...reshaped the study of the Greek language and transformed the "body" of the older grammarians into "spirit." My partiality for the subject and for our scholars of the fatherland prompted me to draw the attention of friends of Greek literature to this in advance. The author, to whom that notice in the Göttingische Anzeigen The Göttingische Gelehrte Anzeigen was the oldest and one of the most influential scholarly review journals in the German-speaking world. has perhaps not yet come to hand, will hopefully forgive me for this announcement and not consider it an act of presumption.

Several knowledgeable scholars, with whom I have consulted on the matter, can testify that the manuscript of Hezel's Detailed Greek Grammar, along with the appendix titled Paradigms of Greek Declensions and Conjugations in Thirty-Five Tables, has been in my hands for a long time. They can also attest that the printing has been delayed partly due to other necessary works, and partly because I intentionally did not think it best to deliver such an important work at the Michaelmas Fair The Michaelmas Fair in autumn was one of the two major peaks of the German book trade calendar.. To prevent, as much as possible, the invention from being contested against the Privy Councilor of the Government, Hezel, I have presented the entire complete manuscript to the local Electoral Judicial Office. I requested a certificate proving that it has been in my possession for this long, and that the later public announcement of that hypothesis in Germany was due merely to circumstances of delay. I am depositing this certificate in the office of the Jena General Literary Gazette, and I am also ready to deliver the original manuscript, signed by the Judicial Bailiff, along with a printed copy immediately after the work is published.

Furthermore, another no less important work by the same author will appear from my house at the next Easter Fair, titled: On the Oldest History and Language of Greece. Lovers of Hezel's writings may order both works at their local bookstores.

The Hours, a monthly periodical, composed by a society and edited by Schiller.

At a time when the nearby noise of war alarms the fatherland, where the conflict of political opinions and interests renews this war in almost every circle and all too often frightens away the Muses and Graces, and where there is no escape from this all-pervading demon of statecraft in either the conversations or the writings of the day, it might be as daring as it is meritorious to invite the distracted reader to a conversation of a completely opposite kind. In fact,

the circumstances of the times seem to promise little success to a publication that imposes a strict silence upon itself regarding the favorite theme of the day, and which seeks its glory in pleasing through something other than that which pleases everyone now. But the more the narrow interest of the present sets spirits in tension, constricts, and subjugates them, the more urgent becomes the need to set them free again through a universal and higher interest in that which is purely human and exalted above all influence of the times, and to reunite the politically divided world under the banner of truth and beauty.

This is the point of view from which the authors of this periodical wish to have it regarded. It shall be dedicated to a cheerful and passion-free conversation, and grant a joyful diversion to the mind and heart of the reader, who is now indignant and now depressed by the sight of contemporary events. In the midst of this political tumult, it shall form a narrow, intimate circle for the Muses and Charitinnen The Charites (or Graces) were the Greek goddesses of charm, beauty, and nature., from which everything stamped with an impure partisan spirit will be banished. But while it forbids itself all references to the current course of the world and to the immediate expectations of mankind, it will question history about the past world and philosophy about the world to come. It will gather individual features for the ideal of refined humanity—which is tasked by reason but so easily lost from sight in experience—and it will be as busy as possible in the quiet construction of better concepts, purer principles, and nobler customs, upon which all true improvement of the social state ultimately depends. Both playfully and seriously, this single goal will be pursued in the progress of this publication; and however different the paths may be that are taken toward it, all will be directed, more or less distantly, toward promoting true humanity original: "Humanität". We will strive to make beauty the mediatrix of truth, and through truth, to give beauty a lasting foundation and a higher dignity. As far as is feasible, we will seek to free the results of science from their scholastic form and make them understandable to common sense in a charming, or at least simple, veil. At the same time, however, we will go out upon the stage of experience in search of new acquisitions for science, and there search for laws where only chance seems to play and caprice to rule. In this way, we believe we contribute to the removal of the dividing wall that separates the beautiful world from the learned world to the disadvantage of both, introducing thorough knowledge into social life and taste into science.

One will, so far as no nobler purpose is thereby...