Excerpt from Das Peterle Von Nurnberg: Eine Geschichte Aus Alter Zeit With its plot in no wise out of the ordinary lines of imaginary authorship, the story, characterized by almost classic simplicity and fairy-tale sincerity, progresses with dramatic vividness and develops harmoniously from start to finish, ending with the peals of joyful wedding-bells. But what an abundance and surprising variety of poetic incidents, suggestive pictures, and touching situations, both pathetic and humorous, are interwoven with the altogether unpretentious narrative! It is remarkable how well the author succeeds in depicting incidentally the temporal as well as the spiritual concerns of that time, its domestic and public life, the monastic and scho lastic conditions of the age, and the industrial, commercial, and art-interests of the people together with their habits, pleasures, whims, foibles and fancies, customs and costumes. 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.