Excerpt from Geschichten Von Deutschen Sta¿dtenGermany is preeminently a country of stories. While her modern poets keep abreast of the advancing spirit of the times, her people cling tenaciously to their numberless traditions and their historical and mythological legends, which are the creation, not of one individual genius, but of the German nation as a whole, and which form the connect ing links between the ever-changing present and the ever stable past If the author may claim for this Reader but a single new feature, it is, that through it the student will become familiar with-the real and essential leading spirit pervading Germany.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.