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The German Cla.s.sics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.Volume I.by Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke.PREFACE It is surprising how little the English-speaking world knows of German literature of the nineteenth century. Goethe and Schiller found their
- 801 Then he had given Valentine a few more orders relating to little Annie and had left, fearing that his brother, in his error, might otherwise believe that he wanted to drive him away from the sick-bed of his children. Apollonius had said that little Annie
- 802 "Now," said Herr Nettenmair, when Valentine had returned to him, "the old fool has of course told our neighbor the fairy-tale that he spun out of thin air, and the young wife has confided it to all the gossips in town!"Valentine noticed nothing of the
- 803 The rumor which the old gentleman had heard on his way to St.George's, had penetrated to the street where the house with the green shutters stands. One pa.s.ser-by said to another: "Have you heard the news? A slater has been killed in Brambach." The yo
- 804 Apollonius was compelled to come to a decision. He could not. The yawning discord in his soul became ever greater. If he resolved to renounce happiness, the phantom of guilt disappeared and happiness stretched out alluring arms toward him. She loved him a
- 805 The German Cla.s.sics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.Vol. X.by Kuno Francke.BISMARCK AS A NATIONAL TYPE[1]BY KUNO FRANCKE, PH.D., LL.D., Litt.D. Professor of the History of German Culture, Harvard University. No man since Luther has been a more
- 806 _Le souper est servi_, the evening is gone, and I have done nothing but chat with you and smoke: is that not becoming employment for the dike-captain? Why not?A mysterious letter from ---- lies before me. He writes in a tone new for him; admits that he pe
- 807 Your most faithful B._Tomorrow I'll send you a hat_.[15]Berlin, Sunday, May 30, '47._Tres Chere Jeanneton_,--Your letter of day before yesterday, which I have just received, has given me profound pleasure and poured into me a refres.h.i.+ng and more joy
- 808 I have the greatest longing to be with you, my angel, and think day and night about you and your distress, and about the little creature, during all the wild turmoil of the elections. * * *Here in Brandenburg the party of the centre is decidedly stronger
- 809 Erfurt, April 23, '50._My Darling_,-- * * * We shall probably be released a week from today, and then we have before us a quiet Schonhausen summer, as the cry of war is also dying. It is really going to be summer again, and on a very long walk, from whic
- 810 Frankfort, June 26, '51._My Darling_,--Today I have been suffering all day long from homesickness. I received your letter of Sunday early, and then I sat in the window and smelled the summer fragrance of roses and all sorts of shrubs in the little garden
- 811 Your most faithful v.B.Moscow, June 6, '59.A sign of life, at least, I want to send you from here, my dear, while I am waiting for the samovar, and a young Russian in a red s.h.i.+rt is struggling, with vain attempts, to light a fire; he blows and sighs,
- 812 Farewell, my heart. Kiss the children.Your v.B.Gastein, August 30, '71.Happy the man to whom G.o.d has given a virtuous wife, who writes him every day. I am delighted that you are well, and that you have come to be three, to whom I hope to add myself as
- 813 BISMARCK TO KING WILLIAM I.Donchery, September 2, '70.After I came here yesterday evening, by your Royal Majesty's command, to take part in the negotiations on the capitulation, these were interrupted until 1 o'clock in the night, by time for considera
- 814 You celebrate on September 23, my dear Prince, the day on which, twenty-five years ago, I called you into my Ministry of State, and shortly afterwards gave the Premiers.h.i.+p into your hands. The distinguished services you had previously rendered to the
- 815 I again slipped off the rails of my parliamentary liberal tendencies, with regard to which I found little understanding or sympathy in Pomerania, but which in Schonhausen met with the acquiescence of men in my own district, like Count Wartensleben of Karo
- 816 [Footnote 28: An attempt made by a handful of students and peasants to blow up the Federal Diet in revenge for some Press regulations pa.s.sed by it. They stormed the guard house, but were suppressed.][Footnote 29: See the "Proceedings during my stay at
- 817 GENTLEMEN OF THE REICHSTAG OF THE NORTH GERMAN FEDERATION: When I welcomed you here at your last a.s.sembly, it was with joy and grat.i.tude because G.o.d had crowned my efforts with success. I could announce to you that every disturbance of peace had bee
