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No. 1. DANIEL SCHUBART.
Influence of Schubart's persecutions on Schiller's mind. His Birth and Boyhood. Sent to Jena to study Theology: Profligate life: Returns home. Popular as a preacher: Skilful in music. A joyful, piping, guileless mortal. (p. 341.)-Prefers pedagogy to starvation. Marries.
Organist to the Duke of Wurtemberg. Headlong business, amus.e.m.e.nt and dissipation. His poor Wife returns to her Father: Ruin and banishment.
A vagabond life. (343.)-Settles at Augsburg, and sets up a Newspaper: Again a prosperous man: Enmity of the Jesuits. Seeks refuge in Ulm: His Wife and Family return to him. The Jesuits on the watch.
Imprisoned for ten years: Interview with young Schiller. (346.)-Is at length liberated. Joins his Wife at Stuttgard, and reestablishes his Newspaper. Literary enterprises: Death. Summary of his character.
(351.)
No. 2. LETTERS OF SCHILLER TO DALBERG.
Brief account of Dalberg. Schiller's desire to remove to Mannheim.
Adaptation of the _Robbers_ to the stage. (p. 354.)-Struggles to get free from Stuttgard and his Ducal Jailor: Dalberg's friendly help.
Friendly letter to his friend Schwann. (362.)
No. 3. FRIENDs.h.i.+P WITH GOETHE.
Goethe's feeling of the difference in their thoughts and aims: Great Nature _not_ a phantasm of her children's brains. Growing sympathy and esteem, unbroken to the end. (p. 371.)
No. 4. DEATH OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS.
Schiller's historical style. A higher than descriptive power. (p.
375.)
APPENDIX II.
Schiller's Life into German; Author's Note thereon. (p.
380.)-Goethe's introduction (in German), with Four Prints. (393.)
