t fills his mind. He converses
with a Grecian about morality. Everything from ancient times is present
to him; he learns to understand the old pictures and histories.
Conversation upon Grecian polity and mythology.

After becoming acquainted with the heroic age and with antiquity, he
visits the Holy Land, for which he had felt so great a longing from his
youth. He seeks Jerusalem, and acquaints himself with Oriental poetry.
Strange events among the infidels detain him in desert regions; he
discovers the family of the eastern girl (see Part I.): the manners and
life of nomadic tribes.--Persian tales, recollections of the remotest
antiquity. The book during all these various events was to retain its
characteristic hue, and recall to mind the blue flower: throughout, the
most distant and distinct traditions were to be knit together, Grecian,
Oriental, Biblical, Christian, with reminiscences of and references to
both the Indian and Northern mythology.--The Crusades.--Life at sea.--
Henry visits Rome. Roman history.

Sated with his experiences, Henry at length returns to Germany. He
finds his grandfather, a profound character; Klingsohr is in his
society. An evening's conversation with them.

Henry joins the court of Frederick, and becomes personally acquainted
with the emperor. The court would have made a worthy appearance,
portraying the best, greatest, and most remarkable men, collected from
the whole world, whose centre is the emperor himself. Here appears the
greatest splendor, and the truly great world. German character and
German history are explained. Henry converses with the emperor
concerning government and the empire; obscure hints of America and the
Indies. The sentiments of a prince,--the mystic emperor,--the book, "De
tribus impostoribus."

Henry having now, in a new and higher method than in the Expectation,
lived through and observed nature, life, and death, war, the East,
history, and poetry, turns back into his mind as to an old home. Front
his knowledge of the world and of himself arises the impulse for
expression; the wondrous world of fable now draws the nearest, because
the heart is fully open to its comprehension.

In the Manesian collection of Minnesingers, we find a rather obscure
rival song of Henry of Ofterdingen and Klingsohr with other poets;
instead of this, jousting, the author would have represented another
peculiar poetic contest, the war of the good and evil principles in
songs of reli