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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 our first duty
to think of you with gratitude, and to render to you the honour that is
rightly yours