GOTTHOLD E. LESSING--(Born in 1729, died in 1781.)

I Poetry and Painting Compared.

(From the preface to the "Laocoön." Translated by E. C. Beasley and

Helen Zimmern)

II Of Suffering Held in Restraint.

(From Chapter I of the "Laocoön." Translated by Beasley and Zimmern)