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ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Dramas in the present volume are among the most striking and beautiful of the German Theatre; and are now selected and published for the use of the Students in Harvard University, because they are found, from experience, to be well fitted to the wants of young persons who are learning the German Language. The first of them,the Mary Stuart of Schiller, originally printed in 1800, is extremely interesting from its subject; and, though written in verse, and in a rich and ornamented diction, is among the easiest works that can be given to a beginner, and may well follow immediately the excellent “German Reader” of Professor Follen. The next, the Tasso of Goethe, published in 1788, has the difficulties that belong to an exquisitely elegant and refined style of dialogue, thought, and feeling; while the last, his Egmont, published in 1787,- has the opposite difficulties that come from the idiomatic construction used in presenting a scene, always to a certain degree familiar, and sometimes confined to the lower orders of the people. The three dramas, therefore, form, as far as so small a volume may, an appropriate help to the study of the German Language, and to the knowledge of German Literature; besides which, the volume, taken together, has none of the disadvantages of a Collection of Extracts and Fragments, since each of the parts of which it is composed is an entire work, exactly as it came from the hands of its author.

Cambridge, Feb. 22, 1833,