- 818 BISMARCK AS THE "HONEST BROKER"February 19, 1878 TRANSLATED BY EDMUND VON MACH, PH.D.[The complete victory which Russia had won in the Turkish war had greatly disturbed the European powers, and in Germany much apprehension was felt for the safety of Aus
- 819 When he said that every evil troubling us, even the rate of interest and I know not what else, was based on the uncertainty of our conditions, and when he quoted the word of a colleague of a "hopeless confusion"--well, gentlemen, then I must repeat what
- 820 If compulsion is exercised, it is necessary for the law to establish a department of insurance. This is cheaper and safer than any company.You cannot expose the savings of the poor to possible insolvency, nor can you allow any part of the contributions to
- 821 That no temporary arrangement is contemplated will be perfectly clear, I believe, when I ask you to survey with me the dangers of war which we have met in the past forty years without having become nervously excited at any one time.In the year 1848, when
- 822 With the powerful engine into which we are transforming the German army one does not make an attack. If I were to come before you today, on the a.s.sumption that conditions were different from what I believe they are, and said, "We are considerably menac
- 823 THE LIFE OF MOLTKE BY KARL DETLEV JESSEN, PH.D.Professor of German Literature, Bryn Mawr College To relate, in detail, the story of the life of General-Fieldmarshal Graf Helmuth von Moltke--or, as we shall briefly call him, Moltke--means to give an accoun
- 824 Agriculture is even in a worse state. One often hears the complaint that the cost of all the necessities of life has increased in Constantinople fourfold since the annihilation of the Janizaries, as if heaven had decreed this punishment on those who exter
- 825 The pashas of the frontier provinces repay these constant depredations with repressive measures on a big scale and are not concerned about the individuals who are made to suffer. When they saunter forth with a few regiments of regular cavalry and a field
- 826 TRANSLATED BY GRACE BIGELOW Thursday, August 28th The City of Moscow takes it for granted that the Emperor has not yet arrived. A few a.s.sert that he has been since yesterday at the Castle Petrofskoy, an hour's ride from here, where he is holding court
- 827 What a city would St. Petersburg have been, did her wide streets extend to Balaklava and did the Winter Palace face the deep blue mirror of the Black Sea; if the Isaac Church stood at the height of Malakoff; if Aluschta and Orianda were the Peterhof and G
- 828 IId Corps, General Frossard--St. Avold.IIId Corps, Marshal Bazaine--Metz.IVth Corps, General Ladmirault--Diedenhofen.Vth Corps, General Failly--Bitsch.VIth Corps, Marshal Canrobert--Chalons. VIIth Corps, General Felix Douay--Belfort.Thus there were only t
- 829 Marshal Bazaine had not thought it advisable to proceed to Verdun now that the Germans were so close on the flank of such a movement. He preferred to a.s.semble his forces at Metz, in a position which he rightly supposed to be almost impregnable.Such a po
- 830 When Bazaine, at three o'clock, received word that the Germans were extending the line to enclose his right wing, he ordered Picard's Division of the Grenadier Guards, posted at Plappeville, to advance to the scene of action. Though the distance was no
- 831 But, more than this, a trusty councillor has been a.s.signed us, who is independent of our wills, and bears credentials from G.o.d Himself.Conscience is an incorruptible and infallible judge, whom, if we will, we may hear p.r.o.nounce sentence every momen
- 832 Yet La.s.salle's position with regard to some important theoretical questions was distasteful to Marx. In philosophy, for example, La.s.salle was a pure Hegelian and never abandoned the idealistic standpoint of his master. Marx, as is well known, was a m
- 833 We are on the ground here of action and reaction. Each of these circ.u.mstances is a cause for the other, and the latter then reacts upon the former, and extends it and increases its scope.It must be clear that the production of an article in enormous qua
- 834 Now no man, of course, who is twenty, fifty, or a hundred times as rich as another eats by any means twenty, fifty or a hundred times as much salt, or bread, or meat; or drinks fifty or a hundred times as much beer or wine; or has fifty or a hundred times
- 835 Such is the real moral nature of the State--its true and higher task.This is so truly the case that for all time it has been carried out through the force of circ.u.mstances, by the State, even without its will, even without its knowledge, even against th
- 836 "_Quasi lignum vitae_," says Pope Alexander IV. in a const.i.tution addressed to the University of Paris in 1256, "_Quasi lignum vitae in Paradiso Dei, et quasi lucerna fulgoris in Domo Domini, est in Sancta Ecclesia Parisiensis Studii disciplina_."
