_Hennings_.--I know nothing of this character. Hayward says he was one of the victims of the Xenien, and editor of two periodicals, "_The Genius of the Age_," and the "_Musaget_." The _stiff_ man is Nicolai; he of the "old mill," _supra_, p. 251. Nicolai was a great zealot against Catholics and Jesuits; but, as Frantz Horn hints, his zeal was not always according to knowledge.--_Geschichte der Deutschen Poesie_, vol. iii. The _Crane_, I believe, is Lavater. Note XVI. _My mother, the wanton,_ _That choked my breath._ "This song is founded upon a popular German story, to be found in the _Kinder-und Haus-Märchen_ of the distinguished brothers Grimm, under the title of _Van den Machandel-Boom_, and in the English selection from that work (entitled _German Popular Stories_), under the title of _The Juniper Tree_.--The wife of a rich man, whilst standing under a juniper tree, wishes for a little child as white as snow and as red as blood; and, on another occasion, expresses a wish to be buried under the juniper when dead. Soon after, a little boy as white as snow and as red as blood is born: the mother dies of joy at beholding it, and is buried according to her wish. The husband marries again, and has a daughter. The second wife, becoming jealous of the boy, murders him, and serves him up at table for the unconscious father to eat. The father finishes the whole dish, and throws the bones under the table. The little girl, who is made the innocent assistant in her mother's villany, picks them up, ties them in a silk handkerchief, and buries them under the juniper tree. The tree begins to move its branches mysteriously, and then a kind of cloud rises from it, a fire appears in the cloud, and out of the fire comes a beautiful bird, which flies about singing the following song:-- "'Min Moder de mi slacht't Min Vader de me att, Min Swester de Marleenken Söcht alle mine Beeniken, Un bindt sie in een syden Dook, Legts unner den Machandelboom; Kywitt, Kywitt! ach watt en schön Vagel ben ich!'" Hayward's _Prose Translation of Faust_, _2d edition_, p. 294. [THE END.] TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES. Alterations to text: Add TOC and Dramatis Personae listing. Relabel footnote markers and link to footnotes at end of work. Add note markers to play and link to notes at end of work. Minor changes to the formatting of some play elements (speaker names, stage directions, etc.). [Act IV/Scene VIII] Change the speaker of "Who's this lies here?" from Gretchen to Margaret. Text surrounded by /slashes/ is mixed capitals. End of Project Gutenberg's Faust: A Tragedy, by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe