The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-25 00:00:00

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Killpe prods°, a great an t ups old Europe, but
eatin many a throb in the breast of Young
Germany.Heiso repreeented Young Germany in its
most bnlliant phase. Although he tried most ear-
nestly daring the few bet yeses of kis 10e to trans-
form himself into a Frowebmee—to bosses the
repromatative of Freese Mme of uli le sett sad
literatnro—lie never ensessieL The oil UNside der
raster still slung to Moped wee visible thaewsb ell the
with whisk be thought be bed seessalod
; t: veat
adoption of the mad &ebbs. of the New-
'Biplane. To the English rosier Heine le almost
unknown. To the great mass of the English public
he would be utterly unintelligible. Nevertheless, to
those who would wish to Musk an insight into the
working of the keelson of the Thong Germany of a
few yeas book Heine is a noteworthy personage.
He exercised as infinesce over the minds
of the young Germans of education in hie
day, certaiely not inferior to that which
Byron exerted over the British youth of his
time. It would be affair, however' to compare the
influence of Byron with that of tho Apostles of
Young Germany. Let on. of the most distinguished
of the latter speak for himself. Mart, who repre-
sents the sew faith in its greatest intensity, thus
speaks of the intention of himself and him associates :
" To attack, irrespective of all 000sequenees, not only
existing institatioes in Chorea and State, but Church
and Beate themselves; to make workmen the ene-
mies of God; to inflame them spinet all existing
relations; to annihilate all feelings of religion.
" The transcendental consciousness of God," says the
same author, "is the oorner-etone of our whole
worm-eaten society. Bo long as men cling even by
• filament of thought on heaven, there will be no
salvation on earth.'

It may be said that Heine did not advocate views
like this in all their oak/doses. He confeeeed in his
latter years that monarchy might be the best form of
government, and that something might be said in
favour of religion. But he had educated the mind
of Young Germany before he made them confessions,
and the evil that he effected was never to be cured
by his later writings.
He was born in 1799, at Dusseldorf, of Jewish
parsed& At the age of 28 be recanted his faith,
and prohered the Christian religion. Nothing that
he ever said or did can lead us to the conclusion that
the recantation meant anything more than a deter-
minatioe to get rid of the disabilities which Judaism
inflicted upon its professors in Germany. At the
outbreak of the revolution of 1830 he betook himself
to Paris, bathe seemed soots to sicken of republican
ideas. He gave up his role of politician and
Bugg himself with enthusiasm into the pursuits of
literature. His poems, published between 1830 and
1834, are without doubt the most original produo-
times of modern German literature. They are fan-
tastic in the highest sense of the word. They deal
with the mast grotesque sad, occasionally, the most
awful of Was. They treat all the ordinary laws of
rhythm with contempt, and yet have a strange melody
of their own. Their effect in Germany was remark-
able. They led the soul of Young Germany captive,
sad the coastry is only slowly recovering from their
deeeseelhingr effPcts. It is well perhaps for the rising
of rucro that Heine is untranslatiable.
Cals:r is sopeculiarly his own that it can be imi-
tated in no other language. We should as soon
venture to translate a soog of Burns into the language
of a drawing-room at the West-end as to offer a ver-
sion *tone of Heine's lyrics. He died at the age *lB7,
after having exercised an influence over the mind of
his conatrymen which will be felt for years, and
which it will require a genius equal to his own to
counteract.

A meeting of the theatrical profession, and of the
Ideate of the drama, is to be held at the AdelpSl Theatre,
Si the nth Mardi. Sr. Charles Dishes, presiding, to take
tate amasbleratlea the mat sePraatigaroe mass of moot-
kg the Skin to • /mall share of the additional distribatioa
of the foods sad neesen of the eliarity of " Goa's Gift,"
Amadei, built. sad eadewed at the eels east of Zdeard
Alleys, the soar.

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