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                          MRS. A. L. WISTER'S

                 Popular Translations from the German.

                   12mo. Attractively Bound in Cloth.

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   "O THOU, MY AUSTRIA!" By Ossip Schubin.                   $1.25
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   THE ALPINE FAY. By E. Werner.                              1.25
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                            COUNTESS ERIKA'S

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                       TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
                                   OF
                             OSSIP SCHUBIN
                  AUTHOR OF "O THOU, MY AUSTRIA!" ETC.



                                   BY
                           MRS. A. L. WISTER




                              PHILADELPHIA
                        J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
                                  1891






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              Copyright, 1891, by J. B. Lippincott Company
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                        _All rights reserved_.






           Printed By J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.




                         PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR.


A friend returning from a stroll round the globe brought back an odd
volume of my work picked up in San Francisco, translated without my
leave, but proving by its very existence that the American reading
world take a certain interest in my show and its puppets.

Though in a certain sense these unauthorized editions are a picking of
the author's pocket, yet I must confess that I felt rather flattered.

Every one possessing any feeling for modernism must highly prize what
American art and American literature have done and are doing for the
directness, vividness