SCHILLER'S MARRIAGE.
The two great intellects, whose genius shed such rays of light over
Weimar, and over all Germany, neither knew nor loved each other. These
two heroes of poetry still kept at a distance from each other, and
yet there was a wondrous uniformity in their inner life, although
their outward existence was so different. Goethe, the recognized poet,
the man of rank, who had never known want or care: Schiller, still
struggling, creating much that was great and beautiful, but aspiring
to, and foreseeing with prophetic mind, a future of greater and more
brilliant success--Schiller, the man of humble standing, who was still
wrestling with want and care. His anxiety and poverty were not destined
to be relieved by the appointment which Schiller received in the year
1789, as Professor of History at the University of Jena, for--no
salary was attached to this professorship!
"A Mr. Frederick Schiller," wrote (not the poet, but) the Minister
Goethe--a report forwarded to the Duke Charles August at that time--"a
Mr. Frederick Schiller, who has made himself known to the world by his
History of the Netherlands, is disposed to take up his abode at the
University of Jena. The possibility of this acquisition is all the more
worthy of consideration from the fact that it could be had gratis."
Gratis! The Dukes of Weimar, Meiningen, Altenburg, and Gotha,
the patrons of the University of Jena, could offer nothing but a
professorship without salary to the poet of "Don Carlos," of "Fiesco,"
of "Louise Müllerin," and of "The Robbers"--to the poet of so many
glorious songs, to the author of "The History of the Netherlands!" They
had but one title, but one appointment, to bestow upon the man to honor
whom was to honor themselves, and this appointment was made to save
expense!
Schiller accepted this professorship with the nobility of mind of the
poet whose soul aspired rather to honor and renown than to pecuniary
reward, and who had, for those who profited by his labors while
withholding all compensation, nothing but a contemptuous shrug of the
shoulders and a proud smile. Schiller's friends were, however, by no
means satisfied with this appointment; his practical friend Körner
called his attention to the fact, that the necessities of life were
also worthy of some consideration, advising him to inform the minister
of state that the addition of a salary to his title of professor was
both desirable and very necessary. But Schiller was too proud to
solicit as a favor what had not been accorded from a sense of duty. He
would not beg bread for the _professor_, hoping that the poet would be
able to support him. He had been accustomed to study close economy,
and to struggle with want; care had been his inseparable companion
throughout his entire life. The poet had ever looked up to heaven in
blissful enthusiasm, rejoicing in the glory of God, and had been "with
Him" while the world was being divided among those who understood
looking after their pecuniary interests better than the poet. His heart
was rich, and his wants were few. He did not desire wealth, and had
refused the rich lady tendered him in marriage by his friend Körner.
His loving heart should alone be his guide in the selection of a wife.
His loving heart! Had not Schiller a Charlotte, as well as Goethe? The
year 1789 had been an eventful one in Goethe's heart's history, and had
effected a final separation between Goethe and his Charlotte: the same
year was also destined to be an important one in Schiller's heart's
history, and to bring about a crisis in his relations to his Charlotte.
The experience of the two women at this period was of a similar nature.
Charlotte von Kalb had often entreated Schiller to pay her a visit,
but in vain. He had invariably excused himself with the plea that the
duties of his professorship in Jena were of such a nature that it was
impossible to leave there even for a single day.
At last Charlotte despatched a messenger to Jena with this laconic
letter: "If you do not come to me in Weimar, I will go to you in Jena.
Answer." And Schiller's answer was--"I am coming!"
She was now awaiting him, gazing fixedly at the door; a nameless fear
made her heart throb wildly.
"He shall not find me weak," murmured she; "no, I will neither weep nor
complain. No, my pride must give me strength to conceal my anguish, and
to hear the decision, whatever it may be, with a smiling countenance. I
will cover my heart with a veil, and it shall rest with him to withdraw
it with a loving hand, if he will."
"Here you are at last, my Frederick!" she said to Schiller on his
arrival. "It seems, however, that a threat was necessary to bring you!"
