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I GEBMAltf ZITEKATURE. 129
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Historical novel of three volumes , called _" Furor , " which was intended to furnish a icture of the period of the Thirty Years' War . *
Some of the most beautiful p of the of Heinrich Heineand those most suitable for general reading poems have already been translated ,
into English or French . He himself , was perfectly familiar with the French tongue , and translated his own " Reisebilder " into that
language . He lived in France for twenty-five years—Germany being in fact too hot to hold him after the uncontrolled sallies
of his wit—and received a pension from Louis Philippe . Here he marriedand here he died in 1856 having lingered long in a state
of paral , ysis , > and having endured , great suffering . The fame of Heine burg in was 1827 established * This contained hy his cc Book , amongst of Songs other , " published celebrated at p Ham ieces > ;
7 In Ci King 1833 Olaf he , " published the " Drummer " Essays -Major on , ' the and Modern the " Two Literature Grenadiers of . "
Germany , " and these were followed by criticisms on the " "Women of We Shakesp now ere . "f on to the writings of Madame Mundt , better
prepared for pass criticising them fairly after this brief account of the Influence exercised by her contemporaries . . Shortly after her
marriage _" Woman _^ 's Louise Lifeas Daug Miihlbach hterWife _piiblished Artist a and . learned Princess treatise . " J ~ This on
, , , , book obtained a ready sale , and was speedily followed by novels ' , such as _" First and Last Love" the " Child of Nature , " " Eva , _"
, _" After the - Marriage , " the " Child of Society , " & c ., § showing a lively : imagination and occasional traces of more serious feeling .
The influence of the romanticism of modern Germany , and a love of p however assionate clearl sentiment traceable , probabl in all y derived these romances from French and are sources likel , y are to
y , render them distasteful to the majority of English readers . As a fair le of the stle of these novelswe may mention one
exampy , published during the present year , entitled " The World and Nature || . " This book naay be recommended to the lovers of the
_spasmodic school . It abounds with striking scenes and startling appailing episodes , _, mon . with sters . human , speaking beings a langu who age are not ]? suited erfect to to angels ordin blank ary or
mortalsbut which seems to be an approach German verse— , the reader being haunted throughout with a fear that the heroines , will vanish in blue smoke , or the heroes be annihilated
' * " Die _Gesange der Yolker . " Leipzig , 1851 . " Furore . " Leipzig , 1851 ; 3 vols
neu * f ern " Buch . Liter der atur Lieder in Deutschland . _" Hamburg " 1833 , 182 : 2 7 . vols " . Beitrage " Shakespere zur ' s Geschichte Madchen _imd defc
. Frauen % " Frauenschicksal . " Paris und Lei —das pzig Madchen , 1839 . die Gattin . " 1839 : 2 vols .
§ « Erste und letzte Liebe . " ' 1838 der , . Hochzeit " Der Zogling Lei der _ISTatur 1844 . " 1842 .
Zog " || Eva lin " . " Welt g der Berlin und Gesellschaft , _IsTatur 1844 . , " . " Roman " 1850 _IsTach : von 2 vo L ls . . MUHbach . " .. Berlin pzig , , 1862 . . " Der i
I Gebmaltf Zitekature. 129
I _GEBMAltf ZITEKATURE . 129
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Oct. 1, 1862, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01101862/page/57/
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