The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-03-14
SOME NEW BOOKS.
The "Lonciy" supcrman.

~ W. - EtHluS - lb ne lonely. III
is the common fate of those who stand
on the lowest and the highest rungs
OF the ladder Of intellect to be "m'sun-
dcrstood.' The philosopher of cara
thustra" had "a most ! v5hlc pers n
atty and In his youth ~ larSn circle
Of friends says Frau FORSTER
NiETzscuE in tn second part of her
Life of Nictzs he Thc LouCiB
NictssChc tSturgis and Wllton), hut
the frieIds who idolizrd him misun-
deretood HIM and In later life he sui
fered painful, and unpleasant tr at
meat" which aggraNltvi his unhappy
"lonelinesa." The Philosophers sister
Insists that his Uncomfortable ca
pacity for sorrow" should not l." per-
m.tted tn obs urc the roaring torrent
Of happiness" h claimed for his pos
session in also Sprach." Bu, the
composers of such philosophy have
ass"redly dual personality. and how
shall we say whether the exalted o1'
or tho everyday on" is the nor IL
real nam? \ man Who is uproar-
iously happy in his life is not likely,
nor does he need, To MAKE eNplict as
striiou of his happiness. The literary
insistcnce is not persuasive.
The present volume begins in
1876. aft Niot1s.hc's visit to Bay
routh for that memorable 'Eing" fcs-
tival of which I.illi Lehman is r mi
nisccnt m her recently published
autobiography. At that time Metz
sche thought he had found In Wag-
ner that wonderful. secret vc.lcd
ideal that had lowered b fore him
from early youth. but that was the
Wagner 90 Tribschcn. not Wagner
the warrior. Vt Elyr.uth he was
Seized with disgust and ran away
from. :, al His criticism II e..
Ring waS based partially on ethical
and aesthetic considerations as well as
upon musical grounds, but his slSt =
believes his notes On Carmen"
proving him "a musical critic " rare
disccrnmont" reveal him more cor
rcCtly than the oXaggcrittG praise OF
his friend CASTS music. But Ms
Wagn rian ccnsure wls put in terms
far from technical. He had expected
Bayreutn to he "a universal bath for
souls; one dip had been enough for
him.
lie fled To Italy with Dr. Paul Rec.
a kindred spirit whom he strangely
o~vervalurd. The eye strain was bad
After seeing the BAY Of Naples he
wrote: 81 have not strength enough
for :he north. have in
tcllcct en- .uah for The south" Hear
Ing that Wagner was at sorrento. ne
ran the risk &c unpleasant discussion
OF his running away from tn" fcsti-
val ana visited Richard But the clm-
nnspr ul= lYtttssIfnta3 with tho hanNaN
inancla, deficit. rumored at $50.ooO. Of
the summers musical f.as, and "mu-
tual' friends s~ideirlckel the topic:
Fraulein Won Meyscnhus was the chief
engineer. Wag ,cr could not sane
Rec; Nietzsche thought his judgment
In the indiN.du1l cas- warped 10y Ids
untI-semitic prejudice. bit later had
cause 70 recall rcGretfully Wagner's
prediction that Rec would make
trouble Cor him. II was in 1883 chat
the I;6e-Fraulciu Lou Sa.ome Frau
Andreas) mlNup came Ia an II with
out the duel tat Fritz had suS-
rested: II should very much like to
give yod a lesson IN practical morality
with the help Of a few bullets"
The little colony in the Villa Rubi-
mace that winter in the late '70s was
busy, reading all the way from Thu
cydldes to No,tairc. Didcrot and
Miche,et. Frauloiu Won Meysenbug
was writing her n mini:ccnce. Of an
Old Woman; Rec was IT work on hi,
"Origin OF Moral Emotions Young
Albertus Brrnner. student. travelling
for his health. wrote short s%torl-~. and
N.etzschc Vas do!ng Human. Al Too
Human" and ac.!Ig visions IF the
modern monastery. the colony Of IDEAS.
the free NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. domestic
affairs were to Ice managed 10y his
faithful sister. The doctors were
treating him FOR nerves. indigestion
and everything hut the eye strain. He
said: II | were blind | should he
healthy
In Switzerland the next year. medi-
tating. writing and longing "to be u
teacher oncc mole" Dnc evening he
i~mprovised on the PIANO, believing
himself alone. Bur the Emperor Of
Brazil heard tn music and Is said 10
have been deeply moved by il. While
living in the Ccllcrs,rassc. Basic. he
had a tiff with his friend the i'rciherr
q Gersdorff. when, after six years,
they were r~ccoucilei Gcr~lorif had
lpSt lbUCl WIN my hrbtltf : DnlIO-
sophical development and could not
follow ii step ny step Why DID h.
Bother? II does not ., that way.
Years afterward, looking back.
"Fritz's' people used 80 think
this sid cstrareoment Gin which
Nietzschc had strained TO tho
limit friendships PRIVILEGE oj inlet
Ing faithful Wounds marked tho bo-
ginning ut 'thlt isolation which. iik.
q dark shadow Wa destined to spread
further and further over his life"
Human All Too Human" WAS pa,
out in 1873. \ictZsrhc wanted it to
be anonymous and had even written
o mythical account of the author.
"Hcrr Bernhard Cron,' "a German
from the RUSSIAN Baltie provinces"
lie wanted it to he Il test book, to try
the honest, unbiased opinion of his
friends and the world. How would
Wagner take it, was tile great ques-
ton. To him the true authorship
vas To he revealed, and a rather
pathetic letter was written, to be sont
To THE Master But the Publisher
did not want I" g!v" NJ my brothers
name, and, as it seems, was not sorry
at the prospect Of a l.ttlo scandal
and Nictzschc finally adopted the view
that Whoever allows himself to speak
in public Is obliged also TO contradict
himself i'm puhlic as soon rs he changes