"No, dearest friend," replied Schiller, gayly, "the threat was
unnecessary! You know that I love you with my whole soul, and my heart
has always yearned to see you once more. The duties of my professorship
are such that I find it almost impossible to leave Jena."
A bitter smile rested for a moment on Charlotte's lips, but she quickly
repressed it. "It is but natural that the new professor should be so
busily engaged as not to be able to find time to pay his friend a
visit. And yet, Frederick, it was necessary that I should speak to you;
life has now brought me to a point where I must decide upon taking one
of two paths that lie before me."
"Charlotte, I am convinced that your heart and your wisdom will prompt
you to take the right path," said Schiller.
She inclined her head in assent. "At our last interview I was excited
and agitated; I reproached you for not having spoken to my husband. I
believe I even wept, and called you faithless and ungrateful."
"Why awaken these remembrances, Charlotte? I have endeavored to forget
all this, and to bear in mind that we should make allowance for words
uttered by our friends when irritated. We have both dreamed a sweet
dream, my friend, and have, unfortunately, been made aware that our
romantic air-castles are not destined to be realized in this prosaic
world."
"Do you call the plans we have both made for our future, romantic
air-castles?"
"Yes," replied Schiller, with some little hesitation, "I am unhappily
compelled to do so. A marriage with you was the brightest and most
glorious air-castle of my fantasy; and may the egotism of my love be
forgiven if I once dreamed that this castle might on some blissful day
descend to earth and open its portals to admit us within its radiant
halls! But sober thought followed quickly upon this trance of ecstasy,
and told me that these heavenly dreams could not be realized."
"Why not?"
"Because I can offer you no compensation for the great sacrifice you
would be compelled to make, and because the thought that you might
live to regret what you had done fills me with horror. You are a lady
of rank, accustomed to the comforts and luxuries of an aristocratic
house. I am only a poor professor, accustomed to hardships and want,
and not in a condition to provide a comfortable home for a wife.
Whoever takes me must enter upon life with modest expectations, and
begin an existence at my side that offers little for the present but
hopes and prospects. It would even require much self-denial on the
part of a young girl, who is but just beginning life, to become the
wife of a poor professor and poet. How much more would it require on
the part of a lady of high rank to exchange a palace for an humble
cottage, and to relinquish wealth, rank, and even the son she so dearly
loves? What could I give her in return after she had relinquished all
these blessings? Charlotte, to live with me is to labor, and labor
would wound your tender hands. Therefore, forgive the enraptured poet,
who thought only of his own happiness when he dared to hope you might
still be his, without reflecting that he had no right to purchase his
happiness at the expense of that of his idol."
"You are right, my dear friend; we must never permit love to make us
selfish, and we must consider the happiness of the object of our love
more than our own. We will both consider this and act accordingly.
You have my happiness at heart; let me, therefore, consider yours.
Schiller, I conjure you by the great Spirit of Truth and Love, now
surely hovering over us, tell me the truth--answer the question I am
about to ask as truthfully as you would before God: Do you love me so
firmly, so warmly, and so exclusively, that my possession can alone
make you happy?"
"Charlotte, this is, indeed, a question that I could only answer before
God."
"God dwells in the breast of each human being, and, by the God of Love,
who has stretched out His hand over me, I demand of you a truthful
answer to my question: Do you love me so firmly, so warmly, and so
exclusively that my possession can alone make you happy?"
A pause ensued--a long pause. The God of Truth and of Love, whose
presence Charlotte had so solemnly proclaimed, alone beheld the pale
countenances of the two beings who stood face to face with the bitter
feeling that nothing on earth is constant, and that all is subject to
change and destruction--even love!
"No!" said Schiller, in a low voice, "no, I do not love you so firmly,
so warmly, and so exclusively. Nor do I believe we would be happy
together, for it is only when no passion exists that marriage can unite
two beings in an eternal union; and then, Charlotte, you are also too
exalted for me, and a woman who is a superior being cannot, I believe,
make me happy. I must have a wife whom I can educate, who is my
creation, who belongs to me alone, whom I alone can make happy, and in
whose existence I can renew my own--a wife who is young, inexperienced,
and gentle, not highly gifted, devoted to me, and eager to contribute
to my comfort and peace."[63]
"In a word, a woman who is young," said Charlotte, with proud
composure, "or rather, a young girl who is like a sheet of white paper,
on which your love is to write the first word."
