The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-05-25

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tho great cacss match betweon !oapatin SMA KEN.
zIE and Q. II. STANLEY, and as chess ia one OF my
hobby horacs, must The intellectual fight on,
tho ohcauo.ed field.
Moro neIt time FROM. . - ! MOUITRIE.
i 5t NEW HOOKS.
"9N G TIE HI,oI1Isr by p5tTnoIA AyReeiO4 taosl4ted
mtg. For sale by John Buascn. - flEJ
Tho celebrated European re-publisher, Baron,
rAucpNrrs, hls. giYln us bore the first Of o nov
sores OF his worry beautiful llttlo Rnglsh volumes
this timo taoy arc to BIO transatons OF great Cor
man contemporary writer's Of fiction. Nov; when
intorcommunication between Germany and
England and America is becoming more mid more
sacile and general. a demand for stsh books will
warrant tho issue of large edItiohs, The faoIndity
Of tho German press hns become proretbial aud
thore among them many first-rate writers.
These aro road with great audity by Germans tho
world over. Mnny OF these works arc >6yeh ro.
published 10 very handsome style In NeWtYofk or
Philadelphia, And whom Germans begin Ito talk
so enthusiastically Of .AuEnBAoH, PRx1rAe,. aurz-
row, LEwALp1 Horny, lsf1rIuAora, oto., all dis
tngnished contemporary writer's Of fiction, Il 4s but
natural their English or American friendS and
| neighbors should have an interest awakened i'm
fayor, of the works of those maslers.y wo hope,
therefore, that, encouraged by, tho sucocas
Of tho present vohtuio; thei Islpzig pub
| lishers may Ieoi warranted In CITING us
q long and continuous aories Of al, the
bost works, ns they appear in Germany. But IL
we may be permitted q word OF advice, we would
caution them in the choice Of thoir translator,,
As rule There arc very few literary mon capable Of
,hnlilg a&ood trahslatioh. who will subject THEM
selres to tho drudgery Of suoh labor. The book
before US, "Qn tho Heights" which wS havo read
In It's oriHblai ourmuu, {'Aur dur Huno,-) fB
badly tTapalfted. TT l1 too literal and the1eSofo
often h6mey, and not unffequenty fGiis hls5sethsr
to convey tho d,licate shades Of aentment, psthos
or humorj found In thei inihitable ityleM M AuEn-
| BACH g
|, wo read this story In the original during last
year; and to soy wexWere charmed with II win
convey but On inadequate tdeaof the exquisite en-
loyment the perusa Of this book Afforded us; a.
hyperboical expressions Of praise or csusure aro
al soo common, 80 that when 10 really ana ta So
rious oarnost desirous Of expressing ourseIves
superlati'o oily, wo find 10 our diamsy that the ar
mamentarum has long aince been exhausted. The
London Times; In its notice Of this book, says that
mo German book over published has beon so wide
" and so eagerly read" Ihis ia high praise and
from O. competent source, I'VE fully endorse It.
Wo shan not attempt to give the story, nor even
ap outline Of it Nor Hhali We procood to criticise
i, for that were work Of s1pererogation. .AvEH-
DAti stands at the head OF 'Gormasni GSritefs OF
prose fiction. His tame is universal, and criticism
from us, 2r 2r from the eptire newspaper, press. In
America. would Affect him az little 10 it would
DICKENS or VIoTon HUoo. No, we adviBe our
readers to purchase Tho book and read, and assure
them that thoy will be amply repaid, arst, i'll tho
interest Of thp story ITSELF and secondly In .he in.
sight il igfes, them into e6temAorary German
Court life, End German thought and scntimont,
OF German lifc and Manners 40 faithfully illustra.
tod In thepoveh Of tho, Barohesu TAtrrnaus. and
by Ross BRdwNE and many other writer's Of tho
day, We have here but little: tAuKnninH is ever
ION the Heights" deals almost .e1cluniveiy With
the lofty, in thought or station, and II by hap
hazard he sometimes descsnds TO the tffatrs of
common Life, they sre thoroughly idealized that
10 Soon forget that they. are supposed to occupy
the sfme plano With us, and, in spite Of ourselves
look rpon thom as the creation Of . fairy fabric.
g, he scene is supposed to Re in BaYariat and the
lato King Lopls {of LOLA MqNrEx notoriety) is
generallsicpasdeFoa to haFp sas fertile picture OF
the heTo, Those Tho ero thoroughly p9nversant
place, can doubtons identity ali Of neatly III TIE
characters Of the novel But this Ia by 10 Means
Of the story. !. - =. - :,
As We have thus denied ourselves. and our read
orsHhd pleasuto pf running over thS outline Of he
story (which We may perhaps give some other
timo), ,.wo will compensate them by giving q sketch
OF the author, published In 1851, which We sbrideo
and translate from . raro volume entitled
"Judisches Athenmum." VI
| "tl ".t''.'" " sXKroH OF THE AUrHoa!.'S' q" 80
| Berthold Ausrbaeh was born Of Jewish parents
sSs @ Y EIssa IMSStSTEEsfs S Es ss.sE
%sni n' sS sGsH essSs as
Rabbi h ts oy susisd Ssss %ass
most tender yeara with the study OF the Taf1tt,d.
At 49, he won't 10 tho taimndlcaf seminary III the i
and then continued tbess aoSroW GSadaSS "a Sesd snd
s saISs t%s H5s e hs
Sassa etSasa af Il snt1ssa lse I'd dvSa'
sssnR ss so no%s Tsn
snsSs EnsSh 5ss gsesg der ppsG th5'sh
70 Stuttgart and ID 1884 he wont to the University
OF Heidelberg. Ho was radical In bis student
ms aSs brought h
hsperg. In 1888 hoswent to frankfort In 1910 to
Bonn, and then to Mentx. In ls4sho lived In Ber.
@ mpe sina Sna IN aS5 Il in Lepzs n dste he visited
&iSas as fho dot65df RSfoss sida M I'd saa
GssSa sssSEa s hS 3 8 Dss sa
aSni and 4 we are npt!p,staker r he obtained n Ran
years niterwards position st Tie PasiSn Coati oi
Once In which worry comfortable berth he has from
year 70 year since been engag god In writing eical.
ient fomanoes, and In forgetting that be had ever
b9en 9Ia an % %enthYsiastia demScrat., ,n &.
MS hIst attompt at. authorship was historical
romance Spinosan published In 1881 ..YoilbYed
BY his best thGIgh loist known BOOK hhisrohsaI
aeb Isst Uss snss s,ass gsa ,st t
natal 4psss Rphraan Kehr q lsmpori 81 81 sths
p4tl9sopHSr Moses MeItdolssoh = thoi stidy, 81
"Sp,noza Lead him ip 1910 to tanalate the -eitiro
fwork Of, that great thinker from the sIAbsn tpto
German. ~ t'.rt ti:s ie' sisuinpil 81 IpS,S'
Bpt A4erbaeh first becams popular tthf65aakh ii his
'.Daek Fereas Village Tales, ~ l&f 6ui
asnl SEatdfzudloe) pnblished. In islS, three edi.
tons OF whcn wore dshued III tho four years follow.
tngti Ihousahaa And thodsknd Of coplos Of this
popular entfon hASB binbe ,bo3n published in
speak hSrit st thssS gu HasSSs W tslst
sfri III. Tt - y, 9.s i. ~ ~ siI n