quickening spirit of love and happiness, which breathes in all his works, and sheds a saintlike glory upon his life and his sufferings. His whole life was spent in communing with the Spirit of Truth that had revealed itself to him in the bright raiment of Poetry, and in delivering to his countrymen his poetic mission. At a time when patriotic enthusiasm and poetworship had extolled his merit above what is attainable by mere human effort, he alone seemed ignorant of the eminence on which he stood, because he measured his attainments not by what lay behind him and below, but by what he saw before himself and above. Of him whose image found an altar in every heart, of him it may well be said, that while all rejoiced in the light of his countenance, he himself "wist not that his face shone."

The English biographer has entered deeply into the mind and poetic character of Schiller; and his remarks on some of his works may justly be ranked among the best specimens of English criticism. He has accompanied his comments by translations, selecting from each of the principal writings of Schiller such passages, as are either most remarkable in themselves or best fitted to illustrate the character of the work to which they belong. The translation is generally conformed to the letter and the spirit of the original. Still there are a few passages of which the English translation is incorrect, and others which might have been improved by some alterations. But as it was