The Campaner Thal, and Other Writings. Jean Paul

       FOURTEENTH LETTER-BOX.

       CHAPTER LAST.

SCHMELZLE'S JOURNEY TO FLÄTZ.

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      Preface.

       Circular Letter of the proposed Catechetical Professor Attila Schmelzel to his Friends; containing some Account of a Holidays' Journey to Flätz, with an Introduction, touching his Flight, and his Courage as former Army-Chaplain.

      Journey to Flätz.

      First Stage; from Neusattel to Vierstädten.

      Second Stage; from Vierstädten to Niederschöna.

      Third Stage; from Niederschöna to Flätz.

      First Day in Flätz.

      First Night in Flätz.

      Second Day in Flätz.

ANALECTS FROM RICHTER.

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       The Happy Life of a Parish Priest in Sweden.

       Dream upon the Universe.

       Complaint of the Bird in a darkened Cage.

       On the Death of Young Children.

       The prophetic Dew-Drops.

       On Death.

       Imagination untamed by the coarser Realities of Life.

       Satirical Notice of Reviewers.

       Female Tongues.

       Forgiveness.

       The Grandeur of Man in his Littleness.

       Night.

       The Stars.

       Martyrdom.

       The Quarrels of Friends.

       Dreaming.

       Two Divisions of Philosophic Minds.

       Dignity of Man in Self-Sacrifice.

       Fancy.

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES.

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       Reminiscences of the best Hours of Life for the Hour of Death.

       The New-Year's Night of an Unhappy Man.

       The Death of an Angel.

       A Dream and the Truth.

       The Beauty of Death in the Bloom of Youth.

      THE

      Campaner Thal;

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      OR,

DISCOURSES ON THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

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      TRANSLATED BY JULIETTE BAUER.

      "Report also, we regret to say, is all that we know of the Campaner Thal, one of Richter's beloved topics, or rather the life of his whole philosophy, glimpses of which look forth on us from almost every one of his writings. He died while engaged, under recent and almost total blindness, in enlarging and remodelling this Campaner Thal. The unfinished manuscript was borne upon his coffin to the burial vault; and Klopstock's hymn, Auferstehen wirst du! 'Thou shalt arise, my soul!' can seldom have been sung with more appropriate application than over the grave of Jean Paul."--From Carlyle's Miscellanies.

INTRODUCTION.

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      In my distilling processes, I frequently precipitated the phlegma of our earthball--its polar deserts, its Russian forests, its icebergs--and from the sediments extracted a beautiful by-earth, a small satellite. If we extract and regulate the charms of this old world, we can form a delightful though minutely condensed world.

      For the caves of this miniature or ditto-earth, we will take the caves of Antiparos and of Baumann, for its plains, the Rhine provinces--Hybla, Thabor,