Orleans_: Character of Jeanne d'Arc: Scenes, Joanna and her
Suitors; Death of Talbot; Joanna and Lionel. Enthusiastic reception of
the play. (181.)--Daily and nightly habits at Weimar. The _Bride of
Messina_. _Wilhelm Tell_: Truthfulness of the Characters and Scenery:
Scene, the Death of Gossler. (201.)--Schiller's dangerous illness.
Questionings of Futurity. The last sickness: Many things grow clearer:
Death. (219.)--General sorrow for his loss. His personal aspect:
Modesty and simplicity of manner: Mental gifts. (222.)--Definitions of
genius. Poetic sensibilities and wretchedness: In such miseries
Schiller had no share. A fine example of the German character: No
cant; no cowardly compromising with his own conscience: Childlike
simplicity. Literary Heroism. (227.)

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SUPPLEMENT OF 1872.

Small Book by Herr Saupe, entitled _Schiller and his Father's
Household_. Really interesting and instructive. Translation, with
slight corrections and additions. (p. 241.)

SCHILLER'S FATHER.

Johann Caspar Schiller, born in Wuertemberg, 27th October 1723. At ten
years a fatherless Boy poorly educated, he is apprenticed to a
barber-surgeon. Becomes 'Army Doctor' to a Bavarian regiment. Settles
in Marbach, and marries the daughter of a respectable townsman,
afterwards reduced to extreme poverty. The marriage, childless for the
first eight years. Six children in all: The Poet Schiller the only
Boy. (p. 243.)--Very meagre circumstances. At breaking-out of the
Seven-Years War returns to the Army. At the Ball of Fulda; at the
Battle of Leuthen. Cheerfully undertakes anything useful. Earnestly
diligent and studious. Greatly improves in general culture, and even
saves money. (244.)--Boards his poor Wife with her Father. His first
Daughter and his only Son born there. At the close of the War he
carries his Wife and Children to his own quarters. A just man; simple,
strong, expert; if also somewhat quick and rough. (246.) Solicitude
for his Son's education. Appointed Recruiting Officer, with permission
to live with his Family at Lorch. The children soon feel themselves at
home and happy. Little Fritz receives his first regular school
instruction, much to the comfort of his Father. Holiday rambles among
the neighbouring hills: Brotherly and Sisterly affection. Touches of
boyish fearlessness: Where does the lightning come from? (248.)--The
Family r