From the time when Edward Everett in 1817 reviewed Goethe's autobiography in the North American Review Goethe has exerted his liberating and elevating influence upon many of the foremost minds of America. May this edition of his lyrics contribute to extend still further this influence, which is identical with the best of modern intellectual culture! And no one would rejoice more deeply in this than the great scholar and interpreter of Goethe to whose memory this book is gratefully inscribed.

J. G.

STANFORD UNIVERSITY,

July, 1901.