The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-21

patty, new YORK.
Reviewers in many publications are Ia
nenting the fact that Carl Schurz's death
prevented him from completing his inter-
ssting memoirs. The two volumes recently
issued are taken for granted as represent
ing the entire work. They bring bis life
HoWn to the second year Of the Civil War
While no specific statemen. is made rela-
tive thereto. one would naturally be led by
The Appearance and makeup of the volumes
before us, TO the conclusion that there Will
aot be one or more additional ones pub>
ished at some future date.
l. was generally understood when the
work was sold to Mcllure's that it was
complete In the magazine, chapters have
already been published bringing the narra-
tive down two years beyond the period in
Guided In the printed volumes. IL is alsc
advertised that during the present year
other chapters, dealing with incidents Sub
se1uent to the close of the war, will he
published in the magazine. THESE facts
lead us to hope that other reviewers are
mistaken, and that sometime in the fut1r5
The public will be given the benefit of tho
complete autobiography of this INTEREST," lg
public man.
The two volumes just from the press
represent that period in Carl Schurz's life
that is now fixed history. He was maker
of history while still a minor, and from
youth till his retirement in a well rounded
old age he was frequently identified with
events that approached international mag
nitude. Born of good middle class Ger
man stock, barely risen above the peasant
class, Schurz's early years were unevent-
full. However, in his minute narration of
his childhood one gains an excellent view
of the life lived by the body of the people
from whom he sprang during the second
quarter of the nineteenth century. In his
beyhood he was surrounded by men who
haddought 10 the Napoleonic wars, from
which Germany had just recovered. His
father, first a school teacher and later a
tradesman, but wlthal II student, had seen
the great captain.
The author of this work first saw the
light in a castle near the Rhine, a short
walking distance from the historic city Of
Cologne. He takes pains to note that
this was not due to aristocratic lineage,
hut to the fact of his parents temporary
residence with his grandfather, 1.-THE
Burghafien.' 1t is necessary to pass light
ly over the pictures of his boyhood, the
customs that impressed themselves on his
memory, his early reading and his rapture
over his first glimpse into English litera-
ture through the medium of Robinson
Crusoe;'' his studies ut the gymnasium
of Cologne, and his entrance into the uni
Versity which he had to leave at the age
of II to aid in the support of his family.
Fortunate circumstances placed the
young man in the University of Bonn, and
that marks the real beginning of his ro-
mantle career. While studying to become
a professor of history. with an eye on
literature, the revolution of 1s4S came. In
no part of Germany did it cause a greater
stir than in the university of which Schurz
was a student. He soon became a leader,
first as editor and later as commander Of
armed evolutionary forces. With his pro-
fessor, Gottfried Kinkel, he was soon
looked upon as a foremost spirit in the
movement that was harshly DESTROYED by
the existing authority but which resulted
in adding TO America its early strong Ger
~fr9hrrraptSre, has been told often;
afidN Of how he returned and rescued his
friend Kinkel from Spandau prison, a feat
that reads more like knight-errantry OF OLD
than of comparative modern occurrence.
Schurz and kinkel fled from the land Of
their fathers. a trip to England being
filled with adventure. The former drifted
to Paris, where for some time he earned a
livelihood as a correspondent. He was
finally forced to seek refuge in England
again, and it was there that he deter
mined to seek a haven in America. He
married in 1862. just before sailing, being
20 years old.
He wrote out the stroy of his courtship
and marriage, but modestly retained 1t for
the sole perusal of relatives.
While in London, Schurz was intimately
associated with several other European
pevolutionists, who have gone down in his
tory with permanent places. Not the least
among these were Mazzini and Louis Kos
suth. The former he declares to nave pos
sessed a personality of rare attraction"
OF the latter he was not so well impressed.
The three greatest onversationalist he
ever met, he says were Mazzini, Oliver
Wendell Holmes and Bismarck. q
Interspersed in the first volume are sew
eral essay-like sketches that show the
trend of the young reformers youthful
mind. though penned in late years. The
account of the first time he Witnessed the
acting of Rachel, and his delineation of
her magical power, will become a classic
of simple, impressive description. He
saw her first in a Racine tragedy in Berlin.
''Tha melodious voice" he remarks, land
the effect it created on the listener can
hardly be described without a seemingly
o-xtravagant resort to metaphor He saw
the famous actress many times again, in
Europe and America, and his opinion never
changed. He evidently thought her the
&ItdleSt OF all nlSIIlOnlc dfllSls. fLdcuel
was to me a demon, he goes on, "a super
natural entity, a mysterious force Of ma
ture. anything rather than a woman with
whom one would like to dine or speak
about the every day affairs Of life, or take
q ride in the park"
Equally vivid are his accounts Of his first
night with Jenny Lind, and of Wagner
and his music. He met, saw and heard
both in London in company with Madame
Kinkel. herself a musician of great talent.
Space will not permit giving mis- impress
sicns in detail. but they will be found ex-
pressed in what is among the best speci-
mems of forceful Frglish.
Schurz confesses that his sojourn in
America was not at first intended to be
permanent. Like others who had found
their native country ~inhospitable after the
unsuccessful efforts In the interest of unity
and popular rights he hoped to come here,
await a more favorable day and return to
carry out his old hopes of reform. How
ever. he soon became euwrapped in Amer
lean life. and found the prospect OF sue
cessful revolution in the Fatherland be-
coming more and more obscure. After
brief %sofourns in New York and Phila-
delpbia. he went to Wisconsin, arriving
there at the beginning of the crucial politi-
cal lays preceding the Civil War.
It was natural that a popular hero, with
his natural adaptability, should soon be-
come Identified with politics. He was