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352 NOTICES OF BOOKS.
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German Litjehatuhe.
touching There In conclusion are upon few the , literary we domestic wish processes to and draw literary more attention his interesting tory to of some the and poet recent in instructive le Schiller tters works in .
than statesmanshi that of selecting or in war some and celebrated makinthat name name in art a central , figure , around which p , may cluster , all the persons g and events of a contem intel
lec porar tual y disci age . line An for investi it teache gation s us of skill this and sort readiness is an excellent in determining - a man ' s essen p tial , greatness from the fictitious greatness caused by skilfull
the no accom ticed accidents p ) lished in his of b modest y time M . Julian little and p volum Schmidt lace . e , Such en ( _wjiose titled a , task name " Schiller has we been have and his alread Con y y -
re temporaries ferring not . " onl * The to Schiller book abounds himself with but to anecdote Goethe and Tieck genial Klops goss tock ip , ,
y , , , does Heine the , Uhland author , K fail orner to , brin Huber in , H accoun erder , ts Sch of legel Jean , and Paul Wieland Humboldt ; nor ,
Fichteand Kant . The circumstances g attending Schiller , ' s first introwork duction his , to various Caroline friendshi and Lotte , w and ith anecdotes reliion of and his fireside deathas , his describ literar e y d g
in M , . Schmidt ' s little history ps , , afford an easy introduction , to the teach o b bj iograp ect the of hy this of " meinoir le Charlotte of Germany , as von the anonymous to Schiller estimate and au the her thor noble Friends inform and . s " * us devoted , is The to
character of peop the poet ' s wife . There are two ways in which biography is commonly written at present . Some weave the story of a life out
related of fragments by his which friends are ; other left " s by leave the deceased the letters , or and tradi encomium rem tions ains wh to speak dis are
for themselvesandwithout a remark either of , or - reader paragemen to t t , allow , judgment , the - dead seat . to Such address a metho the d living has been , and resorted exalt th to
impartial in the presen autobiograp t case , reducin hy than g a the history memoir which before has been rath written er to a to n in the
attract the sympathy of the reader . Lotte was apparently habit of keeping a diary , in which she noted down her every- ari day
thoughts but and are simp leasantl le reflections free from —her self- letters consciousness are somewhat . De Quincey
wepossibl some of st , le y mi which ght p have are to classed y be found them amongst amongst the the letters pleasant of specimens educated
women y but occasionally they are rather lengthy , and abound with that fulsome , sentiment which , by a natural reaction , brings us back
to it di the " Throug s sternest h the and side dusk is of hidden y truth clouds . b a We g the limmer give a of few neutral sunli specimens ght tint breaks of : a — dim out ; mist now
which appears veils the , distance from y my eyes gray as effectually as the black , - ness of night . So is the future hidden from me . la vain I ask ,
f " " Schiller Charlotte und von seine Schiller Zeitgenossen und Hire _" Freunde Julian Schmidt . " Erster . Band .
352 Notices Of Books.
352 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1862, page 352, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011862/page/64/
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