- 837 From this difference between the two cla.s.ses, in point of ethical principle, follows, as a matter of course, the difference in political ideals.The _bourgeoisie_ has elaborated the principle that the end of the State is to protect the personal liberty o
- 838 So they reflected and held their peace. Now, Gentlemen, are you quite sure that a political upheaval will never recur? Are you ready to swear that you have reached the end of historical development? Or are you willing to see your lives and property again
- 839 In the first place a full recognition of the inadequacy or the viciousness of a given inst.i.tution must arouse in any person of normal sensibility an enduring purpose to change such an inst.i.tution, if possible, and the arousing of such an undying purpo
- 840 Now, whereby, according to this pa.s.sage, have I accomplished my alleged incitement to hatred and contempt? "By these expositions,"says the doc.u.ment. That is to say by a purely theoretical, purely objective exposition of historical events; by what th
- 841 OPEN LETTER TO THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE (1863) FOR THE SUMMONING OF A GENERAL GERMAN WORKINGMEN'S CONGRESS AT LEIPZIG BY FERDINAND La.s.sALLE TRANSLATED BY E.H. BABBITT, A.B.a.s.sistant Professor of German, Tufts College Gentlemen:--You have asked me in yo
- 842 Permit me to adduce the testimony of a single authority--the admission of a strict conservative, a strict royalist, Professor Huber--a man who has likewise devoted his studies to the social question and the development of the workingmen's movement.I like
- 843 And surely there is no fact more true, more thoroughly established, than that you would never accomplish this if you were reduced exclusively and essentially to your own isolated efforts as individuals alone.Just for this reason it is the business and the
- 844 The German Cla.s.sics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries.Volume 12.by Various.THE LIFE OF GUSTAV FREYTAG By ERNEST F. HENDERSON, PH.D., L.H.D. Author of _A History of Germany in the Middle Ages; A Short History of Germany, etc._ It is difficult to
- 845 OLDENDORF.You yourself do not believe, Colonel, that I would do anything discreditable?COLONEL.Not? I am not so sure, Oldendorf. Since you have turned journalist, edit your _Union_ and daily reproach the State with its faulty organization, you are no long
- 846 I went where you did. Why should I not stand here? I know the Colonel as well as you do. BLUMENBERG. Dont be forward and dont be impudent. Go and wait at the gate, and when I bring you the article, quickly run with it to the press--understand? SCHMOCK. Ho
- 847 COLONEL. I think it will do. Take it; but not a word-- BLUMENBERG. You will let me send it at once to press. [_At the door._] Schmock! [SCHMOCK _appears at the door, takes the ma.n.u.script and exit quickly._] SENDEN. Blumenberg is keeping the sheet up
- 848 Father!OLDENDORF.Colonel, I do not comprehend this att.i.tude, and I beg you to consider that we are speaking before witnesses.COLONEL.Do not ask for any consideration. It would have been your place to show consideration for the man whose friends.h.i.+p y
- 849 SENDEN.Good-by, Colonel. (_To_ IDA.) My respectful compliments, Miss Berg.[_Exit together with_ BLUMENBERG.]IDA (_embracing_ ADELAIDE).I have you at last. Now everything will be all right! ADELAIDE.What is to be all right? Is anything not all right? Back
- 850 Will you do my bidding with regard to Ida and the professor? Now I have you! COLONEL. Will you do me the favor of choosing your husband this winter while you are with us? Yes? Now I have _you_! ADELAIDE. Its a bargain! Shake hands! [_Holds out her hand to
- 851 And about the pond. Three hundred and sixty carp!ADELAIDE.And sixty gold-tench; don't forget that. And the old carp with the copper ring about his body, that he put there, came out with the last haul, and we threw him back again.KORB.And how he will ask
- 852 Let us have it![_Reads in the newspaper._]"Was.h.i.+ng stolen from the yard"--"Triplets born"--"Concert"--"Concert"--"Meeting of an a.s.sociation"--"Theatre"--all in order--"Newly invented engine"--"The great sea-serpent spied."[_Jumping u
- 853 BOLZ. Him we must have. What sort of a man is he? KaMPE. He is very blunt, they say, and no politician at all. BELLMAUS. But he has a pretty daughter. KaMPE. Whats the use of his pretty daughter? Id rather he had an ugly wife--one could get at him more
- 854 OLDENDORF.Don't play the clown just now. You can imagine how unpleasant my position in the Colonel's house has become. The worthy old gentleman either frigid or violent; the conversation spiced with bitter allusions; Ida suffering--I can often see that
- 855 See that n.o.body disturbs him! [_Coming to the front._] So that is settled.--Adelaide here in town! I'll go straight to her! Stop, keep cool, keep cool! Old Bolz, you are no longer the brown lad from the parsonage. And even if you were, _she_ has long s
- 856 KORB.I hear they are. I, too, received a card.BOLZ (_to himself_).Has it come to this? Poor Oldendorf!--And Adelaide at the club fete of Mr. von Senden!KORB (_to himself_). How am I going to begin and find out about his love-affairs?(_Aloud._) Oh, see her
- 857 A lady I dont know wishes to pay her respects to you. BOLZ. A lady! And to me? MILLER. To the editor. [_Hands him a card._] BOLZ (_reads_). Leontine Pavoni-Gessler, _nee_ Melloni from Paris. She must have to do with art. Is she pretty? MILLER. Hm! So, s
- 858 [_Pause;_ ADELAIDE _and_ IDA _look at each other._ IDA _sighs._] ADELAIDE. Perhaps he has work to do. IDA. Or he is vexed with us because I am going to the fete tonight. COLONEL (_irritably_). Nonsense, you are not his wife nor even openly his fiancee.
