Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Notes: 1. Page scan source: Making of America http://www.archive.org/details/hesperusorforty01paulgoog 2. Greek words are transliterated within brackets, e.g. [Greek: naos]. 3. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. 4. [=a] represents a macron above the letter a. JEAN PAUL'S WRITINGS. _TITAN_. 2 vols. 16mo. _FLOWER, FRUIT, AND THORN PIECES_. 2 vols. 16mo. _LEVANA, OR THE DOCTRINE OF EDUCATION_. 1 vol. 16mo. _THE CAMPANER THAL, AND OTHER WRITINGS_. 1 vol. 16mo. _HESPERUS_. 2 vols. 16mo. _LIFE OF JEAN PAUL_. By Mrs. E. B. Lee. Preceded by his Autobiography. 1 vol. 16mo. * * * * * The above are published in uniform volumes by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, Boston. HESPERUS OR _Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days_ A BIOGRAPHY FROM THE GERMAN OF _JEAN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER_ TRANSLATED BY CHARLES T. BROOKS "The Earth is the _cul-de-sac_ in the great city of God,--the camera obscura full of inverted and contracted images from a fairer world,--the coast of God's creation,--a vaporous halo around a better sun,--the numerator to a still invisible denominator,--in fact, it is almost nothing at all." _Selections from the Papers of the Devil_. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. 1865. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by TICKNOR AND FIELDS, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. University Press: Welch, Bigelow, And Company, Cambridge. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE.