Excerpt from Madame De Stael, Vol. 3 of 3: Her Friends, and Her Influence in Politics and Literature French language, gave me a great deal to do, especially the continual but, ' and the attempt to make her meaning correspond with ours. I have finished now the work shall at once be printed, and you shall have it directly. Schiller replied, I am looking forward eagerly to your sheets of Madame de Stael. If space at all per mits I am also of Opinion that the whole should be published in one number. My comments could follow in the next. The reader will then have made his own, and will listen to mine with more interest. A few days later he adds I have forgotten to write to you about Madame de Stael. The production is written with much cleverness, and, as there are gleams of light rather than actual daylight in it, it lends itself to criticism. It would be difficult to bring harmony into it, and it would not repay the trouble. It might be tried in individual instances, and I have already selected material which will by no means be out of season. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.