CASSELL, PETTER, & GALPIN,

LONDON, PARIS, AND NEW YORK.

To

ELLEN FRANCES GRENSIDE.

I HAVE dedicated this book to you, dear Ellen, as you have so often asked me to write it.

I hope that it will interest you and other English girls, and that you will at any rate understand how thoroughly happy we all were at school in Germany.

JEANIE HERING.