Debit and Credit, by Gustav Freytag. Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by L. C. C. with a preface by Christian Charles Josias Bunsen. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. 1858.
According to wikipedia:
[Soll und Haben] was hailed as one the best German novel of its day, noted for its sturdy but unexaggerated realism, and in many parts highly humorous. Its main purpose is the recommendation of the German middle class as the soundest element in the nation…
Gustav Freytag (1816–1895) was a dramatist and novelist.
“L. C. C.” is “L. C. Cummings” according to a bibliographic record at the University of Virginia. No information is available on L. C. C.
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