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from their originals. Madame Naubert is more akin in her genius to Musäus, though a spirit of an inferior order; her materials are generally of the light and playful kind; or, if not, she makes them so by the manner in which she works them up. Laun is the historian of ghost-stories, which have really occurred but which have subsequently been found capable of rational explanation; a translation of three or four of his tales has lately been published by Ackermann; the work is well executed and affords much wholesome food for the over-credulous. Grimm is the collector of Nursery Tales, and as such is well known to the English reader. Lothar has a volume on the plan of Ottmar’s the most essential difference being its inferiority. On the same principle are two volumes of Popular Tales, published at Eisenach, without the author’s name,