have entangled their private with the cause of american literature we counsel them to themselves as fast as possible in and elsewhere there is much inquiry for that great american literature what can have become of the least said is best a literature is no man s private concern but a and result is the affair of a power which works by a of and force to behold the race never dying the individual never spared � and every trait of beauty purchased by of private tragedy the in the wild gardens of nature is never many of the best must die of consumption many of despair and many be stupid and insane before the one great and fortunate life which they each predicted can shoot up into a and beneficent existence but passing tp a letter which is a generous and a just tribute to von we have it in power to furnish our correspondent and all readers with a sketch though plainly from np very friendly hand of tbe work of that lady who in the silence of and to hold a of genius io germany at last has the long expected of the here appeared it is true her name is not more is the this book to the king also the but partly because her genius shines so put of every line v because this work so directly to her earlier writings appears only as an of them none can doubt who the author is we know not how we should to the reader this most original work or we should say the von her eccentric under the person pf s mother the we the extract from the of the or september a letter whilst she is still a child who sits upon the shawl at the foot of the and devoutly to the mother of the great poet moreover does not conceal that she solely or at any rate principally her views from the and in fact it could not be otherwise since we come to hear the wisdom which makes a strange enough figure in the mouth of s mother if we mistake not the intimate intercourse with is also an essential impulse for von and we must not therefore wonder if the loses her way in pure philosophical wherein she herself of the known phrases of the school it is true she quickly herself again clothes her in poetical garb bravely to the visions or and this happens becomes a her in expressions and off in her cf sketches for the most part the whole dress seems only assumed in order to make the matter which is in the last degree radical less injurious as to the object of these sayings and reported from memory of the since she leads the conversation throughout our sketch must be short it is freedom which the truest being of man man should be free from all traditions from all since every holding on somewhat is spiritual the god s impulse to truth is the only right belief man himself should handle and prove since whoever on a matter has always a better right to truths than who lets himself be on the cheek by an of faith by sin she understands that which from the soul since every and the becoming of the soul in general art and science have only the destination to make free what is bound but the human spirit can rule all and in that sense man is god only we are not arrived so far as to describe the true pure man in us if in the department of religion this principle leads to the overthrow of the whole historical so in the political world it leads to the ruin of all our actual therefore she wishes for a strong as napoleon promised for a time to be who however already in when these conversations are ascribed to the had shown that instead of a world s he would be a world s makes variations on the verse and wake an a hero awake and in this sense is also her to read it were noble if a stronger one should come who in more beautiful moderation in clearness of soul and freedom of thought should plant the tree of where remains the if it is not the a letter of humanity that is the principle in her system the state has the same will the same conscience � for good and evil as the christ yet it itself away into of civil officers against one another the is the own the proof that ity as man has against humanity the old state s doctors who excite it to a will are also its disease but they who do not agree in this will and cannot struggle through relations are the against whom the state so long as it knows not how to bring their sound strength into harmony and precisely to those must it itself since they are its and restoration whilst the others who to it make it more sunken and if it be objected that this her truth is only a poetic dream which in the actual world has no place she answers even were the truth a dream it is not therefore to be denied let us our genius to this dream let us form an ideal paradise which the spiritual of nature requires at our hands is the whole fabric of state she asks only a worse arranged hospital where the selfish ot the ambitious would fasten on the poor human race the foolish fantastic of their for beneficent and with it the political economy so destitute of all genius to bind the useful with the beautiful on which these state s doctors themselves so much and so with their exhibit as a pattern to us a wretched picture of ignorance of selfishness and of when i come on that i feel my veins swell with 