, 1881-01-02

Observation-Disclosures snAuoW Is eAst otlorE " Ac
bc1t OF his mind and tho tendency Of hts literary
ventures Perhaps you arc right" be wrote,
81 and am but d DON QutTote, aud reading of MI
kinds Of marvellous books has turned my brniu'
as was the case with the Cnballeyo dc 10 Mnncha.
Jean Jacques Rousseau was my Anadis OF Ganl,
Mtrabeau was my Roland or Agramant. :. :;
He tDon QuirNe) wanted to bring the feudal
would destroy whatcver is loft Of. It: and
SO we act with different aims Ny colleague
m'stook wiudmiils for giants: while T.. !
wlndmiils. lie mistook leather wine-skins
fur mighty magictans: while I In our mighty
mngicinns sec nothing but leather vine skins.
drivers for cavaliers, stal-yc,lders for court n"
dies: while tako Our castles for humpkin- hos,
telrics, our cavaliers for donkey drivers, ana
our court Indies for stable wenches: l
wis then Of the opinion that. pon Quixousm
consisted In the fact that the noble kni&ht want
ed to bring bnck into life pust which had long
came i1sto pninful friction with the present
AIMS: hare since understood that 1t Is lust as
1hankless folly to UNDERTAKE. to bring the future
for suoh campMig ga against the .pnndcrous in
fertsts of the present only a lean jade to ride
upon, very rusty harness. ana very @ 1IM4.e Ha..
csu,1e yein,-pitter and keen. He had wild, weird
1ancics, and contured up as strange uncnnny
visions as Poe. "When Twas boy, he wrote In
Aftcrlifc ~ thought Of nothing else but OF mag
tcai aud wondrous tules; and every pretty woman
who wore an ostrich-fcathcr took for Queen
OF the Elves; and, if tho trnin of her dress was
wet tpuk her fur Il Wnter-w1tch.
Grimm drew most of the material Tor hls
life Of Goethe from the latter's :" Dichtung
und Wnnrhcit." and s;tigand has drawn much ct
:.IelscS;dcr.' IL This was not M aurobiographica
work bur contained some admirNbie sketches OF
his car!y tfo. Of big thoughts purposes. and ~
Stigan,l calls them. To disress for monleut; it
VIC accept ncine's own testimony. he undoubt-
etly left behind him several volumes Of Mem
and an ineiiscs So also to the oplnion-whteh u not
equally well proyen-thAt these Memoirs y
were sold by Gustav Heine, the poet,s brother.
TO the Austrian Government wh,ch res has
and and KEY. The Princess della Rocca
has recently published il volume in Italian Gu
tited Of The fSsa5o 1e 9d %
beloved sister CHARLOTTE Helnc, Ebo marfaeu
Moritz Embden. In this work the " Princtpessa !"
aiirms that no such "Neuu!rs" now exist or
any such works are published they arc spurious
and probably forged. Now, what is Hetnes own
testimony on this subject? It seems clear tnat ~
him ut the time he was IN tre4ty for the publica-
tlon of d complete edition OF bis works. In !s50 Ivy
he had completed four volumes Alrendy IN 1857
be wrote 10 Campo. his Hamburg publisher:
:. Day aud night atn at work with my great
book, the romanee Of my life, and now feel for
the first time the whole worth Ct that which :, l
1s't ne4s tStns Il e. xshtcb s the public shall haye
from me- Later he wrote to the
Kahei: Yet l have few letters which she
wrote to me about Saint Simonianism- =,
am Intending to make use ct them Tor my auto
Campo that he had completed his work 50 far in
four volumes, and appears well. satisfied with
the,n, for be adds: !" Even II die to-day I
biographical history or memoirs which will rep
resent my thought and striving. and which, on
account OF their historic matter. or their true
exposition Of the most mysterious of transitive
periods, will 60 down to pesterity." And small
part OF these volumes forms tho SECOND book If
his unfortunate work on the "sour- r-visaged re-
publican" RErn.s And, again. he said to Meiss-
her one day, pointing to q chest OF drawers op-
posit bis couch: "Look you! there are my mem-
osrs; therein have been collecting for many
pae ns Sees on Of pno a1 o Hill box md
trembie- In this box is shut up one OF my best,
nut by no means the last, OF my triumphs-
Nor ls II difficult to believe that GnstaE heine
since he did not shrink from assisting the dying
Max to get rid Of Heinrich s letters:
70 return for moment me ttt 70 sne m hs
youthful studies he says: ''As for Latin, you
have 40 idea how complicated It is. Tho Romans
would certainly never have had sufficient spare
had first to learn Latin. These fortunate pco-
pie must have known in their cradles what
nouns formed their nccusattve5 n a,' L how
ever. had to learn them by heart In the sweat OF
nv brow u Greek will not speak at
ali; / should ve1 myself too much. The monks
in the Middle Ages werp not 50 Tar WRONG When zen
Devil. With the Hebrew 1t was better.
