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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Hackländer (1816–1877)

Hackländer, Friedrich Wilhelm von (hāk’len-der). A German romance-writer and humorist; born in 1816; died in 1877. Among his writings, based in many cases on his own experiences as merchant and soldier, are: ‘Scenes of Military Life’; ‘The Soldier’s Life in Peace’; ‘Traffic and Trade’ (Handel und Wandel); ‘Anonymous Stories’; ‘Pilgrimage to Mecca’; ‘Pictures of Life’; ‘Forbidden Fruit.’