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DEBIT AND CREDIT.


Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag,

BY L.C.C.


WITH A PREFACE,

BY CHRISTIAN CHARLES JOSIAS BUNSEN,

D.D., D.C.L., D.PH.


NEW YORK:

HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS,

FRANKLIN SQUARE.

1858.




LETTER FROM CHEVALIER BUNSEN.


CHARLOTTENBERG, NEAR HEIDELBERG, _10th October, 1857._

DEAR SIR,--It is now about five months since you expressed to me a wish
that I might be induced to imbody, in a few pages, my views on the
peculiar interest I attached--as you had been informed by a common
friend--to the most popular German novel of the age, Gustav Freytag's