Transcriber's Notes: #################### This e-text is based on the 1899 edition of the book. Minor punctuation errors have been tacitly corrected. Inconsistent and uncommon spelling and hyphenation have been retained. Words obviously missing a single letter have been tacitly corrected. Italic text in the original book has been placed between underscores (_italic_); passages in small caps have been characterised by forward slashes (/small caps/). [oe] symbolises the corresponding ligature. The following passages have been corrected or need to be commented: # p. 24: "verlaszt": obsolete form of "verlaßt" # p. 61: "court-marshal": literal translation for "Hofmarschall" (lord stewart) # p. 106: "voiec" --> "voice" # p. 111: "come, your majesty" --> "I come, your majesty" # p. 119: "may taken" --> "may be taken" # p. 285: "into the the room": doubled word removed. # p. 296: "after along" --> "after a long" # p. 308: "and taken up" --> "had taken up" # p. 319: "osberved" --> "observed" # p. 321: "countenanec" --> "countenance"; "opposite Schiller's bed" --> "opposite Goethe's bed" # p. 339: "wonderlich" --> "wunderlich" # p. 350: "Signore" --> "Signora" # p. 458: "than no soirée" --> "that no soirée" # p. 491: "Charlotte's" --> "Caroline's" # p. 493: "Weningenjena" --> "Wenigenjena" # Footnote 42: "Dante Alighiere's" --> "Dante Alighieri's" # Advertising pages: 2nd and 4th; 3rd and 5th page are identical in the original book --> 4th and 5th page deleted. [Illustration: SCHILLER IN HIS ATTIC.] GOETHE AND SCHILLER An Historical Romance BY L. MÜHLBACH AUTHOR OF JOSEPH II. AND HIS COURT, FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT, THE EMPRESS JOSEPHINE, ANDREAS HOFER, ETC. TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY CHAPMAN COLEMAN NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY 1899 /Copyright/, 1867, /By/ D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. CONTENTS. BOOK I. CHAPTER PAGE I. Introduction, 1 II. The Trials of Life, 10 III. Henrietta von Wolzogen, 22 IV. Joy and Sorrow, 33 V. Charlotte von Kalb, 41 VI. The Title, 59 VII. Adieu to Mannheim! 68 VIII. Plans for the Future, 73