A HISTORY

OF

GERMAN LITERATURE

BY

W. SCHERER

TRANSLATED FROM THE THIRD

GERMAN EDITION

BY

THE GERMAN CLASSICS

FROM

THE FOURTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

F. MAX MÜLLER

3 &
3 8163

FROM

THE FOURTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

WITH BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, TRANSLATIONS INTO

MODERN GERMAN, AND NOTES

CORPUS PROFESSOR OF COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD