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202 GERMAN IilTEBATTJUE.
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*. "We Cannot Commence Our Usual Notice ...
Grundling , * and a collection of tales by Fanny Lewald . f " Anton
in America " is a story , suited for the young * , and intended to give true pictures of German life in America . It was suggested ,
as the author tells us , by Herr ! Freytag *' s " Soil und Haben . " The present work proposes to follow the fortunes of Kaufmann Anton
Wohlfahrt through various vicissitudes . The hero , who is the son of a subaltern officer , commences life with scarcely a farthing in his
possession and is taken into employment by Herr Traugott Sehroter , an important merchant of Breslau , out of charity . The youth , thus
thrown upon his own resources ,: takes for his motto that the " straight road " { grade weg _) is the best for him to adopt . He
• endeavours to keep out of the petty deceits of trade ; he is deaf to the voice of the charmer , and will have nothing to do with
dissipated nobles , or extortionate Jews . Through this course of conduct , and in consequence of steady perseverance , he becomes in
time a rich and prosperous man , and after resisting the temptation of marrying for money and worldly position , is able to support' a wife
"whose tastes and feelings are suited to his own . Herr Solger proposes to follow the fortunes of this matter-of-fact and sensible
liero , illustrating his story with pictures of American life . Young * people who are learning German may be pleased with this tale .
" Henriette Sontag " is a history of the fortunes of two young artists who are struggling with the difficulties of life , being * urged
on through all their troubles by enthusiastic ambition , and being endowed with indomitable perseverance . The author is an
enthusiast on the subject of art , and follows the track of Madame Dudevant in depicting the romantic ideal of artist life . Headers
of foreign stories are sufficiently familiar with this sentimental type of the starving painter or poet , eccentric iii his habits , and clothed
in rags , with a singular power of living without sufficient nourishment ,, and a habit of discoursing in irregular blank verse .
Another favourite _character is the girlish debutante , who , inspired by the feeling of her own geniusturns a deaf ear to the cold
, remarks of calculating critics , and suddenly one day pours forth an impassioned burst of songthough her voice may be perfectly
, untrained . Such imaginary creatures are very different to the practical and hardworking musicians of every-day life ; but to
those who care to read about them and do not mind a little extravagance and a good deal of eloquence about the " infinite
delight " . of art ,, this _boolc may prove as satisfactory as others of the same class .
In two little volumes entitled " Various Pictures , " Madame _Panny Lewald has collected some of her earlier tales and
imagin-Von * " _^ J Henriette ulius Gundling Sontag . 2 " Bde Kiinstlerlebens . Leipzi 18 Anf 62 ange in Federzeichnungen .
f " Bunte _Bildei _* , Gesam . nielte Erzahlungen g , . und Phantasiestiicke . _" Von Lewald 2 Bde
Fanny . .
202 German Iiltebattjue.
202 GERMAN IilTEBATTJUE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), May 1, 1863, page 202, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01051863/page/58/
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