"Yes, Charlotte, so it is! You understand my heart as you have always
understood it."
"I relinquish from to-day all further claim to any such understanding,
and I can only give you one last piece of advice, and that is, to ask
Mademoiselle von Lengefeld if she is not desirous of being the sheet
of paper on which you could write your name. I advise you to marry
Mademoiselle von Lengefeld; she seems to possess all the required
qualifications: she is not gifted, has no experience, and can certainly
not be called a superior being."
"But a noble, an amiable being," cried Schiller, passionately; "a being
full of innocence and goodness, a fair creature full of heart and
feeling, full of gentleness and mildness; moreover, she has a noble
heart, and a mind capable of great cultivation. She has understanding
for all that is intellectual, reverence for all that is great and
beautiful, and is at the same time modest, affectionate, playful, and
naïve."
"In brief, she is an ideal," said Charlotte, derisively. "But let your
thoughts sojourn with me for a moment longer. At my request you have
told me the truth, now you shall hear the truth from my lips. We might
have spared ourselves all these explanations, but I desired to probe
your heart to assure myself that I would not wound you too deeply by
telling you what I must now avow. Now that I am no longer uneasy on
that score, you shall hear the truth from my lips. My air-castles
have vanished also--vanished so long since, that I scarcely have a
recollection of them, and can only think of them as of a foolish dream,
that neither could nor should have been realized. I have awakened,
and I will remain what I am, the wife of Mr. von Kalb, and the mother
of my son. I live once more in the present, and the past with all its
recollections and follies is obliterated."[64]
"I am glad to hear this," said Schiller, in a clear and composed voice,
the gaze of his large blue eyes fastened on Charlotte's cold and
haughty countenance with an expression of severity. "I am glad to hear
that the past is obliterated from your remembrance, as it is from mine.
I can now speak to you freely and openly of the happiness which the
future has, as I hope, in store for me. I love Charlotte von Lengefeld,
and now that you have discarded me, I am at liberty to ask her to
become my wife."
"Do so," said she, quietly. "We are about to separate, but my blessing
will remain with you; any correspondence between us in the future
would, of course, be annoying, and as our letters of the past have
become meaningless, I must request you to return mine."[65]
"As you had already written to me on this subject several times, I
took the precaution of bringing these letters with me to-day. Here they
are. I have preserved them carefully and lovingly, and I confess that
it gives me great pain to part with these relics of the past."
He handed her the little sealed package which he had drawn from his
breast-pocket; she did not take it, however, but merely pointed to the
table.
"I thank you, and I will now return your letters."
She walked into the adjoining room, closing the door softly behind her.
With trembling hands she took Schiller's letters from the little box in
which she had kept them. She kissed them, pressed them to her heart and
eyes, and kissed them again and again, but when she saw that a tear had
fallen on the paper she wiped it off carefully; she then walked rapidly
to the door and opened it. On the threshold she stood still, composed,
proudly erect.
"Schiller, here are the letters!"
He approached and took them from her hand, which she quickly withdrew.
She then returned to the adjoining room, locking the door behind her.
This was their leave-taking, this their parting, after long years of
love!
With downcast eyes and in deep sadness of heart, Schiller left the
house of the woman he had once loved so ardently. But this soon passed
away and gave place to the blissful feeling that he was once more
free--free to offer his heart, his hand, and his life, to the woman he
loved!
A few days later his heart's longing was gratified. He went to
Rudolstadt and received a loving and cordial welcome from both sisters.
Both! But only one of the sisters was at liberty to bestow her hand.
Caroline was not! Her hand was fettered by her plighted troth, and even
if her husband's consent to a separation could have been obtained,
there were other fetters. She was in her sister's confidence. She knew
that Charlotte loved Schiller tenderly.
