, 1870-01-30
FAMOUS EUROPEANS.
Written FIR The cAteo0o 71Suut.

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well SpoNu- lie heaIs this class spoken Of II
terms that astouIsn him when acunhnted With
their workk nd be begins 10 have = sort Of con.
tempt for the kind Of people who net up such
tdolk Frel1tg1sih u An instance of the sort Of
heroes created BY morbid political dlsco2tent fed
On bad rhymes and fosternd BY newspaper indu-
cuec, who are hailed n patriots and oocaslonllly
nade the recipients OF comfortable incomes,
"from 4 grateful county" Grateful for FnAt
5n Fteiitgrsth's case l have never heen able t,
dlIoovef, though the story OF hi life hls bean
repeated 10 me scorez Of timer BY hiA enthasiasuc
friends, and, Whist HA1 Of more lmportances BY
his enemies. Hia name il more familiar to
Ane,ical cars than tAAt OF many more
worthy OF uanIAtIautc repnis:ion,
nwtrF, pethAos, to the number Of nis counnymenr
who, implicated IN the reVonuon OF rs. csme 70
thin county when he retired TO England. Owing,
alko, to the fsct that he uansla.ed LongfeloWs
"Httwash1," and, moreover, did II 60 well. Pre-.
strEIDg I'll the pecnartes OF ssyls and rhythm
the grateful American Aothot-a2perclxdnR
The rzr1ty OF good tlAuslstx-aaA In tim, ram
desed few OF The lAttell ehort poems into Egg
Asn better than the original in their composition
FreIllgrath Is native OF Dasuold- He began
mercantile lie IN Amsterdam. but soou tired OF It
acd removed to the RHINE, where, In Cologne
Weluar DarmBtadt And Dtusela be spent the
Yeara tetxeen 1870 AID tS4i, deyounR hiuaelf to
Literary career.
HIS poems attracted attention, owing to hts
1s,her uuus7sl command Of metaphor and lin.
E1i tic crcumlecuion- There was eott OF In.
teleet1nl dea1ta 1t that period OF German conpo-
sl'Iou, which partially e1pains bis succefs II we'll
as that OF The respectable uedlocr:y Represented
t,y treh men as Lsnoe, Prut1, p!ngel-
s,edt, ntd tne't colahorerI- The umes made
II en-. They h=lred, also, TO make the times
Iatber a nuisxtce 10 all Ia high places,
fur tEeJ patIted all 6uch arlsto:faa ~ Etnzs and
RoseErors In the livery Of thst distinguished lr-
divsdual dwelling IN = hot climate, Ia wno1a per.
souslity It Il part OF orthodoxy to believe. FrnI-
liErsth was pefsecuted on account Of his radcalsm
expressed In rhyme, and although one Ut this day
can scs;cs conceive OF his political poems having
ever lntplred the altehteat enthusiasm in humau
aou!l ELL the government, ,al9sys then nylnX from
thsdowR, imagined both author and rnJme dan.
gerous in the extreme So he was driven from
prussiA 70 Switzerland, from Switzerland to Ian.
don, and for several yea,s spraag SORT Of mine
upon the authorities BY tpasuodto ret1rDs to tho
Rhine untl he WAS obliged to return to London
IN 1851. on account Of the obnoxious character Of
cer9sin poems Retrospective ard prophetic In
character.
FreiitgFlth4 + personal Intimacy with such m5u
a. KiLAel and Rltte.haus has helped 10 renew
htn Wat1Dg popularity II his naive land Ths
frieIdsbIp with kiu1ci, It Is well known, Wal
broken upor the death OF ksnkela noble. talented
WIG NOA1l1- AQ9 tAAt$ "0uS0 10t*4AJ AG3PVA ~
Uskc her husband d reputation, put an end to ner
4orn LIFE, as f1eillgrath Insisted, driven to des-
petatton hY the uhialth1u!ness OF that husband
How much KinkeI owed hts reputation for ab!llsy
to her has since thai time mosL sstiEfActoty been
ptnrcn. Fseiugratha sympathy for the lsdy
caused division IN sentiment, and they hare
silcc been upon no fl1endiy terms. Mtternaus
and lew English friends iancled. few Jea,1
s,rce, tna. F1eliF1ashs political sen.tmen:s
T. ~
On foot 10 1ellere the poet 1t his old Rge. Enkel,
with IN osteutauon supposed to be nesping GOALS
OF nre, dc, TAs one Of the Eu ub1crloerA.
During the lime spent IN London, FFellIgrath
tranElatsd selections from Keats, Coer1dge, Mrs.
1Iemans, Barry Cotnuall-:u TACT, from nearly ull
OF the 1,Audard Ecgitsn p5cis-snd, he had
never done anything else, would thereby have
Nun considerable reputation As translator,
bis taste II dne, his conception and rendition ct
the original admirable lie never fails to present
you With that delicate copy which none save q
uhster Of the whole art Of translation CHI give
Iu connection With Slrrock and others,
he published. ln Issl, the Rhine Alb1m OF
art and poetry. uud almost every a1cseet!ing yesr
has seen the publication Of tOle dtnllar Tctt IN
whose compilation he has been cntcoy concerned.
II quantity were An indication Of superiority OF
9usllty, thefe could not be found poet In Amer
1ca to equal him.
