VOLUME V THE GERMAN CLASSICS Masterpieces of German Literature TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Patrons' Edition IN TWENTY VOLUMES ILLUSTRATED 1914 CONTRIBUTORS AND TRANSLATORS VOLUME V * * * * * Special Writers FRANK THILLY, PH.D., LL.D., Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University: The Romantic Philosophers--Fichte, Schelling, and Schleiermacher. GEORGE H. DANTON, PH.D., Professor of German, Butler College: Later German Romanticism. Translators PERCY MACKAYE, Dramatist and Poet: Departure; Would I were Free as are My Dreams. A.I. DU P. COLEMAN, A.M., Professor of English Literature, College of the City of New York: Taillefer; The Lion's Bride; The Crucifix; The Old Singer; From My Childhood Days; The Invitation; A Parable; At Forty Years; etc. MARGARETE MÜNSTERBERG: Selections from The Boy's Magic Horn; Union Song; The Mother Tongue; Spring Greeting to the Fatherland; Freedom; Charlemagne's Voyage; Chidher; etc. HERMAN MONTAGU DONNER: Lützow's Wild Band; Cavalryman's Morning Song. LOUIS H. GRAY, PH.D.: Addresses to the German Nation. FREDERIC H. HEDGE: The Destiny of Man; The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemihl; The Golden Pot. GEORGE RIPLEY: On the Social Element in Religion. J. ELLIOT CABOT: On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature. MRS. A.L.W. WISTER: From the Life of a Good-for-nothing. MARGARET HUNT: The Frog King, or Iron Henry; The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids; Rapunzel; Haensel and Grethel; The Fisherman and His Wife. F.E. BUNNETT: Selections from Undine. H.W. DULCKEN: Song of the Fatherland; The White Hart; Evening Song; Before the Doors. C.T. BROOKS: Men and Knaves; Prayer During Battle; Song of the Mountain Boy; The Chapel; etc. W.W. SKEAT: The Shepherd's Sang on the Lord's Day; The Hostess' Daughter; The Good Comrade. W.H. FURNESS: The Lost Church; The Minstrel's Curse. HENRY W. LONGFELLOW: The Luck of Edenhall; Remorse; The Castle by the Sea. KATE FREILIGRATH-KROEKER: On the Death of a Child. C.G. LELAND: The Broken Ring. ALFRED BASKERVILLE: Morning Prayer; The Castle of Boncourt; Woman's Love and Life; The Spring of Love; etc. BAYARD TAYLOR and LILIAN BAYARD TAYLOR KILIANI: The Women of Weinsberg; Barbarossa; the Grave of Alaric. JOHN OXENFORD: The Sentinel. LORD LINDSAY: The Pilgrim Before St. Just's. BAYARD TAYLOR: He Came to Meet Me. CONTENTS OF VOLUME V The Romantic Philosophers--Fichte, Schelling, and Schleiermacher. By Frank Thilly Friedrich Schleiermacher On the Social Element in Religion. Translated by George Ripley Johann Gottlieb Fichte The Destiny of Man. Translated by Frederic H. Hedge Addresses to the German Nation. Translated by Louis H. Gray Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling