Critical and miscellaneous essays
Subtitle: collected and republished (First time, 1839; final, 1869)
By: By Thomas Carlyle ...
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter. State of German literature. Life and writings of Werner. Goethe's Helena. Goethe. Appendix: I. Preface to first edition of Meister's apprenticeship. Preface and introductions to the book called German romance. Preface to second edition of Meister's apprenticeship and travels. II. Fractions.; title: v. 2. Burns. Life of Heyne. German playwrights. Voltaire. Novalis. Signs of the times. On history. Appendix: Jean Paul Friedrich Richter's review of Madame De Stael's 'Allemagne.' Schiller, Goethe and Madame De Stael.; title: v. 3. Jean Paul Friedrich Richter again. Luther's Psalm. Schiller. The Nibelungen lied. German literature of the XIV. and XV. centuries. Taylor's Historic survey of German poetry.; title: v. 4. Characteristics. Goethe's portrait. Death of Goethe. Biography. Boswell's Life of Johnson. Goethe's works. Corn-law rhymes. On history again. Appendix: The tale. Novelle.; title: v. 5. Diderot. Count Cagliostro. Death of Edward Irving. The diamond necklace. Mirabeau.; title: v. 6. Parliamentary history of the French revolution. Sir Walter Scott. Varnhagen von Ense's Memoirs. Chartism. Petition on the copyright bill. The sinking of the Vengeur. Baillie the Covenanter.; title: v. 7. Dr. Francia. An election to the Long Parliament. The nigger question. Two hundred and fifty years ago. The opera. National exhibition of Scottish portraits. The prinzenraub. Inaugural address at Edinburgh, 2d April 1866. Shooting Niagara: and after? Latter stage of the French-German war, 1870-71. Index to Miscellanies.