The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-05-18
For the Standard.

es and letters to his wife, which will short
ly make its appearance. After steady re-
fusal for thirteen years-fOr so long has
Heine been dead-his widow has at length
consented to the publication of the MSS and
papers in her possession. This intelligence
is all the more agreeable, now that Heine's
Memoirs, formerly in the hands of his bro
ther, are in all probability locked up from
the public in the secret department of the
Emperial library at Vienna. Mr.. Strodt-
mann is entrusted with preparing the edi-
ton for the press. He writes to the Gar
tenlaube" that after endless pains he has fl
nally succeeding in collecting his material
from the chaos of waste paper, often in half
erased pencil marks and scarcely to be de-
ciphered characters traced by the trembling
hand of the invalid. By far the greater
number of these poems were written during
Heines last illness. That terrible mihilism
which was the final result of his develop
ment is sharply defined in two specimen
political pieces which Mr.. Strodtmann has
sent to the "Gartenlaube" for publication.
The following translation reproduces to
some degree in English the spirit of one OF
them:
The Wandering Rat.
OF two kinds is the rat,
The hungry and fat;
The fat ones remain quite contented at home,
The hungry ones emigrate, wander, roam.
They travel many thousand mile, s
All without haltiDg or rest the while; ~
Ever onward, the restless pack,
Nor wind nor weather can keep them back.
Over the mountain, oyerthe dale,
Over the widest seas they sail;
Some break their necks, but never mind,
The live ones leave the dead ones behind.
most terrible snout
Has each one of the rout;
Fraternal and equal, all even shorn,
And bare and bald as an oX's horn.
This anti society crew
Is neither heather, christian or Jew;
They never baptise their goddess brood
And their women are held as common good.
Such a sort OF rat
Is not troubled with fears about the devil or
cat;
They have no money they have no store
And they want to divide the world once more.
On US they come
With fife and drum,
And a rousng radical shot, no, no!
And surge like the sea when the tempesti
blow.
Too late,
They are the gate;
The Mayor and Alderman quiver and quake,
And nobody knows what course to take.
The citizens arm,
Wide sounds the alarmI
Religion, family, goods and land
Are at stake in the fight with this runmagint
band.
Bells, priests and prayers,
Solemn DEGREES and resolute airs
And rifed cannon, the latest make,
Cant save you to-day from the leveliing rake
Most interesting in prose will be sup
plement to the "Gods in Exile" q life sketcl
of the French writer Loeye Veimars and
number of suppressed papers out OF tn
Confessions" The letters were write
during his two visits to Germany in 1S4s
"A and furnish important and original bic
graphical matter. The aphorisms on Al
and Literature, Religion and Silence, th
State and Society, Women, Love and MAJ
riage, says Mr. Strodtmann, are the mos
valuable in the prose collection. He pull
fishes some specimens in the "Gartenlanbe,
from which we make few selections
Heine was himself an 1srealite)
sJewish history does very well, but tn
modern Jews damage the old ones. belleV
that if the race were extinct, and there exis
ted but single specimen somewhere upo
the earth, that people would travel thor
sands of miles to see it and shake its hand
"The certificate of baptism is the entr
ticket to European culture"
1.-THE earth is the great rock, upon whic
man, the true Prometheus, is chained, an
torn and mangled by the vulture of Doubt.
"Luther stirred Germany to Its foundl
tions; Sir Francis Drake greeted it again
he gave US the potato"
1.-THE German is like the slave who ODE.
his master without the fetter or the whip !;
bare wsrd, even. wink, is sufficient II
slavery exists within himself, in his SOU
worse than physical slavery is moral SLAYER
The German must be made free from with
from without profits nothing"
shave the most peaceful disposition. \
wishes are modest cottage, a thatch
roof, but good bed, wholesome food, mi
and butter, quite fresh, flowers before t
windows and few green trees before Il
door, and, if our kind Heavenly Father W
make me perfectly happy, let him perm
me to enjoy the pleasure of seeing six or Sc
en- of my enemies hanged by the necks up
these trees. With heart full of emotion
will forgive them before their death for
the evil they may have done me-yes,
must forgive our enemies, but not before tn
are hanged" Z