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. The caret ^ indicates superscript. The superscript text is enclosed by { }. 3. [Greek: gelotophuê] represents the transliteration of the Greek text. 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. II. 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. CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 25. DOG-POST-DAY. Feigned and Real Swoons of Clotilda.--Julius.--Emanuel's Letter Concerning God. 26. DOG-POST-DAY. Tergemini.--Zeusel and his Twin-Brother.--The Ascending Peruke.-- Detection Of Knaveries. 27. DOG-POST-DAY. Eye-Bandaging.--Picture behind the Bed-curtain.--Two Virtues in Danger. 28. DOG-POST-DAY. First Easter-Holiday.--Arrival at the Parsonage.--Club of the Three Twins.--Carps. Second Easter-Holiday.--Funeral-Discourse on Himself.--Two Opposite Sorts of Fatality to the Wax-Statue. Third Easter-Holiday.--F. Koch's Double Jews-harp.--The Sleigh-Ride.--The Ball And.... Preface to Part III. Seventh Intercalary Day.--End of the Register of Extra-Shoots.-- Unfeelingness of Readers.--Vol. III. (Preface to). 29. DOG-POST-DAY. Conversion.--Billet-Doux of the Watch.--Crape Hat. 30. DOG-POST-DAY. Letters. 31. DOG-POST-DAY. Clotilda's Letter.--The Night-Express.--Rents and Gashes in the Band of Friendship.