Faust, Second Part of, embarrassment in
expressing a faithful opinion of, 541;
comparison of the impressions pro-
duced by the first and second parts,
541; character of the second part, 543;
causes of its failure, 544; analysis,

545

Faustus, Marlowe's, analysis of, 469
Fellow-Sinners, the, Goethe's drama of,
49; represented in the private theatre
at Weimar, 234

Fischerin, die, Goethe's operetta of,

234

Fisherman, the, Goethe's ballad, 228
Fire-brigade instituted at Weimar at the
instance of Goethe, 274
Frankfort Journal, extract from one of
Goethe's articles in, 128
Frankfort-on-the-Main, the native place
of Goethe, 11; its two-fold character,
12; its occupation by the French, 25;
their departure, 28; Goethe's desire to
escape from, 64; his renewed studies
at, 127; visits of Karl August, 188,
275; Goethe's visit to, in 1814, 524;
his ovation at, ib.

Frankfurter Gelehrten Anzeigen, the
organ of the Storm and Stress party,
103
Frederick the Great, literary tendencies

of, opposed to Goethe, 246; his opi-
nion of Götz von Berlichingen, ib.;
his indirect influence on literature,
247

Frederika. See Brion.

French Revolution, doctrines of, 368;
Goethe's attitude toward, 369, 385;
opposed by Wieland and Schiller, 385
Friday evenings held at Weimar, 366

century, 196; no nation, 200, 513;
Goethe's opinion concerning, 514. See
Weimar

Gerock, Anna Antoinette, Goethe's love
for, 135; lottery marriage with Goethe,
161; induces him to write Clavigo,
ib.

Gervinus, his criticism on Wilhelm Meis-
ter, 394

Geschwister, die, Goethe's, play of, 235
Gleim, story of his first meeting with
Goethe, 217

Göchhausen, Mdlle., her character, 204;
prank of Karl August and Goethe, ib.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, character and
extent of his claim to greatness, 2; here-
ditarytransmission of qualities, ib.; his
ancestry, 3; silence concerning his
grandfather the tailor, ib.; genealogi-
cal table of the Goethe and Textor
families, 5, 6; character of his father
and mother, 7; his subjection of emo-
tions to reason, 9; feeling for Italy,
13; moderate elevation of his social
status, ib.; his precocious babyhood,
ib.; his love for his sister Cornelia,
14; youthful escapade, ib.; his love
of story-telling, 15; his grandmother
and grandfather Textor, ib.; his early
compositions in Latin and German,
16; character of his precocity, 17; his
school life, 18, 19; early religious doubts
awakened by the Lisbon earthquake,
22; early symbolical representation of
the soul's aspirations to the Deity, 23:
the seven years' war, ib.; invention of
little stories, 24; occupation of Frank-
furt by the French, 25; visits to the
theatre, ib.; acquires French, 26; mock
duel with Derones, ib.; his early play,
27; entertains a profound contempt for
the unities, ib.; resumption of study on
the departure of the French, 28; writes a
polyglot romance, ib.; masters Hebrew,
ib.; dictates a biblical poem on Joseph
and his brethren, 29; mixes with all
classes in Frankfurt, 30; influence on
him of Fräulein von Klettenberg, 31;
early love for Gretchen, ib.; his disap-
pointment, 32; fascination of his nature,
33; characteristics of his childhood, 34;
his manysidedness, ib. ; his seriousness,
formality, and rationality, 35; rational
character of his enthusiasm, ib.; his
impatient susceptibility, 36; commen-
ces his collegiate life at Leipsic, 37;
wearies of logic and jurisprudence,
ib.; his appearance in society, ib.;
acquaintance with Frau Böhme, 39;
conversation at Hofrath Ludwig's, ib. ;
tires of society, 40; literary society
at the table d'hôte of Herr Schönkopf,
42; falls in love with Anna Katharina
Schönkopf, ib.; description of Goethe

in Horn's letters to Moors, 43, 44;
composition of Die Laune des Verlieb-
ten, 46; works of Goethe, an embodi-
ment of his experiences, 47; pranks
and extravagances with Behrisch, 49;
his experiences of Leipsic society, ib.;
composition of the Fellow-sinners, ib.;
objective character of Goethe's genius,
52, 54; concrete tendency in his works,
ib.; compared with Shakspeare, 53; his
moral toleration, 54; neglects his col-
legiate studies, 55; his love songs, 56;
joins Oeser's drawing class, ib. ; trips to
Dresden, 57, 388; learns engraving, 57;
serious illness, 58; state of religious
doubt, ib.; returns to Frankfurt, 59;
his reception, ib.; letters to Käthchen
Schönkopf, ib. ; unpleasant relations
with his father, 63; studies in alchemy,
ib.; religion, 64, 519; proceeds to Stras-
burg University, 65; description of his
person, ib.; general progress, 66; his
disgust at the Système de la Nature,
67; his exasperation at the pictures ex-
hibited to Marie Antoinette, ib.; mys-
tical metaphysical studies, 69; early ten-
dency to nature-worship, ib.; notes on
Bayle's criticism of Giordano Bruno, 70;
comment on a chapter in Fabricius, ib.;
improved deportment, 72; increased
circle of friends, ib.; acquaintance with
Stilling and Lerse, ib.; conquers his irri-
tability and sensitiveness, 74; two love
poems, ib.; dancing lessons at Strasburg,
75; story of Emilia and Lucinda, the
dancing master's daughters, ib.; his
German culture, 79; acquaintance with
Herder, 80; Herder's opinion of him, ib.;
strange introduction to the Brion family,
82; falls in love with Frederika, 83; his
letter to her, 85; obtains his doctor's
degree, 87; his oration on Shakspeare,
90; his appreciation of Gothic archi-
tecture, 94; parting with Frederika,
95; his reception by his father, 97; his
reluctance to appear in print, ib.; his
anguish at having renounced Frede-
rika, 98; his studies, 102; his father's
anxiety about him, 104; composition
of Götz von Berlichingen, 105; Kest-
ner's description of him, 114; his
acquaintance with Götter, 116; his
connection with the Göttingen school,
117; falls in love with Charlotte Buff,
120; visit to Höpfner, 122; intro-
duces Merck to Lotte, ib.; melan-
choly departure from Wetzlar, 123;
his farewell note to Lottchen, 125;
interrogates Fate if he should be-
come an artist, 126; visits Frau von
Laroche and flirts with her daughter,
127; studies at Frankfurt, ib. ; rewrites
Götz, 128; his reasons for rewriting it,
ib.; Merck's advice to him, 129; publi-

