautier Amrei briskly brought her Pitcher filled with Water. By Benjamin Vautier Tears fell upon the Paternal Coat. By Benjamin Vautier He gave her his Hand for the Last Time. By Benjamin Vautier While she was milking John asked her all kinds of Questions. By Benjamin Vautier Jeremias Gotthelf A New Citizen. By Benjamin Vautier The Bath. By Benjamin Vautier In Ambush. By Benjamin Vautier First Dancing Lessons. By Benjamin Vautier Fritz Reuter. By Wulff Bible Lesson. By Benjamin Vautier Between Dances. By Benjamin Vautier The Bridal Pair at the Civil Marriage Office. By Benjamin Vautier Adalbert Stifter. By Daffinger A Mountain Scene. By H. Reifferscheid Leavetaking of the Bridal Pair. By Benjamin Vautier The Barber Shop. By Benjamin Vautier Wilhelm Heinrich Riehl An Official Dinner in the Country. By Benjamin Vautier At the Sick Bed. By Benjamin Vautier A Village Funeral. By Benjamin Vautier * * * * EDITOR'S NOTE This volume, containing chiefly masterpieces of the Novel of Provincial Life, is illustrated by the principal works of one of the foremost painters of German peasant life, Benjamin Vautier. These picture's have been so arranged as to bring out in natural succession typical situations in the career of an individual from the cradle to the grave. In order not to interrupt this succession, Auerbach's _Little Barefoot_, likewise illustrated by Vautier, has been placed before Gotthelf's _Uli, The Farmhand_, although Gotthelf, and not Auerbach, is to be considered as the real founder of the German village story. The frontispiece, Karl Spitzweg's _Garret Window_, introduces a master of German genre painting who in a later volume will be more fully represented. KUNO FRANCKE.