Thus his novel, _Faust's Leben, Thaten und Hoellenfahrt_, was actually first published at St.Petersburg in 1791.

This was seventeen years before Goethe published his first part of _Faust_, a book which by its exquisite poetry was to extinguish for all self-respecting Germans Klinger's turgid prose.

Borrow, like the translator of Rousseau's _Confessions_ and of many another classic, takes refuge more than once in the asterisk.

Klinger's _Faustus_, with much that was bad and even bestial, has merits.

The devil throughout shows his victim a succession of examples of 'man's inhumanity to man.' Borrow's translation of Klinger's novel was reprinted in 1864 without any acknowledgment of the name of the translator, and only a few stray words being altered.[62] Borrow nowhere mentions Klinger's name in his latter volume, of which the title-page runs: Faustus: His Life, Death, and Descent into Hell.