Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- CHAPTER I. EARLY YEARS. 1752-1781 -- CHAPTER II. THE HOME OF THE BOOK-TRADE -- CHAPTER III. AN AUTHORS CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETY. 1781-1785 -- CHAPTER IV. GOSCHEN'S START AS A PUBLISHER—ADVENT OF SCHILLER —BUSINESS AND ROMANCE. 1785 -- CHAPTER V. A BEGINNER'S LIST—SUCCESSFUL, BUT OVERWORKED. 1785-1786 -- CHAPTER VI. A POET-EDITOR—FRESH CLIENTS. MICHAELMAS, 1785, TO EASTER, 1786 -- CHAPTER VII. A VETERAN AUTHOR. 1786 -- CHAPTER VIII. GOETHE. JUNE, 1786—EASTER, 1787 -- CHAPTER IX. THE TWO PARTNERS—SCHILLER BUSY—AN UNPROFITABLE VENTURE—A HEAVY STRAIN. SEPTEMBER, 1786—EASTER, 1787 -- CHAPTER X. PIRATE PUBLISHERS. EASTER, 1787—EASTER, 1788 -- CHAPTER XI. GOETHE'S COLLECTED WORKS—GOSCHEN'S BREACH WITH GOETHE—A LAST CHANCE MISSED. 1787-1791 -- CHAPTER XII. LOVE AND MARRIAGE. 1787-88 -- CHAPTER XIII. SCHILLER AND WEIMAR—UNION OF FORCES—RIVAL PERIODICALS. EASTER, 1787—EASTER, 1788 -- CHAPTER XIV. A FASCINATING FAMILY—RAIDS ON GOSCHEN'S PURSE— SCHILLER A JENA PROFESSOR—THE PUBLISHER'S PROGRESS. EASTER, 1788—EASTER, 1789 -- CHAPTER XV. GOSCHEN AT BAY—WIELAND—SOME FINE SEED-PLOTS. EASTER, 1789-1791 -- CHAPTER XVI. SCHILLER'S MARRIAGE—THE HISTORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR. 1789-1791 -- CHAPTER XVII. SCHILLER'S TASK-WORK CLOSED—GERMANY AND THE REVOLUTION—LITERARY PROJECTS. 1792-1793 -- CHAPTER XVIII. PERSONAL