



Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive





Transcriber's Notes:
  1. Page scan source:
     http://www.archive.org/details/lostmanuscripta01freygoog
  2. Diphthong oe represented by [oe].






                          THE LOST MANUSCRIPT.






                                  THE

                            LOST MANUSCRIPT

                                A NOVEL


                                   BY

                             GUSTAV FREYTAG


        Authorized Translation from the Sixteenth German Edition
                        _COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME_


                       SECOND, UNALTERED EDITION


                                 PART I


                           *   *   *   *   *

                        "_A noble human life does not end on earth
                     with death. It continues in the minds and
                     the deeds of friends, as well as in the thoughts
                     and the activity of the nation._"

                           *   *   *   *   *



                                CHICAGO
                   THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY
               LONDON: Kegan Paul, Trench, Truebner & Co.
                                  1898






                        TRANSLATION COPYRIGHTED
                                 --BY--
                   THE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANY,
                                 1887.




                          PUBLISHERS' PREFACE.


Gustav Freytag has expressed the central idea of his novel _The Lost
Manuscript_ in the motto which he has written for the American edition:

"A noble human life does not end on earth with death. It continues in
the minds and the deeds of friends, as well as in the thoughts and the
activity of the nation."

This idea of the continuity and preservation of soul-life permeates the
whole work. It meets us at every hand. We observe the professor in his
study, ever eager to fathom the thoughts of the great thinkers of the
past and imbuing his students with