cation of Götz, ib.; its success, ib.; a
magnificent order from a bookseller,
131; letters to Kestner and Charlotte,
133, 134, 135, 137; coquetting with
suicide, 134; state of his mind, ib.;
falls in love with Antoinette Gerock,
135; meditates a drama on Mahomet,
137; dangerous intimacy with Maxi-
miliane Brentano, 139; publication of
Götter, Helden und Wieland, 140; first
acquaintance with Karl August, 141;
composition of Werther, 145; distinc-
tion between Werther and Goethe, 150;
prodigious effect of its publication, 152,
153; Kestner's letter to him, 155;
Goethe obtains the forgiveness of Kest-
ner and Charlotte, 156; his monument
at Wetzlar, 159; his lottery marriage,
160; composition of Clavigo, ib.; ac-
quaintance with Klopstock and Lava-
ter, 164; his opinion of Lavater, 165;
studies Spinoza, 166, 170; religious
opinions, 166, 167; acquaintance with
Basedow, 167; journey with Basedow
to the Rhine, 168; acquaintance with
Jacobi, 169; Goethe's personality, ib.;
contrasted with Herder, 170; the Mo-
ravian doctrines, 172; idea of an epic
on the Wandering Jew, 173; fragment
of Prometheus, 175; affection for Lili,
180; Erwin und Elmire, 183; objections
to his marriage with Lili, 184; compo-
sition of Stella, 185; Canning's bur-
lesque of Stella, 186; tour in Switzer-
land, 187; separation from Lili, ib.;
accepts Karl August's invitation to
Weimar, 188; compared with Karl
August, 207; their intimacy, 208, 212,
213; Goethe's disinterestedness to-
ward Herder, 209; his costume at
Weimar, 211; his love intrigues, ib.;
his wild pranks at Weimar, 212; elected
to the post of Geheime Legations
Rath, 214; breach with Klopstock,
216; Gleim's anecdote of Goethe, 217;
charge of having sacrificed his ge-
nius to the court, ib; falls in love with
Frau von Stein, 222; his letters to her,
224, 239; his Gartenhaus, 226; his
fondness for fresh air and water, 227;
Ballad of the Fisherman, 228; appear-
ance in the character of a water-sprite,
229; useful influence at Weimar, 230;
theatricals, 231, 232; his acting, 235;
general amusements and occupation,
236; love and ambition, 239; takes
charge of a Swiss peasant-boy, 239;
letters to him from sentimental youths,
240; grows ashamed of Werther, ib.;
composition of Triumph der Empfinds-
amkeit, ib.; journey to the Harz in
disguise, ib.; interview with Plessing,
241; his realism, 242; suicide of Frau-
lein von Lassberg, ib.; increased hatred

of Wertherism, 243; manifold employ-
ments, 245; the famine at Apolda, ib.;
his journey to Berlin, 246; his contempt
for the Prussian court, ib. ; excites the
ill-will of the Berlin literati, ib.; his
activity after returning to Weimar,
248; story of his protégé Kraft, ib.;
mental crystallisation, 258; dawning of
a new life, 259; composition of the Iphi-
genia in prose, ib.; review of the Iphi-
genia, 262; his official duties, 274; in-
stitutes a fire-brigade at Weimar, ib.;
made Geheimrath, ib.; journey with
Karl August to Frankfurt and Stras-
burg, 275; interviews with Frederika
and Lili, 275, 276; visits his sister's
grave, 276; passionate study of science,
278, 290, 330; changes in his mode of
life, 279; is ennobled, ib.; increased
affection for Frau von Stein, 280; oc-
casional discords with Karl August, ib.;
poem of Ilmenau, 284; journey in the
Harz with Fritz von Stein, 285; his
efforts as controller of finance, ib.;
prepares the Planet Dance, 286; oration
on the reopening of the Ilmenau mines,
ib.; discovers the intermaxillary bone,
ib.; studies in natural history, 287;
salary increased by Karl August, 288;
Goethe's charities, ib.; changes in
Weimar society, ib.; his various stu-
dies, 290; secret departure for Italy,
291; his residence in Italy, 292; his
narrow escape from shipwreck, 297;
falls in love with a young Milanese, 300;
returns to Weimar, ib.; review of Eg-
mont, 301; of Tasso, 307; his letter to
Karl August, 309; relieved from his
official duties, 310; his first acquain-
tance with Schiller, 312; Goethe's
change in reference to the Sturm und
Drang movement, ib.; recommends
Schiller to a professorship at Jena,
315; his connexion with Christiane
Vulpius, 316; Roman Elegies, 319;
Goethe's history of his botanical stu-
dies, 329; character of Goethe as a
man of science, 332; his theory of
colours, 333; his optical studies, ib.;
his ignorance of mathematics and
physical science, 339; his aptitude for
dealing with physical science, 340; de-
spises the pedantry of professional men,
343; his merit, that of a "thinker in
science," 354; second visit to Italy,
365; visits the camp in Silesia, ib.;
campaign in France, 366; Goethe's
diary of the campaign, 370; descrip-
tion of his house in the Frauenplan,
376; the Bürgergeneral, 378; the
Aufgeregten, ib.; Reinecke Fuchs, ib.;
history and character of his friendship
with Schiller, 380; Goethe contrasted
with Shakspeare, 384; review of Wil-

