, 1873-04-06
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Eubule-Eyans does not agree with deld, an
authority Of no mean rank, IN the picture ne
draws Of
57opre,z ARTISTIC AND NrELLEcTUA1 GERMANY,
In these words 'sThe press and rostrum in Ger
many are alike degruded; the stage kept alive
by scraps from foreign sources poetry and art
utterly destitute Of vigor; music grown degen-
erate; literature sick1y romanticism devoid OF
any originality the national language culpably
neglected, disfgured by the introduc-
ton OF foreign words, and in it's
turn disdguring German modes OF thought
and the German nature" Modern
German literature he thinks to be the finest IN
the world 1t has liberty. Of thought and FRESH
@1
9 stranger. The German does not, Like the
Frenchman, set his invention on tho rack to
originate some fresh phase Of quintessentlali
vicc. He does not, like the ever-praehcn Eng
UsLman, construct q novel rs Chinaman fabri-
Gates puzzle and sacrifice all else to the Tean-
some ingenuity Of perfect plot. Above al, he
does not nutilato eternal emotions On the PTo-
crustean couch OF modern conventionality. He
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elip before his eyes. He has no dread Of Mrs.
Grundy. He da1es. without malice on the one
hand or e1tcnnation on the other, to reflect Ma
ture as manifested either in virtue Or in
vice. Parentheticzlly, the writer gives his def
niton Of Art,-a phase OF human activity which
Tsino and Raskin are trying very hard to define.
"For wi,at is Art2 1s it not the simple. loyal,
loving reproduction OF Nature? Not necessarily
the reproduction OF every petty detail, but OF
tic broad, general features: And, if this be so,
the first aim OF the artist, whether with pencil
or with pen; -ust DO to be natural" There is
no art in England, vhera everything ia conven-
tional. Z The artistic novel attains lts highest
form in German belletristic literature.
After these lofty introductory remarks, Eubule-
Evens analyses the literary character of Spiel
hagen, :Auerbach, Hacklander, Gutzkow, Auhl-
bach, .HeyBe, and jean Paul. He says: -.
/ know no modern author who has laid
human nature 80 universally under contt1outlon
md with such uniform Euccess as Sp1clhagen.
H;s canvas is crowded with figures all true to
nature. hut ali mora or less typical. The in
heritor of ancestral imbecitE, whose talk 1s of
dogs and horses, and whose virtue consists IN
conEtpnt~~ readiness to stake his own
ralneiezs, against some 1ellow-cfeaturasa s
ing braiu boils over at last in madness
replete with strange and. startling wisdom=the
young girl who, possessed OF physical desire,
tampts to loy5 whose fruit is bitterness OF 6or--
row-the beauteous mstron who, also loving,
sheds the calm OF holy selfdenial over an inter-
course that elEa had passed the bounde Of friend
ship-aboro all, tho poor, perple1ed nature
which, full OF noble impulses and lofty asplra-
1ations, is yet the tIlral Of self and indecision-
these are but few OF the characters which, drawn:
with realistic hand, yet reveal to us an 1dealist
vino aims at something higher than the repro
ductiou Of mere externalism, WHO. 1s' ever con
ec;oas Of the mystery of life and the Burpass1ng
iriercst ofpaychological Development,
But even German Artist it seems, can de-
scsnd from his impartial heights to level his pen
against abaEes. For Spielhagen has so far
forgotten himself as to be bitter against one
class aIone-thc wretcled JunEers, who, in vir-
Niue Of q stall-fed courage, laye arrogated' to
;:mscIyes from time. i1nmemorial position
Tty:.clt would be luiierous if it we're not 80 par
ri;ious to tho best, interests of Germany. Spiel
hagen describes all other classes with grand
snd NATURAL impattallty.
As xa coniinue, We ara panied to find that
another German Artist has fallen into tho sin Of
r:1tiny witt, purposes: : '.>-
H.:a!a2nder, has been called, not without
ressor the Dickens Of Germany. He has the
5ano love for the less known places Of human
life the Same power ct microscopic description,
Enu Same warm philanthropic heart but; Like
Dickens. he is essentially one-Eided~ And--as
il often the case with Dickens-he writes With u,
purroae. and falls short. therefore, Of the \;
most po;;ular ,omance, "Das Europaische
sclsrcnleben," the moral drift Of which il
cb1ious from its very title, and in which, true
ezsggerates, and actually weakens cause in
i,aaI noble and deserving, by committing him.
fc:f from the outset to its too partial advocacy
IAN: iha iE''ge be desenerates into tho specla!
}:..iacr; tloln the artist into the ono-1dea-ed
r41>ta.ttlscr;ss.
rrcy;:g is given only 8 subordinate position.
lie .'',as perception, but no instinct. He paints
naryeIousIy we'll what he sees, but he has no
powcr to feel toward tho invisible"
Heyse ia one of Eubule-Eyans' favoTites.
Heys., ia the writer who was the subject OF q
u.:>-. 1aerciicss SARCASM ut tie hands Of |: ce1e-
L7atcl German critic, who compared him with
S:'.-lEageD, thus
sn;s.Aasen is like grand antique statue,
L,elans, perhaps, this OF that inferior member,
but no;er without that which gives expression
sad ma;esty 70 tho wlole-the head. Heyse, On
flushed in other respects, but unfortunately
without the head
Els own Judgment of HeJRe il more roseate :
Not only has Eoyse's style peculiar and deli
cate AROMA which absolutely dedes translation,
bat, ii tho w:lolo range Of English literature,
there is no anthor with whom he could be COM
pared in such 6 manner Us to enable the English
icader to form an Intelligent estimate OF his
ee:sirs- He does not exclude himself from his !
writings ycu see hin over standing in tho
midst Of his creations. with the eamo
peusiTo b'o1 and calm deep-watching
ewes, and, for the most part flor he il
BY nature hopeful and joyous} the sans placid
Esnile npoa the n Fps: 50 be ..s stands, the very
to the angels or sinking to tha devils, but az
ways on the just level Of average humanity;
p:c;;arcd to see and welcome oil thst there is
s...c,:>,ys " i. may sound, even sometimes to
rar .:o,,, much of error and Of ain.