Willibald Alexis - Walladmor, Vol. I (of 2)

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Many literary men of Russia, Denmark, &c write indifferently in their native or the German languages.

Mr. Schelling: for whom however, without any joke at all, I profess the very highest respect.

Oh! spirit of modern scepticism, to what shocking results art thou leading us! Already have Lycurgus, Romulus, Numa, &c. been resolved into mere allegorized ideas. And a learned friend has undertaken to prove, within the next 50 years, according to the best rules of modern scepsis , that no such banker as Mr. Rothschild ever existed; that the word Rothschild in fact was nothing more than a symbolic expression for a habit of advancing loans at the beginning of the 19th century: which indeed the word itself indicates, if reduced to its roots. I should not be surprized to hear that some man had undertaken to demonstrate the non-existence of Sir Walter Scott: already there are symptoms abroad: for the mysterious author of Waverley has in our own days been detected in the persons of so many poets and historians the most opposite to each other, that by this time his personality must have been evaporated and volatilized into a whole synod of men. - Note of the Dedicator.

Names of persons who have translated one or more of Sir Walter Scott's novels into German.