They were together in the quiet little parlor, they three alone, for
the mother was absent on a little journey. Schiller sat between the
sisters, his countenance radiant with happiness.
"Oh, my fair friends, how delighted I am to be with you once more!"
"Schiller," whispered Caroline, laying her hand gently on his shoulder,
"Schiller, I have a word to say to you. Come!"
She conducted him to a window-recess, and inclined her head so close
to his ear that her trembling lips kissed one of his fair locks.
"Schiller," whispered she, "you love my sister, and I know that she
loves you. Courage, confess your love, and God bless you both!"
Having said this, she walked noiselessly from the room, retired to her
solitary chamber, closed the door behind her, and sank down on her
knees. She shed no tears, and the brave soul of this noble woman was
exalted above all pain in this hour of her great sacrifice. Her chaste
lips would not express the noble secret in words, even before God. But
her Maker may have read her sacrifice in the expression of anguish and
resignation in her upturned countenance.
"Be happy, Schiller! God bless you both! Be happy! then I will be
happy, too."
On returning to the parlor, Caroline's countenance shone with pleasure,
and her lips parted in a happy smile when she saw the two lovers in a
close embrace, heart to heart.
"Oh, dear Caroline, she has confessed; you were certainly right! She
loves me, she is mine. And so are you, Caroline, you are also mine, and
we three will belong to each other for evermore!"
"Yes, for evermore, my friend, my brother!" She gently entwined her
arms around Schiller's and Lottie's neck; and now the three were joined
in one close and loving embrace.
"I have at last entered the haven of happiness," said Schiller, in deep
emotion. "I have, at last, found my home, and eternal peace and repose
are mine. I am encircled with your love as with a halo, ye beloved
sisters; and now all the great expectations which you have entertained
concerning me will be realized, for happiness will exalt me above
myself. Charlotte, you shall never again have cause to tell me I look
gloomy, for your love will shed a flood of sunshine on my existence
hereafter. You shall teach me to laugh and be merry. O God, I thank
Thee for permitting me to find this happiness! I, too, was born in
Arcadia!"
They held each other in a close embrace, they wept for joy, and their
souls, beaming eyes, and smiling lips, exchanged mute vows of eternal
love and fidelity.
These were blissful days for Schiller. Madame von Lengefeld had given
her consent to the marriage of her daughter Lottie with Schiller,
sooner than the lovers expected. Charles August gave the poet the title
of privy-councillor, and attached a salary of two hundred dollars to
his professorship, as a marriage present. The title delighted Madame
von Lengefeld, and somewhat reconciled her aristocratic heart to the
thought that her daughter, who had been on the point of becoming a
maid of honor, should now marry a man of the people. Schiller deemed
his salary of two hundred dollars quite a small fortune, and hoped
that this, together with the fruits of his poetic labors, would be
sufficient to provide a comfortable home for his darling, and--"space
in the smallest cottage for a happy and loving pair!"
They were a "happy, loving pair;" and the serene heaven of their
happiness was undimmed by the smallest cloud. Had a cloud appeared,
Charlotte's quick eye would have detected and dissipated it before
the lovers were aware of its existence. The sister watched over their
happiness like their good genius, like a faithful sentinel.
At times, while gazing dreamily into his Lottie's soft eyes, Schiller
would smile and then ask her if she really loved him, as though such
happiness were incredible.
In reply, Charlotte would smile and protest that she had loved him
for a long time, and that her sister, who had known her secret, could
confirm her statement.
"And she it was who told me this sweet secret. Yes, Caroline was the
beneficent angel who infused courage into my timid heart."
"Yes, she is an angel!" said Charlotte, thoughtfully. "I look up to her
as to a being far superior to myself, and, let me confess, my beloved,
that the thought sometimes torments me that she really could be more to
you than I am, and that I am not necessary to your happiness."
