The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-03-17
REcoL1EcrIoNs OF HEINZ.

Headed by Dr. Max NOrdau, who made the chief speech last Sunday over the grave of Heine in the Montmarte cemetery at Paris, unnumbered ad- mirers of the poet have been cele- brating the f1ftieth anniversary of his death,
 Heines memory is kept green, if one may judge by the innumerable articles published in the French and German Press in commemoration of the winter day in 1856 when Heine died.
 A contribution to these articles which is of special interest appeared in the German Pariser Zeitung, published in Paris, In it French veteran of ninety still watching events with keen eyes and intellect from his quiet home in the Montmartre quarter, gives his re- collections as followws
 In 1840, at the age of twenty-five, came lao Paris as a budding journalist on the staff of the Mousquetaire, edited by A. Dumas pore. One day, walking along the Seine, met an acquaintance, Dr. Eller With him was a gentleman of about forty with strange, dreamy eyes, who was introduced as Dr. Heine. I was quite familiar with his name, for even then he played an important and unique part in the best French artistic and literary circles, and was looked upon in Paris as the representa- tive of German literature. I was therefore proud to make his aequaint- ance, and my relations with him con | tinued to his death.
 Not many persons could boast of this for, like all eminent men, he was of a temperament which could not | easily accommodate itself to the views of others Thus although our inter- , course lasted for many years, l could not say that we were friends, and, in deed, he had very few friends At the l same time he was mosIt pleasant and amiable in personal intercourse. In his heart of hearts ne was an incurable skeptic, who drew close to few people, l but WGpose mordant wit, sharp and reckless sarcasm, gave much offence, even to those not over-sensitive. In | doing nhis he did not mean to hurt 1n- l dividuals but merely gave vent to an l innate love of satire which spared not ] even himself He liked to represent himself as Ia liberated Prussian,' but l this did not exclude an occasional al | fusion to Germany which showed his | longing for f1is native country But he was very fond of Paris life, and it was l astonishing how completely he had
 
 At first we put this down to the | fact that his native plate had been temporarily French, but those who | came to know him better saw that after i all he had remained German He was prodigal and easy-going as a French man, good natured and geeerous to bo his friends, for whom he paid as many drinks and dinners as they liked. l But he could not bear to be asked for the loan of money He knew full well the value of money, and since he was pretty sure never to get the money back. and to make enemies into the bargain, he preferred not to lend to | anyone.
 Qualities such as these, but above all his ouerlousness, caused the circle of acduaintance to shrink and more. myself often went to see him during the last years of his life in the Rue des Martyrs, and I have 9 vivid recollection of visit I paid him shortly before his death. The bright, eager face was so thin as to be scarcely recognizable, and he held out to me, with an unspeak- ably sad smile, bony hand the iciness of which made me shudder Shortly after we carried him to his grave and I was one of those who said their fare well to the great poet at his open grave. Westminster Gazette. ~