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Wukadinovic then caTefully compares 'The Pioneers' and the 

 'Novelle' with conclusive proof of the influence of Cooper's novel 

 upon the latter in the grouping of the characters, in the treatment 

 of nature, and in the style and content of the somewhat exotic 

 speech of the keeper and his wife. In the same monograph the 

 scene of action in the 'Novelle' is fixed as that of the ruined castle 

 of Hassenstein in Bohemia which Goethe visited while the guest of 

 Prince Lobkowitz in September, 1810. 



It is not too much to presume that the memories of his visit 

 to the ruins of Hassenstein, which he was now indirectly weaving 

 into the 'Novelle,' and his recent readings in Cooper suggested 

 the w^riting of the familiar Xenie 'Den vereinigten Staaten (1827) : 



Amerika, Du hast es besser 

 Als unser Kontinent, das alte, 

 Hast keine verfallene Schlosser 

 TTnd keine Basalte. 



It may be permitted to mention here a very curious novellette, 

 'Eine wunderbare Geschichte und ein beriihmter Erzahler,' which 

 appeared before the year 1839 as the work of a Mistress Harriet.^ 

 In this work the aged Goethe is made to appear as guest in the 

 villa of a lady in Treptow near Berlin. There he relates a heart- 

 rending Indian tale a la Cooper which he had experienced upon 

 his youthful wanderings in the forests of North America, in the 

 " Wildernissen des grossen Westens!" When he had ended his 

 narrative, he brushed a tear from his eye, rose, silently took leave 

 of his hostess, and departed. 



Stifter. — In a lecture delivered before the International Con- 

 gress of Art and Science at St. Louis in 1904, August Sauer min- 

 utely traced out Cooper's influence on the novelist Adalbert Stifter 

 (1805-1868).^" Born and reared in the Bohemian forest, remote 



0 CI. ']Magazin fiir die Literatiir des Auslandes.' 31. .Tuli. 1839. I have been 

 unable to find any fnrther notice of this work. 



'Ueber den Einfluss d'er noi'damerikanischen Literatui- auf die deutsche.' 

 Printed in the '.lahrbuch der (irillparzer-Gesellschaft.' 10. .Tahrg. 1906. For the 

 relations between Cooper and Stifter here considered I am entirely indebted to this 

 article. 



21. ,Tohn schrieb an dor Novelle fort. 



22. ,Tohn schvi(l) an der Novelle fort. Der S|>i(in von Cs*o])er. 



23. Spion von Coop.-^r. 



24. An dem Roman foitgelesen. 



25. Fing- an di-^ (Jeschichte dov amerikanischon Revolution von Ra:r.sny zu 



lesen. 



Nov. 4. Fing an don IMloten von Cooper zu lesen. 

 10. Retouchirte das .lagdstiick. ; 

 20. Revisiui. dvi ,f iig(i NcivMle fortgesetzt. 



