The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-04-30
Selections.

WHAT MAKES YOUNG MEN DRUNK
ARDs.-Go with us to the public houses
where number of young men are assem-
bled. All is life and gayety. A few
among them may be young and tlmld
They approach the counter, and wine
rum and brandy are called for. One o.
two stand back, and say, mo gentlemen
we don't drink please excuse us I'm
mediately the rest turn and begin t.
taunt their friends who refuse to drink
saying they are afraid of getting
tight - of the old man." and some
whisper audibly, We'll they are mean
fellows: they are afraid they will have
to spend dime!" Here you see two
very sensitive nerves are touched
Courage and Cleverness. Their DO,
SONS swell with pride rather than bear
these filings of companions, they stand
ND to the counter and JON in the revel-
ry. The ice is now broken, the first
great act OF the drama performed. -
Others follow in natural order, until the
individual who refused to drink at first,
reels along the public street without
shame"
This is the manner in which thou
sands of our promising young men are
led away by false ambition; and thou
sands more will follow in their path UNI
less they learn the meaning Of cour-
age.
We have in our mind number OF no.
BILE hearted, good meaning men, who
do not posses strength enough to face
opposition. Rather than be called
mean they will follow up these habits
of drinking until the appetite became
uncomfortable.
We advise you young men, when
you are in company, and solicited to
drink Intoxicating liquors, to say frank
ly and decidedly that YOU do not in
dulge in such things, and YOU command
their respect, and they will be forced to
admit that your courage is sufficient to
bear all their taunts and not yield the
night. Those who stem the tide always
meet opposition but never despair
press onward. Our only hope otrescu-
ING the race from this brutal. slavish |
passion rests with the young. VIII Won, |
young friends, have courage, true, high !
and God-like courage to face this grow
ing evil and Danish it from our land ?
MADAME CLARA MUNDT-HiStorical !
fiction, which Walter Scott may be said
to have created in English, has been a
novelty until recently in German liter
ature. The lady whose nom de plume
is Louise Muhlbach, really is Madame
Clara Mundt, now tifty.three years old
Gf we may be so bold as to mention
woman's age), and is the wife of Theo-
dore Mundt, professor i'll the University
of Berlin, and in charge Of the library,
and, as novelist, esSayiSt, historian and
editor, an acknowledged chief, in litera-
ture, of the Dung Germany section of
thinkers and writer's. Madame Mundt.
one of the earliest " strong-minded wo-
men" in Prussia, published her first
work of fiction in 1S49, and has contin-
ued up to the present time issuing a
new novel or romance about every nine
months. Her first novel had Appra
Behn for its heroine. but she broke into
new ground, of German historical ro-
nance, in her second work, entitled
-" ohm Cautiously, tie Merchant of
W
published by Messrs. Appleton, in the
new, uniform. and handsome series of
her works, spiritedly translated, which
they are now issuing
Lonise Mhulbach differs very much
from Walter Scott, Bulwer. James.
Thackerav, Dickens. Horace
Smith and other English historical nov
elists, in the literalness Of her romances.
Like them, she always rests upon an his:
torical basis, hut while they. more or
less, have founded fiction Il pom the facts
of history, sometimes taking liberties
with dates and events. this ladv's 70
nance is conscientiOusly accurate. Sic
trusts very little to imagination. and
even when she invents i scene Is appar-
emily uneasy unless she can show some
Justification Of its events from acknowl-
edged authorities. Now and then. .
when she has been especially spirited.
and we have thought, I" here she has
given the rein to fancy" we are repuIs-
ed with foot-note, citing the authori-
" for what she had written. At the ,
same time, reliable romance. though the |
public are not accustomed to it, is ofno
small value. Thanks to Louise Null
bach, the readers of her best works of Z
fiction will have a very accurate idea Of !
The personfges she treats of and the I
lines she illustrates.
"Frederick the Great and his Fami- '
y" the fifth of Louise Muhlbach's his t
;orical novels, treats Of Frederick i'm :
nediately before and up to the close of S
he Seven Years. War, which lasted q
rom 1855 to 1863. Incidentally, the 5
amous Baron Trenck, the beloved of a
he Princess Amelia of Prussia, is intro E
luced, but it essentially exhibits the TO-
mantle scenes ofthat great contest, with |
is failures and triumphs. f