G. P. PUTNAM'S SCNS PUBLICATIONS. 7 BY-WAYS OF NATURE AND LIFE. BY CLARENCE DEMING. A series of essays covering a wide variety of topics. "These letters are characterized by all the grace, elegance, and feeling which made Matthew Arnold name Newman as the first of living writers of English prose."-Critic. "Fresh, vigorous, and always interesting."-Westminster Review. 8 CUBAN SKETCHES. By JAMES W. Steele. "The book gives a well-written tale of topics which are of interest both to tourists and to those who enjoy travelling at their own firesides."-Christian Register. "Well-written, vivacious, and realistic pictures." "One of the brightest and cleverest of the many books which have been written about Cuba."-Boston Transcript. 9 PICTURES AND LEGENDS FROM NORMANDY AND BRITTANY. By KATHERINE S. and THOMAS MACQUOID. With thirty-four illustrations. The well-known author of "Patty" has interwoven with some fascinating narra、 tives of travel a selection of Norman and Breton stories and legends which are very quaint and characteristic, and her husband and fellow-traveller has contributed a series of charming pencil sketches of the scenery and the people. 10 CANOEING IN KANUCKIA. The Haps and Mishaps on Sea and Shore of the Statesman, the Editor, the Artist, and the Scribbler. By C. L. NORTON and JOHN HABBERTON. Very fully illustrated. Second edition, with supplementary chapter, being details of canoes constructed down to 1886. "A more enjoyable book cannot well be imagined. It makes one think of summer, of rest, of recreation, of unpremeditated and unrestricted fun."-Albany Argus. 11 THE GREEKS OF TO-DAY. By Hon. CHARLES K. TUCKERMAN, late Minister Resident of the United States at Athens. Third edition. "No one can read this book without having his interest greatly increased in this brave, brilliant, and in every way remarkable people."-N. Y. Times. 12 UP THE RHINE. By THOS. HOOD. With two steel engravings, and with the author's original illustrations on wood. 13 WHIMS AND ODDITIES. BY THOS. HOOD. Illustrated. G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, Publishers. NEW YORK: 27 and 92 West 23d Street. LONDON: 27 King William St., Strand. 6 STUDIES IN GERMAN LITERATURE BY BAYARD TAYLOR WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE H. BOKER NEW YORK & LONDON The Knickerbocker Press 1891 HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY GIFT OF MRS. HORACE VAN EVEREN MAY 31 1932 COPYRIGHT BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS 1879 The Knickerbocker Press, New York INTRODUCTION. It was the known intention of Bayard Taylor to prepare the material which composes the following work for publication. A partial arrangement for that purpose had been made between him and the present publishers. Had he lived to complete his plan, doubtless the form of the matter would have been changed, by adapting it to the reader rather than the hearer, and the scope of the whole work would have been enlarged and, here and there, elaborated, so as to complete a design which was necessarily restricted by the brief limits of time prescribed to a course of lectures. However much additional interest might have been given to the work, had Taylor lived to carry out his purpose, the editors felt themselves to be unauthorized to attempt changes so serious, which might have left upon the volume the impress of their literary style and opinions rather than those of the actual author. Nothing beyond the corrections of verbal errors and of over |