Yet did not get On SO far In Hebrew as my
watcn. which II some time or other must nase
had intimate rcIa dons with pnWnhrqEers, Tor It
acquired Jewish habtts~to wit: 1t had way of
refusing to 60 on Sundays. understood
The German tnngue better: aud I'd, that hat IS tf no
who had written book on "Tne
Everlasting Peace" and IN whose class my
always did the most flghting-
1t was not my fault il leArntso little geography
that later very often lost my way in the world:
For the French had at thnt period dtslocatcd ~
1re,t'sr and coun5E!es every day g9t It f1esn
history. s.. Some Of the pictures remained
fixed ia my memory; and it happened subse-
quently very often that good many people ap-
also in mythology got on well. I had such a
liking for the posse OF gods and goddesses who
governed the world so merrilv .ptthotn care or
And 50 the poet rattled on in hIs mer-
At Is Heine IL described as "a lively and
To9uish boy Of extraordinary promise of CT
darling OF fairies and water-witches+ the com
rade Of Don Quixote, with bis heart tull OF sun
shsue and uightingales. He had Just enough
a wild, unextluguishabie desire for IN intellect
ual life'' When sent to Hamburg he satiricaIIy
says Of the ladies OF that Eoodly town: Cupid,
VINO o4teu iA3s LIS suu.Posl ~ Aose"aAAo"s ~
ass !ss Ha%sar* zaSSs s5ss ~ not IN Il sss hsast
until he was ~, misunderstood,
by the rich uncle IN whose
banking house he had been placed" While hero
be fell in love with his cousin>-the lady who In
different masks appears So often in his poems
Heinc's nicce. the Prineipessn. in her rOlune
already referred to, denies TINT her uncle WAS
desperately ena1nored Of Amalie Heine. Stig-
aud, however, suites that episode in this prosaic
ntfair, and then set her fancy Oh somebody else,
who Tilted her, after which she married the first
person who presented himself, and who was i
person OF good estate"
This Is an ancient story
such as is ever new
10 whOnIsUcycr It happens,
Ills heart Is broken In TWO.
At tho university Of Bonn he entered the
Faculty of Jurisprudence and came under the
personal influence OF Schlegel. He was,'' wrote
Heine. ~ with tho exception Of NAPOLEON. the
arst great man whom had ret seen, and |
under this intiuence. he wrote part of
his >'Junge LcIden," and part or the
tragedy OF >*Aln,anzor." Into ths latter he
threw all his entire self with his paradoxes, his
sisdon4 his love, his hate, his crazlness. Soon
after he went to Berlin aad became imbrued
with the Hegcl!an philosophy IT was young
and proud, and 1t ltattered my pride to learn
from Hcgel that the blessed God was not, as my
grandmother told me, living IN Heaven but that
myself, on earth, was The blessed God" One
tratt OF bis character not especially TO his credit
vas made manifest here ac engaged In duel
The rule was that siashes only were permitted,
and that q thrust defeated the Giver. To insure
lt1rersafy's sword. His luuge Leiden,'' - Al
Ralclifr," and Lyrical lntermez-
f.l.