He gazed into her lovely countenance, an expression of perfect
peace resting on his own. "Your love is all I require to make me
happy. The peculiar and happiest feature of our union is, that it is
self-sustaining, ever revolving on its own axis in a well-defined
orbit; this forbids my entertaining the fear that I could ever be less
to either of you, or that I could ever receive less from you. Our
love has no need of anxiety--of watchfulness. How could I rejoice in
my existence unless for you and Caroline?--how could I always retain
sufficient control over my own soul, unless I entertained the sweet
conviction that my feelings toward both, and each of you, were of such
a nature that I am not forced to withdraw from the one what I give
to the other? My soul revolves between you in safety, ever returning
lovingly from the one to the other, the same star, the same ray of
light, differently reflected from different mirrors. Caroline is nearer
to me in age, and therefore more closely akin to me in the form of her
thought and feeling; but I would not have you other than you are, for
all the world, Lottie. That in which Caroline is your superior, you
must receive from me; your soul must expand in my love, and you must be
my creation. Your blossom must fall in the spring of my love."[66]
"Yes," cried Charlotte, entwining her arm more closely around his neck,
"I will be your creation, and happy shall I feel in the consciousness
of belonging to you, and of being able to contribute somewhat to your
happiness."[67]
On the morning of the twentieth of February, 1790, a closed carriage
drove rapidly from Rudolstadt in the direction of Jena. But this
carriage stopped in the little village in the immediate vicinity of the
university-city--Weningenjena--at the door of the village church with
its tapering spire.
The sexton was standing at the open door in his Sunday suit; when
the carriage drove up, he hastened forward to open the door. A tall
gentleman, attired in black, stepped out; his countenance was pale, but
a wondrous light beamed in his eyes, and noble thoughts were enthroned
on his brow, while his lips were parted in a soft smile. With tender
solicitude, he helped an elderly lady from the carriage. Then followed
a younger lady, with pale cheeks, but with eyes that were radiant with
love and peace. At last a young girl--a girl with rosy cheeks, and a
timid, childlike smile on her fresh lips--was about to descend from
the carriage, but the tall gentleman would not suffer her to touch the
pavement with her tender little feet. He raised her fair form in his
arms, and bore her over the rough stones and into the church.
The two ladies followed, and behind them came the sexton, gravely
shaking his head, and ruminating over the strangely quiet nature of
the approaching ceremony. He did what Pastor Schmidt, who was already
standing between the burning wax-candles in front of the altar, had
told him to do. He closed and locked the church doors, so that no one
should see what was going on in the church.
And you, too, ye rude winter winds, hold your breath and blow softly!
and thou, thou clear blue sky, look down mildly; and thou, bright sun,
shed thy warmest rays through the windows into the little village
church of Weningenjena. For the poet Frederick Schiller is standing
before its altar at the side of his lovely bride. Charlotte weeps, but
her tears are tears of emotion and of joy. The mother stands at her
side, her hands folded in prayer. Caroline's eyes are upturned; and God
reads the mute entreaty of her lips.
Schiller's countenance is radiant with peace and happiness, and manly
determination beams in the large blue eyes that gaze so firmly and
tranquilly at the preacher, who stands before the altar, proclaiming
the sacred nature of the union about to be consummated.
Subdue your fury, ye boisterous winter storms! do not touch the poet's
cheeks too rudely with your cold breath. He has already suffered
much from cold winter winds, he has journeyed over rough paths--has
renounced and struggled, and has often seen his heart's fairest
blossoms bruised and borne away by rude storms. Be tranquil, and let
the spring-time come, that the buds of his hopes may put forth blossoms.
Shed thy glorious light upon this little church, thou heavenly sun!
greet the poet Frederick Schiller, the poet of the German nation, who
is now celebrating life's fairest festival before its holy altar! But,
"Ah, life's fairest festival
Ends the May of life anon;
With the girdle, with the veil,
Is the fond illusion gone!"
THE END.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1: "Schiller's Relations to his Parents and the Walzogen
Family," pp. 62-68.]
