is priest, by some spell also, can absolve him. That monk, with
folded arms over a heart so well folded too--who would not be that monk?
But the man has mingled asceticism with his piety till he knows not which
is which; and let a woman in her youth and beauty traverse his path, he
crosses himself, as if not the angel of this world, but the demon of
another had appeared before him. In looking at these phantasmagoria of the
past, we must be content to see and to feel for the moment; there is no
stereotyped expression of face with which we can regard the whole.

We have soon exhausted our critical cavils, and shall look at leisure
through these volumes for some of those points which interested us during
their perusal. Amongst the first things we had noted for quotation is an
account of our old friend Gotz von Berlichingen--him of the Iron
Hand--which we somehow liked the better for there being no allusion to the
drama of Goethe. Nobody whom the information could in the least interest,
needed to be told that it was the hero of the drama whose real life and
adventures he was getting acquainted with. We find, however, on
re-perusal, that this account is too long to be extracted: we leave it
untouched for those who peruse the work; and shall make our first
quotation from the description of the Hanse Towns. Here is a curious
passage, which shows that the mere collecting together in towns, and
making some advance in the great art of money-getting, is no guarantee
against superstitions as gross and ridiculous as any that haunt the boor
in his cottage.

"With the horrors of superstition in the punishment of witches and
the like, most readers are familiar enough; and such as occur in the
registers of these cities, have little to distinguish them from
similar occurrences elsewhere. Sometimes, indeed, there is an entry
somewhat more noteworthy; as, for instance, of the arrival of 'The
Wandering Jew' at the Isar gate of the city of Munich. It appears,
that this rather remarkable visitor was not allowed to enter the
city, but he told those who went to see him that he had been seven
times round the world, and on being shown a picture of the Saviour,
readily vouched for the likeness.

"Another entry concerns a certain wolf, who had committed terrible
havoc, so that the country people, even at mid-day, were afraid to
cross the fields; but a still greater consternation was