Al \ representative Of an entirely different
class, socially and politically as well a. intel
Iect1ally,
ANTON ALEXANDER, CorEr yoN AuxRsrEsa,
popnlafty Known ~ !" Annstas.us Green" INERT.
something more t1sn this s1peTdcial sketch. Aus
111A has rot beea soN fruitful OF authorA Of dis
srctioc, and during the nrat to1ty years OF tht.
century, the Metternich policy stfaugled any ltb
etty ti Thought chancing to hpr,pg Up Among
the very lew who dared rAlas protestAuoo
Count Ausrsperg fakes the nrss rank- Hu nrss no
ted WORK WIS the " F7omenhoeA OF Vienna Poet
fuu Of w.t. hunoy, md ideal political coucepuons
LenAn, and Alexander, Count OF v nuremberg
were, with Aueisperg, the chief assatAnss OF tn
Ult1amonttne AID abeulusc policy OF the govern
IneIt They attacked It, not in tho psasioust
style Of the democratic ieouos1aIl Of Gorthcr,
Germany, whe endeavofrd 70 build up pafadis,
aoA future Oh the reina Of the present, but Ia
Way 10 rouse the public Eiud "a the merits OF
possible reform and gradual progress, educating
In Is onward march.
Tne descendant Of = race dsttag it, origin fYp1
the middle Of tho eleventh century, Count Aue1
epezK wAs horn in Laihach, Curinthia, In 1901 Ia
tended for mnttsrJ life by hts father, ne wa
Placed at the Royal Academy for Engineers II
Vienna Tae death Of his father IN 1878, leaytn3
him eple 6eIt Of the family estltcs Induced him u
abandon that school and prepare himself for tn
university. Here he STUDIED jurisprudence aut
philosophy and upon takaug possesHon Of his Ia
hetltspce. retired to quiet, studlo1s litersty life
Already. before the nppeatance Of Tbs Tork ab1s
ncul,oEcd. be had made h.,rbelr k1own under b.
son de j{unse OF AERktssus Green, by The ruaasn
cecp:c, " The Last knight, "a colicctcn Of ta,lst
IN IhC style Of the sosg Of tle Nloe,uag als
founded upou inctdep'a In tho llie OF Maximll!a1
Then s1peareu ''SchEti, " a volume OF tender I'm
ag1ratve o1eEtcs ard een!sl Logical poems. Ia.
prcyaIlirz to:c Of The three l.4defs CT the ccH
tdeas Vas Ee5uGcatal melancholy which IT
Leuan, with his fantastic spirit, heeane tragic
and culmnated In that unhappy anthor with thai
mcst aWfrl Of t1aged!es-utscr lois Of scasoa.
This ex1laveganee Of sentiment was neve!
Rhated by AuerspeER, although this peculiar tone
1arescep1ibsc IN mauy Of his poems but there = Il
scElslttJ about the msn anIagonlsac to tns
u,1le which rcser would down Al his biddiul.
Ioroliilcal sentiment Aucrsperels u no Democrat
in the eerse OF Herxesh- lie u Liberal ard Z
eDeh wss elected to The Parliament Of 1873. act
hecane q ncnecs from Laipaca to the Nations
Assembly. TIE September outbreak IN vlcnnl
followed ny toe execution Of Robert Blun, Ole
h.u with such u horror Of ths ltausczl party, TIM
te aterce Withdrew from po.ltcs1 career, au
for 3cara avoided any coruectlou with rolts,cl
In 1sso he pn6l.sntd "The Priest OF the Kralcu
Lerr," n poem founded upon An Old popala
legged, End In which the character aud reform
ot Joseph II. aye exhibited. Fat yeaZs prertou
be bad been apparently Idle, and bis mArriAs
with the daughter OF the UltrAnontaue Gore.un
OF st11,a had leo many to imagine him false /
1he liberal Ideas OF his youth He anaKed Wit
the wnole German 1Auon In the reaction Of a-nt
inert following the revolutionary ycars, thoug
he never nhaId doced his principles, As did raaa,
Ue collected AID tranAlated IEto modern German
~.Tne Popular Songs OF CoEtnthia-" In the A1tun
of 1889 ht accepted An appointment as oae {
the crmnIlGop 10 eoptuli upoa the nneat
1neutS oI the proSircial laws OF Codathil
md the following year became 3 member OF III
enlarged AustItau Diet. When the Austrian Co.
sIIsut1on Of 81 was promulgated, Aue1zpcrg va
elected BY the ercst proper y-no:ders OF n,s pr
Vice Is member OF tue Assembly OF the Doch
OF Cosin1h!a, Shortly after, when be declined II
ELECTION 10 the Lower nouse Ct the IEper1l Die
he WEI speonted By the Emperor ss tirolou
member OF the Upper Honte- THIS was II
proper plsoe for him; bis ta:e1t, hi1 orAtor'c
power, ard tts active, conservative Libera,,so
COON EAde him lesdsr. and 70 him ts largely dr
she for1cauon Ct u ra1ty in tho Upper Uo7,
working nsrncrioutly With tho rev caa!nc
What Apaata61us Green promised Ia bis "Prota
na4es Of Vienna Poet The gray haired po,ltls,1
Is nt lp.us 10 tecure h,a country. uoe OF his mo
auus.ng poem1 il " The Slbeloug tn D. egs Coat
humorous story Of the adventures Of the rpJ
I1l eea Of Gcrnauy dnrtnE tue lass ccntuey. Il
1a:eat work u = collection Of English popntl
.sorga entitled Echic Hood, - which be has trao
la,sd with atIcscJ sud akiil beyond compare
A. A.
Literature for the Blind,
The London 1Tmes tays: The h,,rd numser
tic United Kingdom Ahaut thirty thousand ne
Ious: AID It u eaSJ 10 pt1cetye hOE sclous!y II
c3pwih Of a1J Nte1a 1atule tor them musi hare ose
Iet4yced by the division q tua5s N1te1 cnno,c