[Illustration: On the Way Toward the Grail. By Hans Thoma] The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Kuno Francke, Ph.D., LL.D., Litt.D. In Twenty Volumes Illustrated ALBANY, N.Y. J.B. LYON COMPANY PUBLISHERS 1913 CONTENTS OF VOLUME I Editor's Preface Publishers Foreword General Introduction. By Richard M. Meyer The Life of Goethe. By Calvin Thomas POEMS Greeting and Departure. Translated by Charles Wharton Stork The Heathrose. Adapted from the translation by E.A. Bowring Mahomet's Song. Translated by E.A. Bowring Prometheus. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Wanderer's Night-Song. Adapted from the translation by E.A. Bowring The Sea-Voyage. Translated by E.A. Bowring To the Moon. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Fisherman. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Wanderer's Night-Song. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Erl-King. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Godlike. Translated by E.A. Bowring Mignon. Translated by E.A. Bowring Proximity of the Beloved One. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Shepherd's Lament. Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin. Nature and Art Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman. Comfort in Tears. Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin Epilog to Schiller's "Song of the Bell." Translated by W.E. Aytoun and Theodore Martin Ergo Bibamus. Translated by E.A. Bowring The Walking Bell. Translated by E.A. Bowring Found. Translated by E.A. Bowring Hatem. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Reunion. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Procemion. Translated by E.A. Bowring The One and The All. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman Lines on Seeing Schiller's Skull. Translated by E.A. Bowring A Legacy. Translated by A.I. du P. Coleman * * * * * Introduction to Hermann and Dorothea. By Arthur H. Palmer Harmann and Dorothea. Translated by Ellen Frothingham DRAMAS Introduction to Iphigenia in Tauris. By Arthur H. Palmer Iphigenia in Tauris. Translated by Anna Swanwick * * * * * The Faust Legend from Marlowe to Goethe. By Kuno Francke Introduction to Faust. Calvin Thomas Faust (Part I). Translated by Anna Swanwick Faust (Part II). Translated by Anna Swanwick ILLUSTRATIONS-VOLUME I On the Way Toward the Grail. By Hans Thoma _Frontispiece_ Goethe. By J. Jäger Goethe. By J. Stieler Goethe's Houses in Weimar Goethe in the Campagua. By J.H.W. Tischbein Monument to Goethe in Berlin. By Fritz Schaper Monument to Goethe in Rome. By Eberlein The Death of Goethe. By Fritz Fleischer The Heathrose. By K. Kogler Prometheus. By Titian The Fisherman and the Mermaid. By Georg Papperitz Hermann's Parents in the Doorway of the Tavern. By Ludwig Richter Hermann hands to Dorothea the Linen for the Emigrants. By Ludwig Richter The Mother defending Hermann. By Ludwig Richter