lein_
(1796), that he first affixed his real and entire name. In 1780 he
went to Leipzig, but this he soon abandoned and resided for some time
at Schwarzbach. He visited various cities where he was greatly
respected, and received the title of "Legationsrath" from the Duke of
Sachsen-Hildburghausen, with a pension, which was afterwards paid by
the King of Bavaria. His favourite residence was, however, his native
Baireuth. A complete edition of his works, which are very numerous,
was published at Berlin in 21 vols., small octavo, in the year 1840,
and another in 4 vols., royal octavo, has been published by Baudry of
Paris. The short tale of the _Moon_ will give the reader a slight
notion--only a slight one--of Jean Paul's peculiarities. It is
prefixed in the original to _Quintus Fixlein_. An interesting paper on
Jean Paul will be found in Mr. Carlyle's admirable _Miscellanies_.

The fame of Ludwig Tieck as a writer of romances, and an enthusiastic
admirer of all that belongs to the romantic period of literature, is
almost as great in England as in Germany. In the history of the
"romantic" school, Tieck takes a most prominent position, being one of
the chief colleagues and most zealous partisans of the brothers
Schlegel. He was born at Berlin on the 31st of May, 1773, and even at
school displayed his talents for composition by the commencement of his
_Abdallah_. He studied at Halle, Goettingen, and Erlangen, and read
history and poetry, both ancient and modern, with great assiduity. In
1796, his novel, _William Lovell_, was published at Berlin. A journey
from Berlin to Jena made him acquainted with the Schlegels and
Hardenberg (Novalis), and at Weimar he became intimate with Herder.
His satirical dramas of _Blue Beard_ and _Puss in Boots_, displayed an
Aristophanic vein, and his works relating to art, began to attract
general attention. These were _The Outpourings from the Heart of an
Art-loving Cloister-brother_ (Berlin, 1797), the _Fantasies of Art_
(Hamburg, 1799), and _Franz Sternbald's Travels_ (Berlin, 1798), in all
of which his friend Wackenrode more or less took a part. Tieck
cultivated his taste for the fine arts by a residence in Dresden,
Munich, and Rome, and at Jena kept up his acquaintance with Schelling
and the Schlegels. In the years 1799-1801, he published his
translation of _Don Quixote_, and about the same period several works
of imagination. In 1801-2 he resided at Dresden, and edited, wi