HEINRICH HEINE - Repositories

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EDITOR'S PREFACE.
Various volumes of selections from
Heine's prose have been published in
English — notably the excellent one of
Mr. Snodgrass, to which I hereby
acknowledge my indebtedness; and
numerous volumes of selections from
Heine's i^erse have appeared: tlie present
collection combines prose and verse
in about equal proportions, something
like an all-round presentment of the
author being thus given in a single
volume. In this respect the book will,
I think, be found to be (at any rate, in
English) unique; and this uniqueness
should prove an additional excuse for
its existence. The incorporation in
it of the sympathetic yet judicial —
if, perhaps, on the whole not quite
thoroughly satisfactory — essay of Mr.
Arnold must greatly enhance its value.
Also, some of the illustrations used
have, I believe, never hitherto been
placed before English-readers.
Boston, 1892.
NEWELL DUNBAB.