The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-12-29
THE "REMINISCENCES or CARL.
SCHuRH. Illustrated with por-
traits and original drawings. The

f.l SCHuRH. illustrated with por-
traits and original drawings. The
Mcclure Company. Of New York,
publishers. Two volumes, SO.
The first volume OF what is GER
talnly one of the most Important pub
llchtions OF the year 1907, both in re-
spect to authorship and matter con-
tnned, covers the period between the
years 1929 and 1852.
1t begins by telling how Carl Schurz.
the son of the sc1loolmaster of Liblar,
q village not far from Cologne, on the
hanks or the Rhine, in Germany. md
OF his wife, Marianne Jussen was born
on March End, 1929. In castle, the
ancestral seat of Count Wolf Meter
nich. This happened. because Carl
Schnrz's father and mother lived for
several years after their marriage with
his grandparents, Herbert Jussen and
Frau Jussen, who as farmer-tenants.
occupied part Of the seignorial castle.
The description given by the author
of THE "reminiscences OF his grand
parents and parents at once attest his
remarkable power of bringing before
the readers oye the personality he has
in mind and of investing it with the
attributes that lend II distinctiveness
and mower.
The story of life in the seignoria1
castle is fun of charm and full as we'll
OF information inparting the clcarest
idea of the management OF outdoor and
domestic affairs. among the higher
class OF the German tenant-farmcr
{ people in the early nineteenth century.
Mr.. Schurz records the fact that at
nine years OF age he was considered by
his father to have outgrown the school
ut Liblar. and was therefore sent to
one at Bruhl. During his lonely walks
to and from this school he. by his faith
(Yf n.
stocks Messiah now considered TO
be an almost impossible feat. The
first play ] ever saw" says he. was
Tie schone Genovefa.' 1t was a SPLEEN
did piece
At the age Of ten Mr. schurz was sentt
to school at Cologne. What he relates
of his school career in the Cologne
Gymnasium is as interesting as the
narrative OF his childhood in Liblar.
and is told with the same clear direct
'ress and simplicity that are among HIS
especial characteristics in authorship.
The financial rererses of his father.
uccessitating his withdrawal from the
Cologne school, and his entrance as an
irregular university student at Bonn,
bring him another stage further in his
"Reminiscences
Here at Bonn. during the winter OF
1SiT-1S4S. he mentions the fact of his
making the acquaintance of professor
Gottfrled Kinkel and Mrs. Kinkcl. and
speaks Of 1t as IAN acquaintance which
for my later years, .heEame one OF Iate-
fui consequences Sssst2s
He describes very WILDLY the excite
mcnt produced AMONG the Bonn univer-
sity students s~tEEnroclatmfng OF the
French Republic and the abdication OIL
King Louis PlitI.ppG.ssThe revolution
which followed in Berlin, and its emo
ing in a victory for the people and the
withdrawal of the troops. is pictured at
length, and serves as a prelude TO the
Introduction of the author from student
into public lifeI go
In the formation at Bonn of party
groups after the Berlin revolution in
the winter of 1888. Mr. Schurz allied
himself TO the Democrats, as opposed
to the Conatitutionalists, and became
an assistant to Professor Ikinkel In
The editorship of the Bonner Zeltung.
local organ for the Democrats. H!s
account of his attendance on the stu
dent congress which convened in Essen
ech during September OF 1913 Is ex-
ceedingly Interesting.
q Afterwards events crowd thickly in
Mr.. Schurz's life. He ~ swept by his
sympathies into the ranks OF the revolu-s
.tionists of Baden and of the Palati-#
nate. and after their final defeat be-
comes a fugtttve and escapes by way
of Strasburg to Switzerland. At zurich
he forms the acquaintance of Richard
Wagner. notable incident OF his win
ter residence there. From Zurich he
travels to Berlin in the furtherance OF
his attempt to aid in the escape of
Kinkel, who has been sentenced to life
Imprisonment at the Vanguard peniten-
tlary in Pomerania. The place of
kinkel's Imprisonment is later changed
from Nangard to Spandan.
In Berlin Mr.. Schurz first sees the
actress Rachel in Racine's "Phedre,
and records the impression she makes
on him as "one of the most overpow-
erlng of his life The succeeding
pages of his "Reminiscences" which
tell how the efforts made by Mr..
Schurz in behalf of tinkel We're ended
successfully by the latter's escape
from prison, read like a romance. Mr.