While the publisher does not reveal sources, the probabilities are that this collection, like Hoffmann's Fairy Tales (1857), was translated through a French intermediary version. This is the first English appearance in book form for many of these stories and the only appearance for a couple. The translation, however, is very bad. Several of the stories have been rewritten and do not represent Hoffmann's work."- Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction
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