I have read about half of the New Testament in Luther's translation, and am now getting rapidly, for a beginner, through Schiller's History of the Thirty Years' War.

My German library consists of all Goethe's works, all Schiller's works, Muller's History of Switzerland, some of Tieck, some of Lessing, and other works of less fame.

I hope to despatch them all on my way home.

I like Schiller's style exceedingly.

His history contains a great deal of very just and deep thought, conveyed in language so popular and agreeable that dunces would think him superficial.
I lately took it into my head to obtain some knowledge of the Fathers, and I read therefore a good deal of Athanasius, which by no means raised him in my opinion.