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Augustus; Remarkably talented Prince; Educated at Geneva; Great Antiquarian; Good Linguist, 110—Numerous Accomplishments, 111—Compositions of the Duke, 112—Eccentricities; Correspondence with Madame de Staël, 114—Napoleon’s Visit to the Duke at Gotha, 118—Anecdote of the Duke, 119—Correspondence with De Zach, 120—Marriage of his Daughter Louisa to the Duke of Coburg, 122.

Frederick IV.; Ill Health of the Prince; Residence at Rome; Conversion to the Roman Catholic Religion; Consequent Inability to Reign; Duchy governed by Minister von Lindenau, 122—Death of Frederick IV.; Interregnum; Accession of the House of Coburg to the Duchy of Gotha, 122

Historical Sketch of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg, including Biographies of the Reigning Duke, His Royal Highness Prince Albert, &c. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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LETTERS FROM THURINGIA.

Letter I. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Description of Thuringia, 153—Thuringian Peasants, 154—Their Customs, Songs, Native Poetry, 156—“Der Freischütz” of Weber first sketched out in Thuringia; Wieland—his Oberon, 157.

Letter II. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Thuringian Music and Musical Instruments, 159—Peasant Rhymes, 160—Taste for Flowers and Birds; Skill in Teaching the Bulfinch; Superstition of Peasantry, 161—Thuringian Dialect, 162—Epithalamium of the Gotha Scholars, 163.

Letter III. .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .

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Castle of the Wartburg, 165—Interior of the Old Banqueting Hall; Seneschals Daughter; “Sänger Kreig,” or famous Poetical Contest in the Thirteenth Century, 166—