Excerpt from Tales From Blackwood: Being the Most Famous Series of Stories Ever Published T the close of February 1848 I was in berg. My original intention had been to pass a couple of days there, on my way to Munich that being, I thought, as much time as could reasonably be spared for so small a city, beckoned as my foot steps were to the Bavarian Athens, of whose glories of ancient art and German Renaissance I had formed expectations the most exaggerated - expectations fatal to any perfect enjoyment, and certain to be disap pointed, however great the actual merit of Munich might be. But after two days at Nuremberg, I was so deeply interested in its antique sequestered life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.