PREFACE. 



IN the following pages will be found several German 

 words often repeated ; for much as I dislike the ad- 

 mixture of one language with another, the present 

 case left me without an alternative, the words in ques- 

 tion not having an equivalent in my own tongue. I 

 have therefore employed "Laane," "Latschen," etc., 

 each time any mention is made of these objects, think- 

 ing it was better to do so, than adhere pedantically 

 to some English explicative, which would fail, after 

 all, in conveying the exact meaning. 



The compositions from the pencil of Mr. Horschelt 

 need no praise of mine. The happy arrangement of 

 each small picture speaks for itself; and we both 

 may esteem ourselves fortunate in having found so 

 skilful a hand as Mr. Hohe's to transfer them to the 

 stone. 



