...ve spirit of movement and progress finds in his works little that attracts sympathy. It is to be remembered in the same connection that Longfellow, in 1837, wrote to his friend, George W. Greene, of Jean Paul Richter , the most magnificent of the German prose writers, and it was chiefly on Richter that his prose style was formed. In June he left Heidelberg for the Tyrol and Switzerland, where the scene of Hyp...