Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Die Drei Gerechten Kammacher, Und, Frau Regel Amrain Und Ihr Jungster: Zwei Novelles
The discriminating read the preface last, if at all. This is as it should be, for what the author has to say is of greater importance to the reader than criticism or eulogy by a third party.
Yet there are always a few conscientious souls who read the preface first, because it stands first. What few remarks are here to be made must partake, therefore, both of the nature of an introduction and a farewell.
The dead-line which separates literature from the ephemeral printed product of the day is like the earth's equator, a very real thing in a way yet invisi ble upon close inspection. It is only those editors who present writings close to this literary equator, or, perhaps, on the wrong side of it, who need apologize for their doings. As to Gottfried Keller, der S hakes peare def Novelle, to use Paul Heyse's happy phrase, it may be said he never approached even within hailing distance of the danger line.
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