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THIS 1886 CROWELL & COMPANY COLLECTIBLE VOLUME FEATURES THE FOLLOWING: EXTENSIVE ANNOTATIONS BY F.H.HEDGE; TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MISS SWANWICK; AND, IN THE INTRODUCTION, THE FOLLOWING EXPLANATORY STATEMENT: "THE NOTION OF A FORMAL COMPACT WIRH A PERSONAL FIEND, ONCE SO PREVALENT, HAD IN THE MIDDLE AGES A SPECIAL APPLICATION TO SUCH AS WERE VERSED BEYOND THE MARK OF THEIR TIMES IN THE MYSTERIES OF PHYSICAL SCIENCE . . . DR. FAUSTUS, OF GERMAN TRADITION, WAS ONE OF THOSE TO WHOM THIS SUSPICION ATTACHED." DR. FAUSTUS DID, IN FACT EXIST AND, BY HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS, BOASTED THAT BY HIS MAGIC ARTS HE HAD PROCURED THE VICTORY IN THE BATTLE OF PAVIA, 1525, FOR CHARLES V. FACTS AND HISTORICAL REFERENCES HAVING TO DO WITH THIS WORK ABOUND ON THESE PAGES.