[Footnote 2: Fragment of a dialogue between the King and the Marquis,
last Scene, Act III., of "Don Carlos:"
"_King._ And now leave me.
"_Marquis._ If I can do so with an accomplished hope, this will be the
most glorious day of my life.
"_Marquis._ It is no lost one in mine!"]
[Footnote 3: Schiller's own words.--See "Schiller's Relations to
Parents," etc., p. 450.]
[Footnote 4: Schiller's own words.--See "Relations to Parents," etc.,
p. 451.]
[Footnote 5: Ibid., p. 416.]
[Footnote 6: Schiller's own words.--See "Relations to Parents," etc. p.
452.]
[Footnote 7: Schiller's own words to Henrietta von Wolzogen.--See
"Relations," etc., p. 452.]
[Footnote 8: This scene is historically exact.]
[Footnote 9: Schiller's own words.--See "Relations," etc., p. 448.]
[Footnote 10: See Charlotte.--"For the friends of the deceased,"
printed as MS., p. 86.]
[Footnote 11: A provincialism. It should be, "ist nicht aus Stuttgart,"
and means is not from Stuttgart.]
[Footnote 12: In Germany, the word "thou" is frequently used instead of
"you" in families and among children, and intimate and dear friends.]
[Footnote 13: Schiller's own words.--See "Schiller's Flight from
Stuttgart," etc., p. 216.]
[Footnote 14: Zimmermann.--"Frederick the Great's Last Days," p. 163.]
[Footnote 15: Frederick's words a short time before his death.]
[Footnote 16: The king's own words.]
[Footnote 17: "Will you have the goodness to give me your arm, my
prince?"]
[Footnote 18: "Sire and my king, you confer a great honor on me, and I
am very grateful."]
[Footnote 19: The Fox and the Crow.]
[Footnote 20: Frederick's own words.--See "Frederick William III.," von
Eylert, vol. i., p. 455.]
[Footnote 21: To this habit of Frederick William may be attributed
the fact that he was not able to express himself fluently in his own
language in later years. When the king spoke French his conversation
was vivacious and forcible; when he spoke German, however, he was stiff
and embarrassed.]
[Footnote 22: The king's own words, uttered beside Frederick's corpse.]
[Footnote 23: This drawing, which the prince royal had made of the
body of Frederick the Great, was afterward framed, and hung for many
years in his study, with this inscription, in his own handwriting: "I
sketched this on the 17th of August, 1786, between the hours of 9 and
10 /P.M./"]
[Footnote 24: See Preuss.--"Frederick the Great, a Biography," vol. iv.]
[Footnote 25: This scene is accurate.--See "Mémoires de la Comtesse de
Lichtenau."]
[Footnote 26: "Unter den Linden," a street in Berlin.]
[Footnote 27: Historical.]
[Footnote 28: A nickname given the princess at court.]
[Footnote 29: Frederick von Trenck suffered long years of imprisonment
on Princess Amelia's account.--See "Frederick the Great and his
Family," by L. Mühlbach.]
[Footnote 30: This article appeared in the August number of 1788, and
created a great sensation in all classes of society.]
[Footnote 31:
"I will repay thee in a holier land--
Give thou to me thy youth;
All I can grant thee lies in this command.
I heard, and, trusting in a holier land,
Gave my young joys to Truth.
Give me thy Laura--Give me her whom love
To thy heart's core endears;
The usurer bliss pays every grief--above!
I tore the fond shape from the bleeding love
And gave--albeit with tears."
_Sir E. B. Lytton's Schiller._
]
[Footnote 32: Marie von Arnim married Count von Kunheim, and retired
with him to his estates in Prussia. She never saw Schiller again, nor
did she ever forget him. A fine portrait of Schiller hung over her bed
until her death. After the death of her husband, in the year 1814,
Countess Kunheim returned to Dresden, and lived there in retirement
until her death, in the year 1847. But she died without issue, and
could not fulfil Schiller's prophecy, and speak to weeping children and
grandchildren assembled around her death-bed.]
[Footnote 33: Schiller's own words.--See his correspondence with
Körner.]