helm Meister, 393; Goethe's influence
on Schiller, 402; review of HermAZI
und Dorothea, 408; history of Goethe's
management of the Weimar theatre,
419; his mode of life at Weimar, 435;
last years of Schiller, ib.; review of
Faust,446; review of the Lyrical Poems,
480; battle of Jena, 486; his outburst
against Napoleon, 488; marriage with
Christiane Vulpius, 493; nature of his
acquaintance with Bettina Brentano,
496; interview with Napoleon, 499;
noticed in the Moniteur, ib.; receives
the cross of the Legion of Honour,
500; Goethe's supposed servility, 502;
his passion for Minna Herzlieb, 504;
review of the Wahlverwandtschaften,
505; acquaintance with Beethoven, 512;
indifference to politics, but earnestness
in art, 513; not true that he "looked
on life as an artist," 515; character of
his religion, 517; his morals, 521; cha-
racter of his old age, ib.; his oriental
studies, 522; the West-östliche Divan,
ib.; ovation at Frankfurt, 524; publi
cation of the Kunst und Alterthum,
525; growing tendency towards mysti-
cism, 426; visit of Lottchen to Weimar,
ib.; death of Christiane, 526; anecdote
of his enlargement of the Jena library,
527; quarrel with the Landtag, 528;
charged with stealing an ingot of gold,
530; story of the hundred engravings
borrowed from Knebel, ib.; his varied
occupations, 531; review of Wilhelm
Meister's Wanderjahre, 531; spread of
his fame, 534; vitality of his old age,
535;
his passion for Fräulein von
Lewezow, 536; Madame Szymanowska
"madly in love" with him, 536; his
jubilee at Weimar, 536; protection of
his copyright in Germany, 538; re-
ceives the order of the Grand Cross of
Bavaria, ib.; death of Karl August,
ib.; finishes the Wanderjahre, 539; re-
view of the second part of Faust, 541;
closing scenes, 550; his eighty-first
year, ib.; indifference to the revolution
of 1830 in comparison with the scien-
tific contest between Cuvier and St.
Hilaire, 550; death of his only son,
551; tribute from fifteen Englishmen,
552; Thackeray's letter describing
Goethe and Weimar, 553; activity of
his old age, ib.; signs of decay, 557;
his death, 558.

Goethe family, genealogical table of, 5
Goethe, Johann Caspar, father of the
poet, 3, 4; his character, 7; his me-
thod of education, 16; dissatisfied with
his son's progress at Leipsic, 59; his
harshness to his daughter Cornelia, 63;
his pride in his son, but distress at his
manners, 96, 97; doubts as to his son's

acquaintance with the princes of Wei- |
mar, 142; his death, 279
Goethe, Katharina Elizabeth, mother of
the poet, 4; her character, 7; her stories
to her children, 15; her reception of
Goethe on his return from Leipsic, 59;
her description of her son skating, 139;
Goethe's letter to her from Weimar,
219; her missing letter, 374; her death,
511
Goethe, Cornelia, sister of the poet, his
love for her, 14; her father's harshness,
63; her marriage, 137; her objections
to Goethe's marriage with Lili, 184, 187;
her death, 239; Goethe visits her grave,

276

Goethe, Frederick, 3

Goethe, Hans Christian, 3

Goethe, Jacob, early death of, 25

Goethe, Ottilie von. See Pogwisch, Ot-
tilie von

Gold, ingot of, Goethe charged with steal-
ing one, 530

Goldsmith's Deserted Village, translated
by Goethe and Götter, 116

Gotha, Duke of, places at Goethe's dis-
posal a magnificent laboratory, 332
Gothic architecture, Goethe's apprecia-
tion of, 94

Gott und die Bajadere, 482

Götter, 114; Goethe's acquaintance with
him, 116

Gottfried of the Iron Hand, history of, 106
Götter, Helden und Wieland, 140; re-
viewed by Wieland, ib.; circumstances
under which it was written, ib.
Göttling, his discovery respecting phos-
phorus, 388

