Chapter I: 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,