TRANSLATED FROM THE TEXT OF LESSING

WITH PREFACE AND NOTES

BY THE

RT. HON. SIR ROBERT PHILLIMORE, D.C.L.

WITH WOODBURY TYPE ILLUSTRATIONS

MOTTO BY LESSING.

Ὕλῃ καὶ τρόποις μιμήσεως διαφέρουσι.

Πλουτ. ποτ. ΑΦ, κατὰ Π. ἢ κατὰ Σ. ἔνδ.

MOTTO BY TRANSLATOR.

"Macaulay told me that the reading of this little book formed an epoch in his mental
history, and that he learned more from it than he had ever learned elsewhere."
LEWES, Life of Goethe, P, 57.

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.

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