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    History ««* ^^ w p ^^ , 3 —^ induced ^^ B *» B *> ^^ B ^ * ^ the ^ - ^ p' — ^> Minister *^> - **^ ^»» w v * j » «* w von ^^ * ^ b * Altenstein * B ^ ^ bWF »^ bb > ^ bp * ^ pF »») ^^ BVpfc Btfeaflb to * B * - — appoint V V JT ^ - bT ^ *^ ^—^—^» < bv bb Ranke ^ I ^ w " •¦»•— ^*>^»» ^ B » in B »»^ Bfc ^ Bi ¦» 1825 *¦* -Bpw- ^^^ Extraordinary bpvkbbj »* kM » bvbbb * ^» pT ^ V *^ ci ffc bI ¦»» B » ||>^ «/

    Professor of History _ at Berlin . man Unfortunatel St . Paul had y , Ranke a weak - ^ p- , m / -w like bodily a still greater

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    o one ne . . This This disturbed disturbed the the historian historian ' s s equa p . nna--nimity but little . He knew that he had great i b works ¦ to write ¦ - bf and he looked ¦¦»

    the ^ b & ^ b * 'b * v tim ^ - » » e ^^ - *^ devoted " f ^ b ^ ^ ^^ » to ^ bp ^ - - lecturing ^* , v ^ w ^ — v ^» ^ ^^ as ^* being » - ^* f- « k * h ^^ ^^^ quite upon ^^* fe ft ^ ^^ « Vai 4 fc v as * r \ # misspent ^ b ) 4 b ¦¦ » bw ¦ ¦ ' " - *^ w- ^ - ^^ ^* ^ ^^ as ¦ »¦ " - ^ was ¦ ¦ — - *^ the - — —* — - ^^ time ^ p — - ^ ^— - ^^ occup ^«^ ^ p- - ^^ ^» m m *^ ied ^»» ^ B ^ ~^* - *») in pVk d »^ class ~»* b » ^ fc ^ i ^ Mp ^ v ^^

    during his school days . Abandoning , therefore , lecturing , for a

    while whilft at at least least , , he he se set t to to work work on on his his ' Jrrinces Princes and Peoples in Southern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries . ' It is said

    that when writing this work Ranke consulted , besides Hesir ^ es manv o ther . ner sources annrnfis no no fewer fe \ Tw & r t +. han Ti 5 i . n 5 Fi ? 3 5

    folio volumes many of the despatches , of Papal nuncios k and Venetian b ambassadors h I which he ¦ ¦

    ^ ef ^^^^^ b H « ^ F MV » ~ ~ ^^^ ^*^^* ^^ ^ B ^ *^^^ b V ^^ ^^ ^^ ^ " ^ ^ V ^^ V ^ v ^— ^^ ^ ' ^ v ^^ . ^ ^ n *^»^ ^ to ^ VT ^^ ^^^ V ' ^^ ' ^ " ^^^ ^ P ^ ^ . ^ V V ^ K ^^ ^ ^ h ^ . V ^^^ ^^ B ^^ ^^^ himself had unearthed in the Berlin Library . The Prussian Government , with a wise

    generosity , now placed funds at the disposal of Ranke , which enabled him to travel and

    pursue his important researches in Austria and Ital 6 immense y . In Venice and inexhaustible he found what ' treasure he called an of

    reports full of sound information , and for the ^ most K ^ fe 4 W ^ h ^ Pi . f V part J mr «« r « r ^^ ^^ impartial rf ^ - ^ ^ K ^ P ^ V ^^ W H «^ ^^ ^^ " ¦ W ^ B . . V

    Ranke left Berlin in 1827 and did not return ^^ ^^^ ^ b ^ b ^^ to ^^ ^»* the ^ V «* ^* ' ^^ cap ^ to ^^^* W ^ T ^ ital ^ ^ v ^ h ^^^^ until ^^ W ^^ ^» ^^ ^ V ^^ 1831 W ~*^ ^ h >^ ^^^— , K w V T ^ h » ^ en ^ kd ' d ^ ^^ al ¦ m rV « ^ l ^ ^ E flM ^^ V urope t « ^ ^^ ^ N ^~ J — ^ fe ^

    was stirred by the July revolution in Paris . The enterprising Perthesof Gothainduced

