Folk-Lore and Legends: Germany [Folklore]

New York and London: White and Allen, 1889. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing's copy, with his bookplate on front endpaper (these were purchased from a family library in Henderson Harbor, NY, near his birthplace in Watertown, which included many other works owned by him). Board corners rubbed, pages foxed. 1889 Hard Cover. xv, 184 pp. An anthology of folk tales collected from various German sources. Includes: Gaffer Death; The Legend of Paracelsus; Hans in Luck; The Grey Mare in the Garret; The Water Spirit; Peter Klaus; The Legend of Rheineck; The Cellar of the Old Knights in the Kyffhauser; The Fisherman and His Wife; The Mouse Tower; The Dancers; The Little Shroud; The Arch Rogue; Brother Merry; Fastrada; The Jew in the Bush; The Elves; The Conclave of Corpses; Legends of Rubezahl , or Number-Nip; The Hunter Hackelnberg and the Tut-Osel; The Alraun; The Goose-Girl; Hans Jagenteufel; The Waits of Bremen; The Flaming Castle; The Monks at the Ferry Doctor All-Wise; The White Maiden.