text:  Will the _un_philosophical English reader have patience with us for a few minutes while we endeavour to throw off a short sketch of the philosophy of Frederick Schlegel? If the philosophical system of a transcendental German and _Viennese_ Romanist can have small intrinsic practical value to a British Protestant it may extrinsically be of use even to him as putting into his hands the key to one of the most intellectual useful an popular books of modern times--"The history of ancient and modern literature by Frederick Von Schlegel "--a book moreover which is not merely "a great national possession of the Germans " as by one of themselves it has been proudly designated but has also through the classical translation of Mr Lockhart [D] been made the peculiar property of English literature