Götz von Berlichingen, three versions of,
105; Goethe's own account of its com-
position, ib.; character of Gottfried of
the Iron Hand, 106; the characters in
Götz von Berlichingen, 107; Götz a
dramatic chronicle not a drama, ib.;
singularly un-Shakspearian in construc-
tion, 108; in the presentation of cha-
racter, ib.; in the language, 109; the
first-born of the Romantic School, ib.;
its injurious influence on dramatic art,
ib.; its originality denied by Hegel,
110; its scenes, 110, 111; rewritten,
128; Goethe's reasons for rewriting it,
ib.; Merck's advice, 129; its publica-
tion, ib.; its effect upon the public, 130;
the representative of the Sturm und
Drang movement, 131; Frederick the
Great's opinion of Götz von Berlichin-
gen, 246; Sir Walter Scott's translation,
407

Goué, instituted the Round Table at
Wetzlar, 113; his rumoured suicide,
148

Greek art compared with Christian art,
154; Goethe's enthusiasm for, 525

Greek drama, traditional errors concern-
ing, 262; necessary calmness of evolu-
tion mistaken for calmness of life, 263
Gretchen, story of Goethe's early love
for, 31

Gross Kophta, der, 366
Grünn, Karl, 132

Guizot, his epigram on our age, 145

HAMILTON, Lady, captivates Goethe,
296
Hamlet, Wilhelm Meister's criticism on,
400; twofold cause of its popularity:
intellectual sublimity and dramatic
variety, 448; compared with Faust,
ib.

Hardenberg, a fellow student of Goethe's,

56

Harz, Goethe's journeys in, 240, 285
Harzreise in Winter, poem of, 240
Hegel, his criticism of Götz, 110; his
remark on heroes and valets, 248; a
convert to Goethe's erroneous theory
of refraction, 339; on Hermann und
Dorothea, 418

Heine, anecdote of his interview with
Goethe, 437

Heinse, his description of Goethe, 169
Helena, Carlyle's review of, 547; its cha-
racter, 548

Herculaneum, Goethe's visit to, 296
Herder, his acquaintance with Goethe,
80; his opinion of Goethe, ib.; his in-
fluence on him, 81; his reception of
Gotz von Berlichingen, 130; contrasted
with Goethe, 170; drawn to Weimar by
Goethe, 209; Goethe's disinterested-
ness towards him, ib. ; called to Weimar
as court chaplain, 230; his opinion of
Goethe quoted by Schiller, 256; closer
intimacy with Goethe, 278; his jealousy
of Schiller, 440; his death, 441
Hereditary transmission of qualities, 2
Hermann und Dorothea, foundation of
Goethe's poem, 408; analysis, 409;
character of the poem, 415; objective
delineation of characters and scenes,
ib.; pure human existence represented
in the subject matter, 416; clearness
and significance of the style, 417; Ger-
man criticisms on, 418

Herzlieb, Minna, Goethe's passion for,
504; his sonnets to her, ib.; heroine
of Die Wahlverwandtschaften, ib.
Hooker, Dr., his appreciation of Linnæus,

348

Höpfner, Goethe's visit to, 122
Horen, die, publication of, 386; a failure,

389.

Horn, his description of Goethe to Moors,
43, 45; his description of the character
of Goethe's genius, 52

Humboldts, their acquaintance with
Goethe, 389; letter to Goethe relating
the death of Karl August, 538
Huxley, his criticism on the vertebral
theory of the skull, 360

IDEAL, or subjective, intellects contrasted
with real, or, objective intellects, 51
Ideas constructed out of the depth of
moral consciousness, 393; the camel
story, ib.; the Idea of Faust, 449
Ilmenau, Goethe's poem of, 284; his
oration on the reopening of the mines,
286; his last visit to, 557
Imbaumgarten, Peter, Goethe's protégé,
239, 252

