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Transcriber's Notes:

   1. Page scan source:
      http://www.archive.org/details/vulturemaidendie00hilluoft.






                               COLLECTION

                                   OF

                            GERMAN AUTHORS.

                                VOL. 29.

                           *   *   *   *   *

                 THE VULTURE MAIDEN BY W. von HILLERN.

                             IN ONE VOLUME.






                           TAUCHNITZ EDITION.

                          By the same Author,

                  THE HOUR WILL COME..... 2 vols.






                                  THE

                             VULTURE MAIDEN

                           [DIE GEIER-WALLY.]

                                   BY

                        WILHELMINE von HILLERN.

                            FROM THE GERMAN

                                   BY

                       C. BELL AND E. F. POYNTER.


                         _Authorized Edition_,




                              LEIPZIG 1876

                          BERNHARD TAUCHNITZ.

           LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE & RIVINGTON.
                  CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.

      PARIS: C. REINWALD, 15, RUE DES SAINTS PERES; THE GALIGNANI
                      LIBRARY, 224, RUE DE RIVOLI.

       _The Author reserves the Right of dramatizing this Tale_.






                       TO BERTHOLD AUERBACH, Esq.


Permit me to offer you the fruit that I have gathered in a field
peculiarly your own. Under your powerful hand the difficult ground of
German peasant-life has yielded up its wealth of poetry; and if others,
with myself, now reap in the field tilled by you, it is