NOW THAT I AM PUBLISHING, UNDER MY OWN NAME, A NEW EDITION OF THIS BOOK, THE FIRST TO WIN ME FRIENDS IN ANY NUMBER, I DEDICATE IT, GRATEFULLY AND RESPECTFULLY, TO The two parts forming this story are published separately in Denmark; and Part I, which I have called _Cordt_, was first issued anonymously as _The Old Room_, with a preface intended to convey the idea that the work had been written by the heroine of the story. When Part II appeared, under the title of _Cordt’s Son_, in which Fru Adelheid has returned to the old house and the old room, Carl Ewald suppressed this preface. It is so beautiful that it were unfair to deprive the author’s American readers of the joy of it. The Germa…
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