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CONTENTS.

BOOK I-GENESIS.

BOURG-WESEL. 1803-1807.

Birth-Family-Parentage-Infancy-Army of the Rhine-

Petted by the soldiers

CERTINES. 1807-1810.

Ancestral home-A natural education-Learns to labour-

First teachers-His mother's influence-Certines-The

fever- Father Pichon

BOURG. 1807-1814.

A French boy who had never heard of Napoleon-Militarism

-The violet eagle-Spanish prisoners-Leipsic and Mos-

cow-The Kaiserlicks are coming-The Austrians in

Bourg-Te verberabo-A rough time-Practical joking

Elba-A hot-headed little Bonapartist-Corpse of the deserter

-The spectre-The legend of Waterloo-The musical

Croat-A touch of character-Isolation and misanthropy

-Hiatus in the illuminations-Sent to college

BOURG CERTINES. 1815-1817.

The young captive-An angelic face-A Provençal missionary

-A revelation of the Eternal-Enchanted by Pulcheria

-Is delivered by a flash of lightning

BOOK II-THE VOCATION.

LYONS. 1817-1820.

The College Royale at Lyons-The Abbé Rousseau-The bar-

ring out-Personal traits of mother and son-A den on

the Rhone-Fiddler in the church choir-Burst of intel-

lectual life-Voracious readings-The Bible at Mass—

Petrified history-The Italian authors by lanthorn light

-Poetry of mathematics.

CERTINES. 1820.

Struggle about the Ecole Polytechnique-The lonely ponds of

the Dombes-What he learnt in the Desert-The

Creative Spirit His vocation-Which path? .

PARIS. 1821-1822.

Enters a bank-Resigns-Left to shift for himself—Endures

privations-Purity of life-"Note-book of the Wandering

Jew"-Student-at-law-New Year's prayers-" History

of the Human Conscience and Moral Personality

Parisian Duessa-Orestes and Pylades in love-Must

every young man sow his wild oats?

BOOK III-THE WANDERER.

THE JURA-SWITZERLAND-PARIS-ENGLAND. 1822-1826.

Source of the Rhone-Shepherds of the Jura-The shrines of

Voltaire, Rousseau, and Madame de Staël-Pilgrimage

of filial piety-Struggle with his father-Compulsory

residence at Charolles-Mr. Smith, of the "Morning

Chronicle "Herder-Hamann-Visit to England-"In-

troduction to Herder's Philosophy of the History of

Humanity "-Comparison between Herder and Vico-

Quinet separates himself from Herder's necessarianism—

History the unfolding of the drama of liberty-How to

understand history--A piece of Autobiography.

STRASBURG-HEIDELBERG. 1826-1829.

Introduction into literary society-Victor Cousin-Jules

Michelet-Vico's "Science Nouvelle "-" Essay on the

Works of Herder "-Illness at Strasburg-Mental conflict

-Heidelberg University-Creuzer-German ladies-His

love of horses-Walk in the Odenwald-The Rhine-

German celebrities-His studies and literary projects-

"Origin of the Gods"

The ideal and the real-" Merlin l'Euchanteur"- A musical

party develops unexpected harmonies-Minna Moré-A

German Vicar of Wakefield-Living in the spirit of the

Sermon on the Mount-Love the enchanter's wand-

Breaking another link in Nature's chain-Romantic epi-

sode-A portrait of Edgar Quinet drawn con amore

Greek War of Independence-Appointed on a commission to
the Morea-Adventures in Greece-Thunderstorm in

the Lycæus-Night in an Arcadian hovel-Disasters in

the Taygetus-Laconia-A people nigh to death-De-

population-Gloom of women-Desire for instruction-

Mutual schools-The child's duties-Corinth-A night

on the sea-The Piræus-Athens in desolation-The

Bimbachi-His atrocities-Almost shipwrecked-Super-

stition of Greek sailors-Return to France-"Modern

Revolution of July-Guizot at home-Victor Cousin-Philo-

sophy in its relation to Political history-Cousin and

Hugo-Dazzling hopes come to nothing, and why-

"Revue des Deux Mondes "-Discovery in the Bibliothèque

Royale "Unpublished Epics of the Twelfth Century" 115-123

Interviewing the Lieutenant-General-The Republicans of

1830-Every one at home, every one for himself—"Ger-

many and the Revolution "-The leadership of civilisation

-French ignorance of Germany-Its political changes-

Prussia its position, despotism, part it was to play-Bis-

marck foreshadowed-Value of the Rhenish provinces-

"Warning to the Monarchy of July "-What France ought

to do The French Revolution-Foreshadowing of the

Revolution of 1848 and of the fall of the house of Orleans

-Between whom there will be war- – Democracy must

have its day-Will consume itself and be followed by a

new order of things-Effect of pamphlet on Quinet's

Cause of his mental trials-Winter at Certines-Death of his

father-Jerome Quinet, his character and researches-

Death of Goethe-" German Art and Literature"-

Goethe-Wieland and Herder-The Schlegel-Schiller-

Tieck--Richter-Koerner-Uhland-Goerres

Cholera in Paris-Visit to Lamartine-Alps in winter-Italian

Lakes Milan Cathedral-Italian Gothic-Bridge of

Arcole Fireflies-Venice by night-Venetian policy and

Art-Tasso's cell-Ariosto's parlour-The Austrians in

Italy-Dante and Florence-Florentine art-Are religious

epochs favourable to art?-Il Penseroso-Alpine vol-

canoes-Roman Campagna-Antique Rome-A storm

in Rome Rome of the Middle Age-The Christ meditat-

ing over his ruined church-Rome of the Renaissance-

Raffaelle-Michael Angelo- Invocation to Rome—Reli-

gious temptations-Ahasuerus-Prometheus-Ascent of

Vesuvius by night--An Improvisatore-Roman corrup-

tion-Adventure in the Grotto of Azura-Exhibition of

skulls-Street of Tombs-Dream at Pæstum .

BOOK IV-THE POET.

FRANCE, GERMANY, ITALY. 1831-1832.

Ahasuerus-When composed-What it depicts-Legend of
the Wandering Jew-Character and form.

Prologue-In Heaven.

First Day-The Creation.-The Solitary Ocean-Monsters,

giants, Titans-Tribes of men-Migrations of humanity

-Desire for religious unity-Jerusalem heralding the

birth of the Christ-The Magi-The Infant-The Shep-

Second Day-The Passion.-The Viâ Dolorosa-How Aha-

suerus brings on himself the curse-St. Michel and the

horse Seméhé-Ahasuerus commences his journey-The

Goths, the Huns, &c., avenge the death of the Just

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