PART I. IN THREE DIALOGUES.

I. A Scene in a Steam Boat 4 A Singular Character 20 Gallery at Ghent 25 The Prince of Orange's Pictures 27 A Female Gambler 38 Cologne--the Medusa 44 Professor Walraf 51 Schlegel and Madame de Staël 55 Story of Archbishop Gerard 64 Heidelberg--Elizabeth Stuart 68 An English Fanner's idea of the Picturesque 85

II. Frankfort 88 The Theatre, Madame Haitzinger 92 The Versorgung Haus 98 The Städel Museum 103 Dannecker, Memoir of his Life and Works 106 German Sculpture--Rauch, Tieck, Schwanthaler 147

III. Goethe and his daughter-in-law 160 The German Women 167 German Authoresses 177 German Domestic Life and Manners 187 German Coquetterie and German Romance 199 The Story of a Devoted Sister 205

SKETCHES OF ART, LITERATURE, AND CHARACTER,