OF FOREIGN ROMANCE: COMPRISING ORIGINAL TRANSLATIONS FROM THE MOST CELEBRATED CONTINENTAL AUTHORS. VOL. V. CONTAINING GODWAY CASTLE; OR, THE FORTUNES OF A KING'S DAUGHTER. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF MADAME PALZOW. LONDON: BRUCE AND WYLD, 84, FARRINGDON STREET. GODWAY CASTLE; OR, THE FORTUNES OF A KING'S DAUGHTER. AN HISTORICAL ROMANCE. EDITED FROM THE PAPERS OF THE DUCHESS OF NOTTINGHAM, BY MADAME PALZOW. Translated from the German, BY FRANCES KINDERLEY BARNARD. LONDON: BRUCE AND WYLD, 84, FARRINGDON STREET. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE. The following work, now first presented to the English public, is translated from the German of the accomplished Madame Palzow, who, in the opinion of most of her countrymen, stands at the head of this class of literature. During a recent residence in Germany, the original was recommended to the translator, as the best specimen of the modern German romance; and much surpise was expressed, that it had not been rendered into English; since, besides its healthy and moral tone, the stirring nature of its incidents, and its beautiful touches of natural feeling, the scene of the story lies in our own country. Scott has familiarized the world to the mixture of fiction with history; and Madame Palzow has followed his example, by interweaving with her historical facts, many characters and circumstances not to be met with in authentic history; but she has done this with so much skill that we do not feel our reverence for truth at all intruded upon. Perhaps there is no period of our own history more interesting than that during which the weak-minded and unfittingly educated James of Scotland swayed the sceptre of England, which, in the hands of Elizabeth, had become so glorious at home, and so formidable abroad. It is true that the tragedy which terminated in the death of Charles I., had long been preparing; but the unfortunate ignorance of James with respect to the mental qualities of his English subjects, his carelessness in not striving to conform to their |