- 859 [_Exeunt_ IDA _and_ ADELAIDE _on the left._]_Enter_ SENDEN, BLUMENBERG, _a third gentleman._ SENDEN.Colonel, we come on behalf of the committee for the approaching election to notify you that that committee has unanimously voted to make you, Colonel, our
- 860 [SENDEN, _from the door, motions the gentlemen in the garden to come in_.]BLUMENBERG.We venture to urge you, knowing that so good a soldier as you, Colonel, makes up his mind quickly.COLONEL (_after struggling inwardly_).Well, so be it, gentlemen, I accep
- 861 [_Both walk up and down._] That appears to end it, Professor! My wishes are of no account to you; I ought to have known that! We must go our separate ways. We have become open opponents; let us be honest enemies-- OLDENDORF (_seizing the_ COLONELS _hand_)
- 862 ADELAIDE.Yes, he described them right vividly, all the little wraps and cloaks of vanity.IDA.And within an hour he lets them throw the cloak about himself. Why, it is terrible! And if father is not elected? It was wrong of Edward not to give in to father
- 863 These good townspeople are delighted with our arrangements. It was a fine idea of yours, Blumenberg, to have this fete.BLUMENBEEG. Only hurry and get people warmed up! It's a good thing to begin with some music. Vienna waltzes are best on account of the
- 864 [BELLMAUS _and_ SCHMOCK _leave_.]BOLZ. We might as well separate, too.KaMPE. I'll go and see how people feel. If I need you I'll look you up.BOLZ. I had better not show myself much. I'll stay around here.[_Exit_ KaMPE.] Alone at last![_Goes to centre d
- 865 PIEPENBRINK. Here's a quiet spot; we'll sit down here.FRITZ. Bertha would prefer staying in the ball-room. Might I not go back with her?PIEPENBRINK. I have no objection to you young people going back into the ball-room, but I prefer your staying here wi
- 866 PIEPENBRINK. They don't know that their own wine, too, is from my cellars. Ha! Ha! Ha!BOLZ (_turning to him_). Are you laughing at us, Sir?PIEPENBRINK. Ha! Ha! Ha! No offense. I merely heard you talking about the wine. So you like Piepenbrink's wine bet
- 867 PIEPENBRINK. Ah, indeed! You don't belong to the party, I suppose, and on that account do not like it.BOLZ. It's not that! But when I reflect that all these people have been invited, not really to heartily enjoy themselves, but in order that they shall
- 868 SENDEN. He is unbearable! I see that you are as indignant as I am. He s.n.a.t.c.hes away our people; it can no longer be endured.BOLZ (_who had gone the rounds of table, returning and standing in front of_ MRS. PIEPENBRINK). It really isn't right to let
- 869 [_Stamping his foot_.]Confound it![_Goes to rear of stage_.]IDA (_coming forward with_ ADELAIDE).This uncertainty is frightful. Only one thing is sure, I shall be unhappy whichever way this election turns out. [_Leans on_ ADELAIDE.]ADELAIDE.Courage! Coura
- 870 ADELAIDE } My presentiment! Father!} [_Hurries to him_].} (_together_).} IDA } Dear me!SENDEN. It was going splendidly. We had 47, the opponents 42 votes. Eight votes were still to be cast. Two more for us and the day would have been ours. The legally app
- 871 May I not stay with you now, of all times?COLONEL (_with an effort_).I shall be better off alone, now.[_Exit through centre door_.]ADELAIDE (_alone_). My poor Colonel! Injured vanity is hard at work in his faithful soul.And Ida. [_Gently opens the door on
- 872 Pardon me for saying so, plainly. (_Ingratiatingly_.) Is the misfortune so great if you become member for this town a few years later, or even not at all?OLDENDORF.Miss Runeck, I am not conceited. I do not rate my abilities very high, and, as far as I kno
- 873 Perfectly in earnest. Why should I wish to seem to you different from what I am? We journalists feed our minds on the daily news; we must taste the dishes Satan cooks for men down to the smallest morsel; so you really should make allowances for us. The da
- 874 ADELAIDE.Listen! This night I read in the stars that you were to become Mrs.Member-of-Parliament. A big star fell from heaven, and on it was written in legible letters: "Beyond peradventure she shall have him!"The fulfilment has attached to it but one c