    Ranke to edit his ' Historical , and , Political Journal *( Historische-politische Zeitschrift ) . But

    the historian was far too impartial to please and either speedil the Constitutionalists y quitted a post or for the which Absolutists he was ,

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    founded in 1834 his Historical Society ( Historische Gesellschaft ) , which has produced some

    tory disci . ples At worth this rf » y time B of the also fe great he wrote master k his of great

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    of Ranke ' s has been made familiar to every Macaulay English reader . Then by 1-BV the came well «> -known the BT Luther essay ¦¦ I ¦ W V ? of work Lord 4

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    While ^^^ ^ this last-named great work was in progress Frederick Ranke William was IV . appointed Prussian by Historio King

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    lished during in the Eng Sixteenth lish by Century the Delegates ' has been of pub the

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    wm In his 70 th Ranke __ finallhis ¦ [ II' , 't'if professorship , year and in his 80 th y gave began up his Jf ra -J ; greatest undertaking' The History of the It

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    in the Illustrirte Zeitung of the 19 th inst . Theatre The t SBBk t performance is i a special k k l 7 of noteworth Faust 1 at Bk BF event the Bb L . yceum

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    me But tap in hysical ' Hamlet and , ' philosop althoug h h there l speec are hes , long the ac 5 » Y » tion +, ion of of the t . nfi piece rn ' ftp . ft never nfiVfir flags fln . D"s . and a . ncl t t . ln he pi mott m . ntA . f f

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    sympathy . The movement of the piece con- ' tinually flags , its plot and its tendency are

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    as J ^ JL A T _ rl _ very ^_ f ^ b ^ T _ irBW ^ rMf ma pT T T n y may bVb 4 ^ bV p . ^^* B laygoers V ^^ ^** T T ^ Bb woul * * *^ d Jfcj ^ Bp probably r % *» p »* B * . g MBBh »**> v ^ V *» ¦! , wish *^^ ^** - « — to -vr see l ^ y » f and »» »> - *^ " « hear b vr- «*< F «• it BB r . m * t / ^^ - ^ - »^^* — , ^^^^

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    doctor ' s learned edition of Goethe ' s ' Egmont ' day ( which and we which hope Mr as an . Irving acting will lay produce we should one

    think \ Aiw « , m *^ "v- « . b _ ^* would » - v v 4 * 4 Xp ' . b a . , a better wm «^« " « jl «^ repay ^¦* - ' * v <* fca * f ^) I p production ~»» - ^ ' w , m * *^ "f < " — ^ -- ) - — - - a —¦—bibliogra H _^ JL R-r AAV b & * i »* V ph »^^ < N . M > y W of ^ - ^ 4 k the «/** ^^ Eng . ¦—» « hu & ~> lish ^ bcv * a —> versi r ™»> rw— ons - *«>¦ —* — r » of -bp- — - /

    ' Faust' : —Authors : Lord L . F . Gower ; Abraham tion tion 1855 iftftK Hayward Professor T > rofA «« or ; in . JT . prose ft S . . Blackie Blackie , 1833 . , 1834 1834 5 th ; t edi D JJ - ..

    1840 Syme , ^ , Sir 1834 G ; . ; Lefevre Eton . K , . 2 Talbot nd edition , 1835 1843 , ; J . ; Hills C . J . ,

    Brooks Rronka J . Galvan , 2 2 nd nd 1860 edition firlitinn Beresford , 1847 1847 ; : JLu L . 1862 r Filmore ilmore Theodore , . 1 1853 « 53 ; : Martin 2 , nd edition ; 1866 , ; J . W ; . Grans

    — a » k — . , aw * A . _<¦ h _ a HbP ^ ¦ * bF ^ T »* TP * , li Bernays 1867 ; J , . 1837 Anster ; A , . 1867 G * " ^ . ^^ urney . Parts , 1842 I . . and II ^^ ., J .

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  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1885, page 1625, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121885/page/9/