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FOUQUE'S GERMAN TALES.
Undine, a Tale, and Sintram and his Companions, a Tale.
From the German of La Motte Fouqué. 1 neat volume,
very handsomely printed on fine paper. Price 50 cents.
“A beautifully romantic tale of the highest excellence.”
—Conversations
Lexicon.
“A delightful tale, full of depth of thought and true poetic feeling.”
—Sir J.
Macintosh.
“This exquisite tale is quite a literary pet in Germany.”
—Thomas Carlyle.
“Fouqué's romances I always recommend, especially the wild, graceful,
and touching Undine.”
—Sarah Austin.
“The style and execution of this delightful romance are very graceful.”
—
Hawkins' Germany.
“Undine is indeed a very charming tale: it displays delicacy blended with
great power, a heart-born truthfulness, and a divine spirit. Beauty and poetry
discover themselves in every page; it has, in fact, become a standard work in
the department of the classical romance, and will never fall into oblivion.”
—
Thimm's Liter. of Germany.
“The faultless completeness of Undine.”
—Foreign Quart. Review.
“It may well be doubted whether the wide world's treasury of faëry lore
contains a more exquisite gem.”
—London Athenæum.
“The `Undine' of Fouqué is too widely known and universally admired to
require a word of commendation at this day.”
—Broadway Journal.
“No tale ever found more acceptance than Undine.... It is a harmonious
expression of the two-fold life of man; it has the frolic and whimsical grace of
childhood, with the pathetic energy of experience. It would win and touch
the worldling, while it embodies the thought of the sage.”
—Tribune.
“Undine is a most captivating romance, in which the natural and supernatural
are so delightfully blended that the reader is easily and agreeably reconciled
to this latter peculiarity in German literature.”
—Albion.
“We cannot illustrate the general character of the story of Sintram better
than by comparing it to the poem of Thalaba. We have the same high-pitched
tone of religious enthusiasm, the same perpetual combat with the force and
fraud of supernatural enemies and the same ultimate success.”
—Foreign
Quart. Review.
“Sintram is a work of singular and curious merit. There is a wild strangeness
in the story which fascinates the reader, and which delights while it
surprises.”
—N. Y. Commer. Adv.
“Sintram' is a beautifully wild, mysterious, and startling tale.”
—Broadway
Journal.
“Sintram is a wild and pleasing tale.”
—North American.
“Sintram is a capital tale founded on divers traditions of Germanic customs
in war, festivity, &c.”
—Albion.
“This is a work of strong dramatic interest, with a moral of the highest
character; it requires only to be known to become a great favorite.”
—N. Y
Morning News.
“We like `Sintram' much, and think it must soon become a general favorite.”
—True Sun.
“The second tale, `Sintram,' is a most worthy companion to `Undine,' and
we cannot but feel greatly surprised that it has never before been reprinted
here. It only requires to be known to be very generally recommended.”
—
Evening Gazette.
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