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copy of the Breitmann Ballads
The Breitmann Ballads
by
Charles G. Leland.
1889
TO THE MEMORY
OF THE LATE
NICHOLAS
TRÜBNER
This Work is Dedicated
by
Charles G. Leland

This Project Gutenberg Edition
is dedicated to:
Poul and Karen Anderson
without whose inspiration
it would not
exist.
Geoff Kidd
Krista Rourke
Ad Musan.
"Est mihi schoena etenim et praestanti corpore liebsta

Haec sola est mea Musa meoque regierit in Herza.
Huic me ergebo
ipsum meaque illi abstatto geluebda,
Huic ebrensaulas aufrichto
opfroque Geschenka,
Hic etiam absingo liedros et carmina scribo."
0. Rapsodia Andra, Leipzig, 17th Century Preface To the Edition of
1889.

Though twenty years have passed since the first appearance of the
"Breitmann Ballads" in a collected form, the author is deeply gratified
-- and not less sincerely grateful to the public -- in knowing that Hans
still lives in many memories, that he continues to be quoted when
writers wish to illustrate an
exuberantly joyous "barty" or ladies so
very fashionably dressed as to recall "de maidens mit nodings on," and
that no
inconsiderable number of those who are "beginning German"

continue to be addressed by sportive friends in the Breitmann dialect
as a compliment to their capacity as linguists. For as a young medical
student is asked by anxious intimates if he has got as far as salts, I have
heard inquiries addressed to tyros in Teutonic whether they had
mastered these songs. As I have
realised all of this from newspapers
and novels, even during the past few weeks, and have learned that a
new and very expensive edition of the work has just appeared in
America, I trust that I may be pardoned for a self-gratulation, which is,
after all really gratitude to those who have demanded of the English

publisher another issue. My chief pleasure in this -- though it be
mingled with sorrow -- is, that it enables me to dedicate to the memory
of my friend the late NICHOLAS TRÜBNER the most complete
edition of the Ballads ever printed. I can think of no more appropriate
tribute to his memory, since he was not only the first publisher of the

work in England, but collaborated with the author in editing it so far as
to greatly improve and extend the whole. This is more fully set forth in
the Introduction to the Glossary, which is all his own. The memory of
the deep personal interest which he took in the poems, his delight in
being their publisher, his fondness for reciting them, is and ever will be
to me indescribably touching; such experiences being rare in any life.
He was an immensely general and yet thorough scholar, and I am
certain that I never met with any man in my life who to such an
extensive bibliographical knowledge added so much familiarity with
the contents of books. And he was familiar with nothing which did not
interest him, which is rare indeed among men who MUST know
something of thousands of works -- in fact, he was a wonderful and
very original book in himself, which, if it had ever been written out and
published, would have never died. His was one of the instances which