New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-10

snbisci matter minister He touched all tbs great
points the Of the human and here he bat
followed the tendency Of the wide culture OF Germany;
but he touched them with wand which brought them
all under light where the modern eye most 10
theu and here he gave lesson TO the culture VI
lGermany-sO wide 40 impartial that II II apt TO be-
slack and poweress and 10 lose itself in its mate
rias for want vi strong central idea round which
TO group all its other ideas So the mystic and roman
tic school Of Germany Lost itself in the Middle gee
was overpowered by their influence, came to ruin BY
its vain dreams of renewing them. Hene with lar
pIOionnder sense Of the myetic and romantic charm OF
the Middle Age than CORES, or Brentano, or Amin,
Heinc the chief romantic poet OF Germany Is yet also
much more than romantic poet; he is great modern
poet he is not conquered ~ the Middle Age, he has
taisman by which he car ieel-slong with but above
the power Of the fascinating Middle Age tsef-tbe
power of modern ideas.
Here is a life-like portraiture Of lleine, with
some piquant touches of his own as illustrations.
Heines literary good fortune was greater than that
Of Byron and Shelley. His theater OF operations was
Germany whose Philistnism does not consist IN her
of IDEAS in her nac.cssibty to ideas, 10, she
teens with them and loves them, but have said IN
her feeble and hesitatng application Of modern IDEAS TO
life Heines intense modernism, his absolute Freedom
his utter rejection of stock casscsm and stock roman
ticsm his bringing all things under the point OF view
of the nineteenth century were understood ana iad 70
heart by Germany through virtue OF her immense tol
Grant inteecualism much there was in all Heine said
to sfront and wounu Germany. The wit and erde:.t
modern spirit of France Hene Joined 10 the culture the
sentiment. the thought of Germany. IMs Is "hat
makes him remarkable; his wonderful cleafnesS'
ightness and freedom united with such power OF Zee.
ing and width OF range. IL there anywhere keener w
than in his story " the French able who was MS tuof
and who wanted 20 get from him that Ia ra'e'oh u
French for der CLAUDE Six times did he ask me the
question: Henry what is der Glaube in French ana
SIX times and each time with greater burst OF tears
did answer him Ii Is le credit And at the seventh
time his face purple with rage the inura'ed q"e -,
toner screamed OUT Ii IL Ia rtlsion; and aTsin Vi
cuffs descended upon me- and al the other boys Curs
ont laughing Since that day have never poem as 10
hear Ia rse zion mentioned without feeling treTn"r run
through nv back, and cheeks grow red with sans;
Or in that comment the fate OF Professor oaaeiu
who had been addicted 70 writing furious panlpne'S
against Napoleon. and who was professor ~ uo'in
gen great seat according TO Hene of pedantry anu
phstinism: ii is curious says Heine, the thiee
greatest adyersares Of Napoleon have all OF them ehaea
niseraby. Castlereagh cut HE own t5roaii io. So,
Eighteenth roited upon bis throne; and Professor oaA
field is still professor at Gottingen. IL Is inPo's''
20 go beyond that. -, o ,.s
heard. The Englishman loves liberty IKE his lawful
wife the Frenchman loves her like bis mistress the
German loves Der like his old grandmother. bul 'ne
turn Heue gives this Incompatible saying IL no, 10
Wen known and il il by that turn he shows himself the
horn poet he s-full of decacy and tenderness VI IN
exhanstibe resource. infinitely new and striking:
"And yot after ali. no one can ever tell nav Things
NAV tnrn out The grumpy Engshman, In an iil-ten'
per with his WIFE is capable of some day putting rope
round her neck and taking her to be sold at Smitahed
The inconstant FreDcbman may become unialthul 10
his adored mistress and be futtering about the
Palais Royal after another. But Me Gtrndn r'a ner~
quite abandon his old grandmother he viii always keep
for her nook by the shnneysorneI Where SIC can
| Is it possible 70 touch more delicatey ana hnppy
both the weakness and the strength OF Germany Pc
dantic. simple. ensayed, free, ridiculous adHraDie
Germany
We have few better things in the way of charac-
ter.drawing than Mr.. Arnold's summing up Of the
genius Of the erratic poet.
He died. and has LEFT q blemisbed name; with hif
r.rI. into
scrupnousnes in passion his ncoDceiyable attacks on
his enemies ais still more nconoeivable attacks on MS
ftienas, his want OF generosity his sensuaty MS IN
cessant mocking-how could IL he otherwisef MOI
only was he not Of Mr.. Car,yle's respectable
people he profoudi direspectable and not even
the merit Of not being siS Se
was an addition Of something else wanting, and THAI
something else something immense tn oldfash'
ioned laborious eternaly needfl moral deliverance
Goethe says that he deficient in tora TO me his
weakness 10 be not 80 much deficiency IN love
as deficiency in selfrespec in true dignity OF oharac-
Ter But on this negative side Of ones criticism OF
man Of great genius, for my part, when have once
clearly marked that this negative side In and must be
there have pleasure in dwelling prefer I" say OF
iieine something positive. He Is not adequate In
terpreter of the modern world. lie Ia only brilliant
soldier in the of iberston Of humanity. Bot such
he is heis land posery too am quite sre VIII say
ibis IN the European literature OF that quarter VI
century which follows the death Of Goethe incorpGra
bly, the most important hgure.
What spendthrit one 10 tempted to CRY. 10 Nature
With what prOdignty, In the march Of generations.
size employs human power, content to gather almost
always little result from IL, sometimes nonel Look at
Byron, that Byron whom the present generation Of
Englishnen forgetting; Byron. tho gleastest nat
ura force. the greatest elementary power cannot but
think which has appeared In our literature since
Shakespeare. And what became OF this wonderful pro-
duction ofnaiurel lie shattered hinse. he inevitably
shattered himself TO pieces, against the huge, black
clOud.topped intermnabe precipice OF British Phiis
tinsm. But Byron, il may be said, was eminent only
by his genuus only by his Unborn force and fire; he
bad NOT thu intellectual equipment OF supreme modern
poet; except for his genius he was ordinary nine
English ye1alems n with Little culture
had all the culture Of Germany in his head ermented
all the ideas Of modern Europe And what have We
got from Helmet hslf-resalt, for want OF moral bal
snce and of nobleness Of soo and character That is
what say there is much power. 80 many seem able
to run well. many give promise OF running well; 50
few reach the goal so few are chosen, Many called
}sr CHOSEN.
very agreeable essay is devoted to Joubert, a
Frcnchmsn OF high character, and greatintellecual
, ability and cultivation, who became known to the
public for the first time fourteen years after his death
BY posthunlous edition of his writings, superin-
tended by NJ. de'Chateaubriand. His story is well
told as follows.
Joseph Joubert born land his date should be re-
rnarked) in 1854 at MontigDac little town in Peri'
CORD. His father was doctor with small means ana
large family; and Joseph. the eldest had his own way
TO make in the world. He tor eight years "a pupil
first and afterward assistant master in the public
school Of Toulouse then managed by the Jesuits who
seem TO have left III him most favorable opinion mol
only of their tact and address, but OF their really good
qualities Al teachers and directors Compelled BY the
weakness Of his health 70 give up at twenty-five the
profession of teaching he passed two important years
Of his life in hard studnat homo at Montignsc; and
came ITS 10 try his fortune in the literary world OF
Paris then perhaps the most tempting field which has
ever yet presented itself To young man letters lie
knew Dider0t D'Alombert. Marnontel Laharpci ne
became intimate with OF the celebrities OF the next
literary generation then. like himself young man
friend the future Grand Master OF the