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    which is all that appears of her in the Lehrjahre , —Malcaria * In the first parf of the work is a collection of enigmatical sayings , entitled , ' From Makaria's archives- ' Who she is we learn only in the second part . She is a rich and-nobW-lady , devoting her life to acts of beneficence , but 3 like the beautiful soul / living under deep religious impressions . She , too , is a visionary , and lives under the notion that her life is bound up with the movements of

    the stars , and she finds an astronomer who nourishes and seconds her gentle , sublime , and harmless illusion . That no variety of the religious female character might be wanting , Go « the has also supplied a saint of a more practical turn of mind , whom he has entitled , the c new nut-brown maid . ' Her history is one of the delightful novelle , which , after all , form the great charm of the work to the general reader ; her piety is warm , but her virtue is active and even laborious . She is the wife ajidjypidow of a manufacturer , and from her proceed the discussions of political

    economy . There are several other tales of equal attraction , * The Man of Fifty Years , ' is full of lessons of wisdom for the bachelors and widowers of that perilous age , of which the dangers are the most (to be feared , because in fact they are not apprehended . The crown of the romantic novelle is The New Melusina . ' That

    antique and oriental tale , ( for such we presume it is , though we want scholarship to trace it to India or Persia ^) of which the tale of Cupid and Psyche is a variety , is modernized so far , that a barber makes himself the husband of the fairy wife , whom he unconsciously carries about with him in an enchanted box . The humorous blending of the marvellous and familiar is successful ,

    and very different indeed from the French degradation of the fairy tale to the de \ elopements of the brothel . A considerable space in this , as in the former part , is given to a collection of axioms and single thoughts , as if to balance , by these emanations of pure reason , the sentimental and playful elements in which the re 3 t of the work abounds .

    We are now arrived at the autobiographical class of our author ' s works . These fill nine volumes , from the 24 th to the 33 rd . We are compelled to pass them over in a few lines , referring to what we have said vol . vi . p . 292—301 ,, &c . Vols . 24 , 25 , 2 ( i consist of the Dichfung und Wahrheit . We here protest against Mr . Taylor ' s inference , that there is conscious

    invention or falsehood in this book , in spite of Goethe ' s own explanation , which we have given . We have also to warn our readers against the pretended translation of this work , published by Colburn . An exposure of the fraud appeared in an early number of the Westminster Review . The book is there proved to be from the French , by a person who was ignorant even of the German alphabet . IMot a single sentence involving thought is faithfully given .

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    Goethes Works . 191

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1833, page 191, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2610/page/47/