In consequence of this, some of
the titles of the sections are not to be found in the original. I may
state, however, that the essays on _Authorship_ and _Style_ and the
latter part of that on _Criticism_ are taken direct from the chapter
headed _Ueber Schriftstellerei und Stil_; and that the remainder of
the essay on _Criticism_, with that of _Reputation_, is supplied by
the remarks _Ueber Urtheil, Kritik, Beifall und Ruhm_. The essays on
_The Study of Latin_, on _Men of Learning_, and on _Some Forms
of Literature_, are taken chiefly from the four sections _Ueber
Gelehrsamkeit und Gelehrte, Ueber Sprache und Worte, Ueber Lesen
und Buecher: Anhang_, and _Zur Metaphysik des Schoenen_. The essay on
_Thinking for Oneself_ is a rendering of certain remarks under the
heading _Selbstdenken. Genius_ was a favorite subject of speculation
with Schopenhauer, and he often touches upon it in the course of his
works; always, however, to put forth the same theory in regard to it
as may be found in the concluding section of this volume. Though the
essay has little or nothing to do with literary method, the subject of
which it treats is the most needful element of success in literature;
and I have introduced it on that ground. It forms part of a chapter in
the _Parerga_ entitled _Den Intellekt ueberhaupt und in jeder Beziehung
betreffende Gedanken: Anhang verwandter Stellen.
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