New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-29
MR.. EDWIN FORREST As ROLLA.


tillry and leaving US in full possession Of the shiks-
persp field Mr. Fo'res' appeared last evening at tbs
Broadway in TIE role Of RolIa in the play Of "Pi-
"zuro,v In which Rolls is the le.ding char.ctsr,
the scere s laid in Peru the thought Is laid in Ger
many, and thelapgusge is laid in Eogisnd . /.
The romen'ic chores of the Rhine attrast during
the summer months crowds of English and French
travellers The English, coming By tie way Of O,rend
TO Colorne, Ascend the Rhine TO The copfus Of Swift.
zerland, where in one Of the sp wkiiug brooks which
elis'en the Alps huge breast it takes its feeble
bbib, and may be seen sporting in the play of child
hood. The French, on tue other hand, coming by
the way Of Srssbourg, descend the Rhine O. far as
Ro'terd am, where it p'uDges, with gloriou, suicide
into the From Msysnce to Bonn the panorama
Of ruiDs and castles, toSerDg upon the vine clad
moubfsns along The shore, is full Of grandeur aud Of
beauty; and 40 many who read this will softly re-
member, touches the heart with a strange aud
be- utful sadness. From Strasbourg to Mayence, the
shores are ra'h,r mooOtcnous but some gay. bright,
symmetrical cities relieve the dulness OF the picture.
Perhaps the gay est, brightest, and most sy nDetrics
Of this tbropg is mannheim" which, from is prox-
unity 10 Bsden-Bsden and Heidelberg, is fsvorite
rsoTt for those in pursut Of pleasure or science. Foe
extraordinary cbeapress Of living, too, makes 1t pc
culaily attractive to those hosdts Of snobs from En-
glsDd who, reduced in their but not IN their
prtensioDs find here agraceful compromise bet Teen
psuperism and pride. The French, whose national
vsDi y seldom allows them 10 leave la be le
France except for purposes Of science or explor-
ing dis'aot lands, their idea OF their own beautiful
Land being too inflated TO allow them to appreciate
the besuiy Of any other, tbropg in lively Gro ~ds
on the upper part of the Rhine more than any
other portion Of the Continent, and you can scarce
ly walk a yard in the nobe market-plsce or
pleasant park without finding the air made musical
with that graceful language which has robed in such
light and brilliant dress the thoughts of Voare and
Racine Madame de Stael delighted with Mann
helm. Victor Hugo too, speaks Of the tow and its
vi Unity with an en'huiasm fjoy. From the steepe
Of lite gorgeous cathedral may be seen eide
Heidelberg with its glorious old castle and its noble
armies Of young students; and sleeping by its side,
with soft arm ebt~ned around it, the lovely alley Of
the Necksr. Ga the other, the Palatipe side, sits in
cheerful age the kind old town Of Worms-perhaps
the oldest town in Germany-every stone OF whose
pavement speaks eloquendy Of Luther Mannheim
is full indeed itself Of charming streets and graceful
promeDades and elegant buildings But perhaps the
spot OF most melancholy sweetness is that on which
the cemetery stands.
Among the many who looked upon and loved this
beautiful home of the dead, was whose presence
at once fixed you with strange attention, and some
thing akin to awe. She was a woman, frank, noble,
and bold In bearing, yet with such spiritual air and
divine breathing Of genius around her that after
while many came to look at the picturesque French
lady" as the Manufacturers called her. more even.
thbn at the lovely garden OF tomos. Inc authoress
of " Consuelo" was, by some fantastic spell, par
c uarly attracted to this yard of graves, aud she
loved, above ALL to lipger on one particular spot,
loI tho ninO.f nj ar
Of youth who, for love Of fatbesand sacrificed his
nature and sent dagger to the imp srioc heart Of
the man from whom Sheridan borrowed his Pizarro.
The fanatcs dessm OF this noble but dreamy youth,
made deep impression On the imagination of the
picturesque lady of Mannheim. The nobest effort
of her genius was written to commemorate his fate,
and in honor Of his memory she dropped the unr'-
mantle name Of Madame Dudevant" and adopted
that under which her fame was born and will live
George Sand.
Kot.ebue, though, by origin, German, was, by
relation aud interest," Russian. Like Goethe, he,
in public bent the knee to despOtism but in the prl-
vse sanctuary, worshiped hunsnity. Bat this
worship With one, as with the other, was purely
artistic and ideal. No sooner did humanity make an
effort to carry out in practice, the heorec IDEAS OF
their aspiration than they shrunk from 1t With the
came disgust that many of their ima'ors shrink fro
the great trial Of humanity here. These artists love
merely their own IDEAL and it, in its free, unfettered
prewib, Humanity, like bold beautiful child, plays
as lie natural come fantastic prank, then msudin ex
quisteness turns from II with sickly disgust. But
ike Holsters they have wonderful facility of falling
back upon Greece and Rome, and places where Id
mapity may be INDUCED in ideal, but not wrecked in
practice and thus Kotzebue has fallen on Peru Simply
because they are mere artists they have not grasp
of mind enough to perceive that that humanity which
is the idol Of their dreams advances or retrogresses
a. Ieedom advances or retreats, aud their nature
buoyant a. it is with intellectually, is not sufficiently
shook free from the heavy dross Of sci ish clay to
recognize In the republican movement Of the day,
not perhaps at present their artistica ideal, but
that which, with step and steady as the beat ng
of the tide, advances toward it. The heart Of these
men beats sound and true. Bat their brain reflects
only the creation Of their brain and does not catch
the sounding of the heart, without which that m'r-
riage Of sentiment and principle on which the pro-
eress Of mankind depends can never be mplshed
Without this union, the most gentle, generous and
refined virginisn-and, as a race, they are all 30
remains the advocate Of Slavery the most ntellec-
tual German like Gothic, bows down the slave Of his
own ideal, and the most sentimental dreamer, like
Kotzebue, worsb;ps the Car and becomes the abect
tool of Despothm.
Bot for Kotzeb7e this was q difficult task. He
loved travel with the romantic passion Of Bsyard
Taylor aud the more he saw how much uusel6shnen
and goodness delights and ennoblss mankind, the
more he loved it, and the more he loved to sp-
peal to mans noble nature seeing how easily i.
tcuchad This wall n latent failing Of