Stories From Four Languages Author:Walter Brooks General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1905 Original Publisher: I. Kimball Subjects: Fiction Fiction (Selections: Extracts, etc.) Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Science Fiction / Short Stories Fiction / Short Stories Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It h... more »as no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Foreword TN the following translations the indulgence of the reader is craved for what may appear to be a slavish adherence to the foreign text. It has seemed unwise, however, either to add new colors to the pictures or to attempt to restore their delicate tints necessarily marred by the transfer to fresh canvas. EIGHT STORIES FROM DIE LETZTE STROPHE . FROM THE GERMAN OF Irma Goeringer The Housekeeping Book The Parting When The Flowers Fade Love Springtime Autumn Flannel Folk-Legend TRANSLATION OF LETTER FROM FRAU IRMA GOER1NGER TO MR. WALTER BROOKS My Dear Sir : II is hardly a year since I first surrendered to the -world the tiny child of my pen. My intimate circle, the critics and the general public as well, gave these short, unpretentious stories an unusually friendly reception, and by so doing strengthened the courage of the authoress for new work. You, my dear sir, are about to assist in making known " Die Letzte Strophe " to a people speaking a different language -- o nation which has always had my deepest regard. I am more than pleased, and thank you heartily. My little stories are intended to advocate no theory they are not sermons, nor are they for or against the morals of the times. They are but fragments from life, seen with the eye of a connoisseur, and told with the gentle and forgiving voice of a woman. Their father is the longing for a life of freedom, and of highest truth ; the...« less