The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. III

The German Classics of The
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Title: The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,
Vol. III Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. In
Twenty Volumes
Author: Kuno Francke (Editor-in-Chief)
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VOLUME III

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FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER

THE GERMAN CLASSICS
Masterpieces of German Literature
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

IN TWENTY VOLUMES
ILLUSTRATED

THE GERMAN PUBLICATION SOCIETY NEW YORK

1914

CONTENTS OF VOLUME III
Life of Schiller. By Calvin Thomas
POEMS[1]
To the Ideal The Veiled Image at Saïs The Ideal and The Actual Life
Genius Votive Tablets (Selections) The Maiden from Afar The Glove
The Diver The Cranes of Ibycus Thee Words of Belief The Words of
Error The Lay of the Bell The German Art Commencement of the New
Century Cassandra Rudolph of Hapsburg
DRAMAS
Introduction to Wallenstein's Death. By William H. Carruth
The Death of Wallenstein. Translated by S. T. Coleridge
Introduction to William Tell. By William H. Carruth
William Tell. Translated by Sir Theodore Martin, K.C.B.
Homage of the Arts. Translated by A. I. du P. Coleman
HISTORY AND LITERATURE
The Thirty Years' War--Last Campaigns of Gustavus Adolphus.
Translated by Rev. A. J. W. Morrison
On the Use of the Chorus in Tragedy. Translated by A. Lodge
Schiller's Correspondence with Goethe. Translated by L. Dora Schmitz

ILLUSTRATIONS--VOLUME III

Milton and His Daughters. By Michael von Munkacsy
Schiller. By C. Jäger
Schiller's Father and Mother
Schiller's House in Weimar and Birthplace in Marbach
Monument to Schiller in Berlin. By Reinhold Begas
Military Academy in Stuttgart and the Theatre in Mannheim, 1782
Church in which Schiller was married
Schiller at the Court of Weimar
The Knight scorns Cunigonde. By Eugen Klimsch
The Diver. By Carl Gehrts
The Lay of the Bell. By Julius Benezur
Cassandra. By Ferdinand Keller
The Count gives up his Horse to the Priest. By Alexander Wagner
Wallenstein and Seni
Wallenstein and Terzky
Wallenstein hears of Octavio's Treason
Wallenstein warned by his Friends
The Death of Wallenstein. By Karl von Piloty
Stauffacher and his Wife Gertrude
The Oath on the Rütli
Tell takes Leave of his Family
Tell and Gessler
The Death of Attinghausen. By Wilhelm von Kaulbach
The Homage of the Arts. By Hermann Wislicenus
Gustavus Adolphus
Wallenstein. By Van Dyck
Monument to Goethe and Schiller in Weimar. By Ernst Rietschel
Goethe on Schiller. From the Ford Collection, New York Public
Library
Schiller on Goethe. From the Ford Collection, New York Public
Library
Schiller Reciting from his Works to his Weimar Friends. By Theobald
von Oer
The Goethe and Schiller Archives in Weimar
Facsimile of Leaf from the Album of Schiller's Letters to Charlotte von
Lengefeld

THE LIFE OF SCHILLER
BY CALVIN THOMAS, LL.D.
Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Columbia
University
He kept the faith. The ardent poet-soul, Once thrilled to madness by the
fiery gleam Of Freedom glimpsed afar in youthful dream, Henceforth
was true as needle to the pole. The vision he had caught remained the
goal Of manhood's aspiration and the theme Of those high luminous
musings that redeem Our souls from bondage to the general dole Of
trivial existence. Calm and free He faced the Sphinx, nor ever knew
dismay, Nor bowed to externalities the knee, Nor took a guerdon from
the fleeting day; But dwelt on earth in that eternity Where Truth and
Beauty shine with blended ray.[2]
Friedrich Schiller, the greatest of German dramatic poets, was born
November 10, 1759, at Marbach in Swabia. His father was an officer in
the army which the Duke of Württemberg sent out to fight the
Prussians in the Seven Years' War. Of his mother, whose maiden name
was Dorothea Kodweis, not much is known. She was a devout woman
who lived in the cares and duties of a household that sometimes felt the
pinch of poverty. After the war the family lived a while at the village of
Lorch, where Captain Schiller was employed as recruiting officer.
From there they moved, in 1766, to Ludwigsburg, where the
extravagant duke Karl Eugen had taken up his residence and was bent
on creating a sort of Swabian Versailles. Here little Fritz went to school
and was sometimes taken to