Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/waldfriednovel00auerrich 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. BY THE SAME AUTHOR. _Authorized Editions._ WALDFRIED. A Novel. Translated by SIMON ADLER STERN, 12mo, cloth, $2.00. THE VILLA ON THE RHINE. A Romance. Translated by JAMES DAVIS. With a portrait of the author. 16mo. Leisure Hour Series. 2 vols., $1.25 per vol.; Pocket Edition, four parts, paper, uniform with the Tauchnitz books, 40 cents per part, or $1.50 complete. BLACK FOREST VILLAGE STORIES. Translated by CHARLES GOEPP. Illustrated with fac-similies of the original German wood-cuts. 16mo, Leisure Hour Series, $1.25. THE LITTLE BAREFOOT. A Tale. Translated by ELIZA BUCKMINSTER LEE. Illustrated, 16mo, Leisure Hour Series, $1.25. JOSEPH IN THE SNOW. A Tale. Illustrated, 16mo. Leisure Hour Series, $1.25. _HENRY HOLT & CO._, 25 Bond Street, New York. W A L D F R I E D A N O V E L BY BERTHOLD AUERBACH _T R A N S L A T E D_ BY SIMON ADLER STERN _AUTHOR'S EDITION_ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1874 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by HENRY HOLT, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. Maclauchlan, Stereotyper and Printer, 56, 58 and 60 Park Street, New York. WALDFRIED. BOOK FIRST. CHAPTER I. In a letter bringing me his greetings for the New Year, 1870, my eldest son thus wrote to me from America: "We have been sorely tried of late. Wolfgang, our only remaining child, lay for weeks at death's door. I avoided mentioning this to you before; but now he is out of danger. "'Take me to your father in the forest,' were the first distinct words he uttered after his illness. He is a lusty youth, and inherits his mother's hardy Westphalian constitution. "In his feverish wanderings, he often spoke of you, and also of a great fire, in strange phrases, none of which he can now recall. "He has awakened my own heartfelt desire to return, and now we shall come. We have fully determined to leave in the spring. I lose no time in writing to you of this, because I feel that the daily thought of our meeting again will be fraught with pleasure for both of us.