The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-09-23
THE OCTOBER MAGAZINES.
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'uThe Ghost of Ten Brock van der Heyden;"
'rMary Ann and Chyng Loo: Housekeeping
AN San Francisco" by Margaret Hosmer;
'Marie: a Poem," by Kate A. Sill; 'The
Great Monopoly" by Abram p. Eastlake;
PRUSSIA the German Nation, by Stephen
Powers; 'Irene: Tale, Part l; ''The Por-
cellan Fabrik at Meissen," by Helen W. Pier
son; "On the English Hastings" by George
M. Towle; "Blood Will Tell Tale, by o.
s. Adams; mexican "reminiscences" con-
cluded; "a Friends Meetings" ''To Atlantic
bidden: a Poem," by Edgar. Fawcett; 'Sir
Harry Hotspur of Humblethwate: Novel,"
Part VI by Anthony Trollope ''Gustave
Flaubert, the Realist, byW. P. Morras; ''Our
Monthly Gossip" Literature of the Day"
From me paper entitled 'Prussia the Ger
man Nation, by stephen Powers, we quote
the following
Prussia has always used more broadly
German and catholic policy than Austria.
One of the most notable features of Vienna
journalism is the absurd violenes with which
every German who was born twenty miles
away from that city is attacked as a ''for-
eigner." The great Count Won Beust, the
most astute Premier, and the one who has
given Austria the most splendid diplomatic
triumphs since Metternich, was stigmatized
as foreigner" because he came from Sax
ony. Prussia is never unwilling to be re-
deemed by any man of ability, especially if
he is a German; Austria will accept almost
any dotard born above the rank of baron,
especially if he is not German. Austrian
statesmen, like poets, are born, not
made. What q world of bitter sarcasm there
is in in the words of poor Sommerfeld!-'I
was in Austria, and had talents, but no pro-
lection" The looker-on in Vienna is strongly
impressed with the fact that while the au-
thorities have neglected to erect monuments
to Beethoven or Mozart, whose names are
known wherever music has power to
tame the savage, they have erected
one-the only one in the city raised in honor
of a civilian-to Joseph Pessel. And
who was Joseph Pessel every reader
asks in astonishment. Why, he invented the
screw, to be sure, by which mighty vessels
are propelled across the briny deep. Bee
thoven and Mozart did more than any other
men who ever lived toward saving that city
from the reputation of making the best meer-
schaums in existence, but then they were
foreigners, and Vienna does not know
them. If Austria is anything, it is nation
Of singers and lovers of good music, but as
for maritime matters, it lacks only one port
of being hermetically sealed up from the
OcednuS dtSS0ctd6iliS.
Prussia asks only these questions: is he
capable? Is he German? Indeed, when
the great University of Berlin was established,
learned men were invited to professorships
from nearly the whole civilized world. ''Mar-
shal Forward, Lebrecht Won Blucher, was no
Prussian, but Mecklenburger. 1t was one
of the few notable mistakes of Frederick the
Great that he did not discern the merits of
Blucher Little did the blunt old soldier
think, as he wrote on the back of paper
sent him by an obscure captain of cavalry,
complaining of neglect, Captain Blucher
can take himself off to the devil, that he
was slamming the door in the face of man
did not re-enter the Prussian service till Fre-
derrick was dead.
Gneisenau, the real planner of Blucher's
campaigns, was born in q Saxon barrack.
Soharnhorst, the author of the best military
system Europe ever saw, was Hano-
verian. Moltke, too, the great
est of living Prussian soldiers,
distinguished scarcely less as the perfect mas
ter of seven languages than as the victor of
Sadowa, is Mecklenburger.
The House of Hapsburg, being descended
on one side from the family of the Guises, is
only half German, it is true, but it has shown
even less appreciation of German talent than
has the House of Bourbon or the wholly
Italian family of the Bonapartes. 1t was
Duke Bernhard Won Weimer who added
Alsace to France. The great Marshals
SAKE and Schomberg were Germans both
and the gallant Kleber, who was assassinated
in Egypt, was an Austrian captain before he
was French general. Hausmann has done
more than any other man to secure France
against revolution. Meyerbeer, Kellerman
Weiss, Scholcher are illustrious names from
Germany.
Even the wholly Slavonic Russia has done
greatly more honor to German genius ano
learning than has the half Slavonic Austria
Kaufman and Berg are among her most dis
tinguished generals, and German professors
are found in her universities by scores, in
the most honored places.
In q word, then, all indications point
to Prussia as the only rightful regeneratol
and conserver of those Teutonic forces which
Austria and the petty princes have SO prodi
gally wasted. To Prussian statesmen every
thing that is German is exceedingly precious
while every other German government prac.
tically co-operates with France in scattering,
dissolving, dividing and frittering away the
noblest inheritance of Europe. In their mora
character and in the greatness of their simple
earnestness the Germans are worth infinitely
more than any other people on the Continent
but Prussia is alone "Great German" anC
every one else is ''Little German" which il
virtually not German at all. 81 am a Prus
sian" (the first words of the national hymn
is to-day the proudest utterance in the Ian
guage, and Germany will never be at its bes
till one tongue, and only one, is spoken from
the Baltic to the Adriatic. Then, and not til
then, will it have a government which will
look well to it that no German child shal
ever wander away and sink into the unfathom
able abyss of practical UnzuSaaanleng geh0rSgkel
for lack of an education in that language O
which Leibnitz says, ''at least it is honest
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