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ted with the great reformcr and his minis
terial functions, should thus be showed into
dark corner. st. Paul's, belonging to tho
University, is interesting principally for the
tombs of distinguished men.
Aucrbacho Wine cellar fronts on the mavket
place, opposite the end OF the quaint and ven-
cradle old City Hall We stepped down in
to it and took glass Of seller water, cool,
and foamy and refreshing, seated for the mo-
ment at tho table, the same table at which
Goethe and his crony fellow students are
said to have caroused in his youthful student
days, and which his genius has raised to i'm
mortality in the first characteristic scene of
Faust and Mephistophilcs, in hi, great dra-
matte allegory Of Faust. Faust, the philoso-
pher and man of learning, who had failed to
find in philosophy and letters and study those
enjoymcnts which selfish and sensual ambi-
ton had hoped for, sighed for his youth
again with - feeling which the poet in one
glowing thoughts which venture to render
thus
Oh give inc back those early days
When hope was all the world to me,
When gushing streams of youthful lays
Poured from my fancy wild and free,
When shadowy wells of mist concealed
The truth Of life from careless eyes
And in the buds l saw revealed
The flowers, their perfumes and their dyes.
| snatched the blossoms everywhere
That dccted the vale and fringed the stream
had cnough-no wealth, no care,
The love of truth, the joy of dreams
oh bring again the wild desires
That left my wearicd heart no rest
Return that heart with all its fires
All unsubdued within my breast,
The hate, the love I cherished then
Oh, give mo back my youth again.
He make. his league with the devil, by
which he is to be restored to youth again,
and with the devil for his companion and
obedient servant IS to enter upon the I'M
checked indulgence of youthful passions and
appetites. Their first experience was in Au-
erbach's wine cellar, where Mephistophies
exhibits his powers to the bacchanals who
are revealing there. He offers them their
choice OF finer wines than they are drinking,
and he bores gimlet holes through the spread
leaf of tho common wood table, about which
they arc calousing, and draws for each the
wine of his choice, Rhenish, Champagne,
Tokay-they ,astonished at this diablerie spill
some of the wine on the floor. 1t turns to
fame and in the midst of their bewildermen,
and rage Mephistophles and Faust leave the
cellar. There are rude drawings on the
walls-the table is there-diablerie and
magic are said-it is plain drinking cellar
in the market place, but the magic ofgenius
has written the names of Goethe and Faust
on that humble caredu, in letters thai
will not soon be obliterated, and traveller:
perhaps all along down the ages will drop in
there rs we did, and in the qualification OF
new curiosity keep it fresh as monument tai
honor to the great poet.
Had not desired to make some small pur.
chases in the middle of the day should not
have observed the singular custom which
seems to prevail of shutting the shops during
the usual dinner hour, so that master and
servant, principal and clerk, may all take
their dinner at the same time. Their shop.
are fine, snowy, and well supplied. but
small.
Yours, E. c.