New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-12-19

enough Of the cOsmOpOhte 10 ENJOY me nOs' widely
separated spheres Of travel and it is scarcely likely
that be will remain very long at home while bis ma
tue retains s present buoyancy and restless activ-
ify Of life.
Dresden 10 at present the literary capital Of Ger
m.pv. although the King of Bavaria by drawing
around him such men as BodeDs adj aud Geibel,
,eels TO secure that distinction for Munich. Frey
toy. tie author Of thai admirable novel, "SoH sad
Hattn" (not yet translated, beieve), resides 10
Leipsc, and Mdgee, whose "Afrsjs" has charmed
Anne rican readers, in BerliD but in Dresden are
grouped Auerbacb, Gutzkow, DR.. Andfee, Wolfs-
sohn, julius Hammer aud Otto Roquette, beside
Professor Reicbehbach Stenle, the engrsve;, Dahl,
the Old Norwegian painter, and host Of other art
hts. was fortunate enough to find the pass word
to his charmed circle Authors and ar asts have
the same masonic signs all over the world, and the
cloud of smoke which filed their private hall Of
meeting in the rear of the Cafe de Europe was the
same familiar atmosphere which my fellow Centu-
lions are won't to inhale at home.
AUFRBACH, whose Dortgesciichten" Village
Stoiies) from the Black Forest have a European
reputation is q short, broad -shoudered muscular,
rudy faced man, about thrty-slx years Of age.
His eyes are large, wide apart aud bro@nish-gray,
and the lower part Of bis face is comfortably engel
Oped in shOrt, thick bro beard. He is one Of
those hale, honest, clear-seeng natures, Of which
there are too few in the world-a mixture of keen
intelligence and child like simplicity and nsise.e,
such as We Id in the dramatists of the Elizabethan
oge. He knows the woods and mountains too well
to be fettered by the ftgid conventiopaites which
rule the talk of society. He is ton unconscious of
them even to notice them with his scOrn; but
speaks straight from the heart, whatever comes
frat, and everything as it comes-fun earnest
satire, enthusiasm. He says many good things,
and even where he hits pretty sharply, is 30 genial
and true.hearted thereby, that no wound is efs
behind.
/ was delighted to find how Immediately Auer
bach and my sailor BREASTED understood each other.
Authors have perhaps the truest instincts of char
acter in other men, but those who lead free life
in close communion with nature-hunters, sailors
and lumbermeD, who can dare to act without sub
terfUge, compromise or even the ordinary cOnsid.
eratOns of worldly prudence-are scarcely less
correct in their sympa,hies. They may be unable
to appreciate particular ranges of intellect, but
they read character at glance. The German au-
thor and the American sailor, in spite of their to-
tally divergent lives and experiences of mankind,
knew each at first sight, with as just an estimation
ss the literary friends of the or the aiih'ulest
shipma,es of the other, after years of familiar in
tercOurse.
DR.. KARL ANDREE, the dstil guished geOgrapher,
was in one respect wonder to me. There is not
a man in Europe, venture to say and not great
many in some parts Of The United States, who pos
sets such an intimate knowledge Of our country
and its Institutions its geography its statistics,
and its social snd political life. 1t was curious to
sit in his library in Dresden, knowing that he had
never crossed he Atlantic, and to hear him discuss
the alterations of American editors, and reveal
the wire.wOrkiDg of our demagOeues and political
jugslers, even 10 the smallest. l was sorry to find
that, at this distance, he had allowed himself
to be drawn into the vortex Of our party excite
ment, and to be Disled into an attachment for b.
chanan; but there are too many at home in the
same predicsmeDt. Andree is at the same time
one of the hardest workers and best companions in
the world-a mixture which / wish were more
common in America. We have the workers in
plenty but work too often rObs US Of the social
amenities of life.
In company with Ziegler called upon GUTZKOw,
the drsmatist, who unquestiOnably stands at the
head of living German writers for the stage. His
play of "Ztyf und Sehcert" Queue and Sword)
has for many years kept q place on the boards of
all the theaters between the Alps and the Baltic.
He is small man, forty years Of age, with blonde
hair and mustache gray eyes, forcible nose, and
an expression In which keenness and clearness Of
mental insight is predominant. Judging BY his
face, should say that he is patient, persevering
and conscientious in execution sharp and rapid in
his appreciation of what he needs and can use, but
effective rather through his outside knowledge of
men and of life, than from much power aud warmth
Of passion in himself His bearing was courteous
and kind, but he impressed me like clear Winter
morning after feeling the mellow Summer glow Of
Auerbsch.
WOLFssoHN whose recent success ~ a dramstist,
in his play of Nsr cine Ssele" (Only Soul), has
delighted his friends, and brought him what true
success always brings-envy-is also distinguished
for his TRANSACTIONS from the Russian. He resided
fox some time in Moscow, and has made his know
ledge of Russian life very effective in his plays
which are mostly Rossian in subject. He il quiet,
genial studious man, and I regretted that tempo
rary indsposition prevented from seeing as much
of him ~ wished.
JULIUS HAMMER is the author of volume Of
poems entitled "Sehax IN Dich ssd Sehan um
DID" (Look within thee and around thee) 1t is
one of the most successful Of recent books of Ger
man poems, having rapidly run through FIVE edi-