[Footnote 34: Schiller and his Times, by Johannes Scherr.--Vol. ii., p.
89.]
[Footnote 35: "Trip to Italy."--Goethe's Works.]
[Footnote 36: Goethe's own words.--See "Trip to Italy," Goethe's works,
vol. xxiii., p. 159.]
[Footnote 37: This cat story Goethe relates precisely as above, in his
"Italian Trip."--See Goethe's Works, vol. xxiii., p. 181.]
[Footnote 38: Goethe's own words.--See "Italian Trip," vol. xxiv., p.
146.]
[Footnote 39: When marriage is spoken of, my child, I feel like leaving
at once.]
[Footnote 40: Let us only marry, the rest will take care of itself.]
[Footnote 41: Leonora's own words.--See Goethe's Works, vol. xxiv., p.
135.]
[Footnote 42: Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, canto v.--Translated by
H. W. Longfellow.]
[Footnote 43: See Goethe's Works, vol. xxiv., p. 37.--"Trip to Italy."]
[Footnote 44: Goethe's own words.--See correspondence of Duke Charles
August with Goethe, vol. ii.]
[Footnote 45: Von Stein, the name of Goethe's sweetheart--anglicized:
_Stone_.]
[Footnote 46: Goethe's correspondence with Madame von Stein, vol. ii.,
pp. 170, 171. Literal translation.]
[Footnote 47: Schiller's Life, by Caroline von Wollzogen, p. 115.]
[Footnote 48: Schiller's own words.--See "Schiller's Correspondence
with Körner," vol. ii., p. 21.]
[Footnote 49: Ibid.]
[Footnote 50: Goethe's words.--See "Goethe's Works," vol. xxiii.]
[Footnote 51: Goethe's words.]
[Footnote 52: In the latter part of the year 1787.]
[Footnote 53: See "Private Letters," vol. iii.]
[Footnote 54:
He who has not the spirit of his age
Has nothing but the unhappiness of his age.
]
[Footnote 55: Goethe's own words.--See "Goethe's Correspondence with
Madame von Stein," vol. ii., p. 326.]
[Footnote 56: Goethe's own words.]
[Footnote 57: Goethe's own words.--See "Goethe's Correspondence with
Madame von Stein," vol. iii., p. 327.]
[Footnote 58: Goethe's own words--See "Correspondence with Madame von
Stein," vol iii., p. 328.]
[Footnote 59: Ibid.]
[Footnote 60: Goethe's own words.--See "Correspondence with Madame von
Stein," vol. iii., p. 330.]
[Footnote 61: Christiane Vulpius really rejected Goethe's offer of
marriage.--See Lewes's Life of Goethe, vol. ii. p. 121.]
[Footnote 62: "Often have I erred, and always found the path again, but
never found myself happier; now in this maiden lies my happiness. If
this, too, is an error, oh spare me the knowledge, ye gods, and let me
only discover it beyond the grave!"]
[Footnote 63: Schiller's own words.--See "Schiller's Correspondence
with Körner," vol. ii.]
[Footnote 64: Charlotte's own words.--See "Schiller's Life of Caroline
von Wollzogen."]
[Footnote 65: Charlotte's own words.--See "Charlotte: A Life Picture,"
p. 80.]
[Footnote 66: Schiller's own words.--See "Schiller's Life of Caroline
von Wollzogen."]
[Footnote 67: Lottie's own words.--Ibid.]
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simplicity of its style and the strong impression it makes upon
the reader of being the uninfluenced evidence of an eye-witness
who 'draws the thing as he see it,' and without exaggeration or
prejudice."--_Sunday-School Times._
"Will have a permanent value and a popularity which doubtless the
more technical books will lack."--_Army and Navy Register._
"Accurate as well as picturesque.... Mr. Hemment has done his work
well. In point of faithful realism there has thus far been nothing
better in the whole war literature."--_Boston Journal._
"The pictures comprise the best set of war views that we have
seen."--_Philadelphia Inquirer._
"He is able to give us consecutive pictures of the war, possessing
the great value of viewing it from beginning to end."--_Baltimore
Sun._
"It is a history of the war that will become more valuable as time
passes, for it is, in its pictures, an unimpeachable record of
events."--_Cleveland Plain Dealer._
_RECOLLECTIONS OF THE CIVIL WAR._ By /Charles A. Dana/. With
Portrait. Large 12mo. Cloth, gilt top, uncut, $2.00.