Imperial court of justice at Wetzlar,

112

Infusoria, Goethe's studies of, 290
Intellect, distinction between the sub-
jective and objective, 51
Intermaxillary

bone, discovered by
Goethe, its biographical significance,
287; a bone of contention among ana-
tomists, 342; its existence indicated
by Galen, but generally supposed to
be absent from man, ib.; recognised
by Loder, Spix, and Sommering, 343;
the comparative method which led to
the discovery, 344; the claim of Vicq
d'Azyr to the discovery of, 345. See
Metamorphoses, Morphology
Interpretation, symbolical, extensive ap-
plication of, 442

Iphigenia represented at Weimar, 235;

first composed in prose, 260; com-
parison of the prose with the poetic
version, 261; Schlegel's error in call-
ing it an echo of Greek song, 262; not
a Greek but a German play, 264;
Schiller's criticism, ib.; not a drama
but a dramatic poem, 265; analysis
of, ib.; Miss Swanwick's translation
of, 266

Irony, principle of, 403

Italiänische Reise, character of the book,
292

Italian pictures, Goethe's appreciation
of, 57

Italy, Goethe's love for, 13; his first visit
under an assumed name, 292; Goethe's
delight in the present and not in the
past, 293; effect of Goethe's residence
in, 298; his second visit to, 365

JACOBI, Frau, Goethe's letter to, 139
Jacobi, his acquaintance with Goethe,
169; discussion with Lessing, 175; his
tone and opinions disliked by Goethe,
289; his animadversions on Wilhelm

Meister, answered by Schiller, 399; his
visit to Goethe at Weimar, 485
Jean Paul, his impression of Goethe, 437;
of Schiller, ib

Jena, the home of science, 195: students,
their appearance at the Weimar
theatre, 422
Jena, battle of, 486
Jena library, anecdote of Goethe's en-
largement of it, 527

Jerusalem, his philosophical essays,
edited by Lessing, 121; his unhappy
passion, 122; his suicide, 134; abridg
ment of Kestner's account of, 146
Jery und Bätely, 276

Jubilee, Goethe's celebration of, at Wei-
mar, 536

KARL AUGUST, his first acquaintance with
Goethe, 142; invites Goethe to Wei-
mar, 187; visits Frankfurt, 188;
Goethe accepts his invitation to Wei-
mar, ib.; his trick on Mdlle. Gōch-
hausen, 204; his character, 206; com-
pared with Goethe, 207; Goethe's
description of him, ib.; his close inti-
macy with Goethe, 208, 212, 213;
elects Goethe to the post of Geheime
Legations Rath, 214; silences the pro-
test of the Court, ib.; presents Goethe
with the Gartenhaus, 226; his theatrical
troupe and its wanderings, 231; his
journey with Goethe to the Harz, 240;
makes Goethe Geheimrath, 274; his
journey with Goethe to Frankfurt and
Strasburg, 275; Goethe's occasional
discords with him, 280; his letter to
Merck, 283; releases Goethe from his
more onerous official duties, 310; com-
mands a Prussian regiment during the
campaign in France, 367; dismisses
Goethe from the management of the
Weimar stage, 433; Napoleon's in-
temperate rage against him, 488;
Goethe's outburst, ib.; Napoleon's
friendly reception of him at Erfurt,
499; his visits to Goethe, 531; his
death, 538

Karsten and his performing dogs, 432
Käthchen. See Schönkopf
Kaufmann, Angelica, Goethe's acquaint-
ance with her, 294, 297
Kestner, Goethe's correspondence with,
112; his description of Goethe at
Wetzlar, 114; betrothed to Charlotte
Buff, 119; his account of Charlotte
and Goethe, 119, 120; extracts from
his diary, 123; Goethe's letters to, 133,
134, 135, 136, 141, 156, 157; his mar-
riage with Charlotte, 136; his account
of Jerusalem's suicide, 146; his indig-
nation at Werther, 155; his letter to