NOTES. XIX 



(W") p. 62. The passages in the text relating to Calderon and Shakspeare, 

 which are distinguished by marks of quotation, are taken from unpublished 

 letters, addressed to myself, by Ludwig Tieck. 



( 101 ) p. 65. The works referred to were published in the following order 

 of time: Jean Jacques Rousseau, Nouvelle Heloise, 1759; Buffon, Epoques 

 de la Nature, 1778, but his Histoire naturelle, 17491767 ; Bernardin dc 

 St.-Pierre, Etudes de la Nature, 1784, Paul et Virginie, 1788, Chaumiere 

 Indienne, 1791 ; George Forster, Reise nach der Siidsee, 1777, Kleinc 

 Schriften, 1794. More than half a century before the publication of the 

 Nouvelle Heloise, Madame de Sevigne had already manifested, in her charming 

 Letters, a vivid sense of natural beauty, such as can rarely be traced in the age 

 of Louis XIV. See the fine natural descriptions in the letters of April 20, 

 May 31, August 15, September 16, and November 6, 1671, and October 23 

 and December 28, 1689 (Aubenas, Hist, de Madame de Sevigne', 1842, p. 

 201 and 427). I have referred in the text to the old German poet, Paul 

 Flemmiug, who, from 1633 to 1639, accompanied Adam Olearius on his 

 journeys to Muscovy and to Persia, because, according to the authority of my 

 iriend Varnhagen von Ense (Biographische Denkw. Bd. iv. S. 4, 75, and 129), 

 " Flemming's compositions are characterised by a fresh and healthful vigour,** 

 aud because his images drawn from external nature are tender and full of 

 life. 



( 102 ) p. 68. Letter of the Admiral from Jamaica, July 7, 1503: "El 

 mundo es poco ; digo que el mundo no es tan grande como dice el vulgo" 

 (Navarrete, Coleccion de Viages esp. T. i. p. 300). 



( 103 ) p. 70. See Journal and Remarks, by Charles Darwin, 38321836, 

 in the Narrative of the Voyages of the Adventure and Beagle, Vol. iii. p. 

 479 490, where an exceedingly beautiful description of Tahiti is given. 



( 104 ) p. 70. On George Forster' s merit as a man and a writer, see Ger- 

 f iaus, Gesch. der poet. National-Litteratur der Deutschen, Th. v. S. 390 392. 



( 105 ) p. 71. Frcytag's Darstellung der arubischen Verskunst, 1830, S. 402. 



( 106 ) p. 75. Herod, iv. 88. 



( 107 ) p. 75. A portion of the works of Polygnotus and Mikon (the paint- 

 ing of the battle of Marathon in the Pokile at Athens) might still be seen, 

 according to the testimony of Himerius, at the end of the fourth century (of 

 our era), or 850 years after their execution (Letronne, Lettres sur la Peinturi 

 historique murale, 1835, p. 202 and 453). 



( 10S ) p. 76. Philostratorum Imagines, ed. Jacobs et Welcker, 1825, p. 79 

 and 485. Both the learned editors defend, against former suspicions, the 