"Out of his rich material Mr. Dana has woven a marvelous
narrative.... Written, as the book is, in Mr. Dana's inimitable
English, it is worthy to rank with the autobiography of Grant
in the list of the really great works which will bear down to
posterity the true story of the great war for freedom and for the
Union."--_Boston Journal._
"It is a book filled with vitality and warm with strong life. It
tells history in the strongest and most impressive manner, and the
personality of the writer gives it an additional interest. It is
one of the valuable books of the year.... It is sincere even in
its prejudices; the most original and enduring work of a strong
thinker. The book is a most important contribution to the history
of the civil war; it is readable from first page to last, and its
vitality will outlast that of more elaborate works on the same
subject."--_Boston Saturday Evening Gazette._
"The book will rank among the trustworthy sources of knowledge of
the civil war."--_New York Evening Post._
"As interesting as a novel."--_Buffalo Commercial._
"The book is one of absorbing interest."--_Providence Journal._
THE STORY OF THE WEST SERIES.
/Edited by/ RIPLEY HITCHCOCK.
Each, illustrated, 12mo, cloth, $1.50.
_THE STORY OF THE RAILROAD._ By /Cy Warman/, author of "The Express
Messenger," etc. With Maps, and many Illustrations by B. West
Clinedinst and from photographs.
"As we understand it, the editor's ruling idea in this series has
not been to present chronology or statistics or set essays on the
social and political development of the great West, but to give
to us vivid pictures of the life and the times in the period of
great development, and to let us see the men at their work, their
characters, and their motives. The choice of an author has been
fortunate. In Mr. Warman's book we are kept constantly reminded of
the fortitude, the suffering, the enterprise, and the endurance
of the pioneers. We see the glowing imagination of the promoter,
and we see the engineer scouting the plains and the mountains,
fighting the Indians, freezing and starving, and always full of a
keen enthusiasm for his work and of noble devotion to his duty. The
construction train and the Irish boss are not forgotten, and in the
stories of their doings we find not only courage and adventure, but
wit and humor."--_The Railroad Gazette._
_THE STORY OF THE COWBOY._ By /E. Hough/, author of "The Singing
Mouse Stories," etc. Illustrated by William L. Wells and C. M.
Russell.
"Mr. Hough is to be thanked for having written so excellent a book.
The cowboy story, as this author has told it, will be the cowboy's
fitting eulogy. This volume will be consulted in years to come as
an authority on past conditions of the far West. For fine literary
work the author is to be highly complimented. Here, certainly, we
have a choice piece of writing."--_New York Times._
_THE STORY OF THE MINE._ As illustrated by the Great Comstock Lode
of Nevada. By /Charles Howard Shinn/.
"Mr. Shinn writes from ample personal acquaintance with his
subject--such acquaintance as could only be gained by familiarity
with the men and the places described, by repeated conversations
with survivors of the early mining adventures in the Sierras and
the Rockies, and by the fullest appreciation of the pervading
spirit of the Western mining camps of yesterday and to-day. Thus
his book has a distinctly human interest, apart from its value as a
treatise on things material."--_Review of Reviews._
_THE STORY OF THE INDIAN._ By /George Bird Grinnell/, author of
"Pawnee Hero Stories," "Blackfoot Lodge Tales," etc.
"Only an author qualified by personal experience could offer us
a profitable study of a race so alien from our own as is the
Indian in thought, feeling, and culture. Only long association
with Indians can enable a white man measurably to comprehend their
thoughts and enter into their feelings. Such association has been
Mr. Grinnell's."--_New York Sun._
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, NEW YORK.