- 875 ADELAIDE (_indifferently_.) Do you suppose this gentleman who drank the three gla.s.ses of punch would be willing to repeat his disclosures before other persons?BELLMAUS.He said he would, and spoke of proofs too.ADELAIDE (_aside_). Aha! (_Aloud_.) I fear
- 876 [_Exit_.]COLONEL.There is something up, here, too. I dread to open them. [_Breaks open the first one_.] What the devil! A poem?--and to me? "To our n.o.ble opponent, the best man in town."--Signed? What is the signature?"B--aus!" B--aus? I don't know
- 877 I am at home to no one any longer!CARL.So I told the gentleman; but he insisted on speaking to you, saying that he came in on an affair of honor.COLONEL.What? But Oldendorf won't be so insane--show him in here! _Enter_ BOLZ.BOLZ (_with dignity_).Colonel,
- 878 Within the precincts of our town, Blessed by each burgher's son, There dwells a knight of high renown, A n.o.ble, faithful one.Who doth in need for aid apply To this brave knight sends word; For love is his bright panoply And mercy is his sword.We laud h
- 879 Sir, youre in league with the devil! BOLZ (_turning quickly around_). Very kind of you, Colonel, to show yourself at the window with me. [COLONEL _retreats_.] SENDEN (_from below_). Whose voice is that! BOLZ. Good evening, Mr. von Senden!--The gentleman
- 880 COLONEL.Gray, girl, gray and stormy. Vexation and grief are buzzing round in my head until it is fit to burst. How is the child?ADELAIDE.Better. She was wise enough to fall asleep toward morning. Now she is sad, but calm.COLONEL. This very calmness annoys
- 881 Oh please, don't trouble yourself on my account.ADELAIDE.Can we help you with anything else?SCHMOCK.What should you be able to help me with? [_Examining his boots and clothes_.] I have everything in order now. My trouble is only that I have got into the
- 882 ADELAIDE.Nor is it worth while to do so. But still I beg you won't look at them. You know enough now, for you know that he, with his a.s.sociates, does not merit such great confidence as you have latterly reposed in him.COLONEL (_sadly_).Well, well! In m
- 883 On a visit I am making in my own interest.KORB (_to_ ADELAIDE).Mr. von Senden wishes to pay his respects.COLONEL.I don't wish to see him now. ADELAIDE.Be calm, Colonel! We have not time to be angry even with him. I shall have to see him for a few moments
- 884 BOLZ (_drawing_ OLDENDORF _to the front_).And you are no longer vexed with us?OLDENDORF.Your intention was good, but it was a great indiscretion.BOLZ. Forget all about it! (_Aloud_.) Here, take your gla.s.s and sit down with us. Don't be proud, young sta
- 885 I acknowledge that I have bought it merely as accredited agent of a third person. Here is the deed; it contains no secrets. [_Hands him a paper_.]OLDENDORF (_looking through it, to_ BOLZ).It is drawn up by a notary in due form--sold for thirty thousand th
- 886 ADELAIDE (_bowing_).How do you do, gentlemen! [_To the staff_.] Am I right in a.s.suming that these gentlemen have hitherto been connected with editing the paper?BELLMAUS (_eagerly_).Yes, Miss Runeck! Mr. Kampe for leading articles, Mr. Korner for the Fre
- 887 ADELAIDE.About that I am no longer the one to decide. For I have still a confession to make to you. I, too, am not the real owner of the newspaper.BOLZ.You are not? Now, by all the G.o.ds, I am at my wit's end. I'm beginning not to care who this owner i
- 888 For even at that time he felt himself secure and strong in his faith.As early as 1516 he wrote to Spalatin, who was the link of intercourse between him and the Elector, Frederick the Wise, that the Elector was the most prudent of men in the things of this
- 889 For twenty more busy years he was destined to work as an educator of his nation. During this time his greatest work, the translation of the Bible, was completed, and in this work, which he accomplished in cooperation with his Wittenberg friends, he acquir
- 890 When the Princess was excited, she grew quiet as if paralyzed; she also lacked the easy graces of society. The two natures did not agree.Then, too, her manner of showing affection toward her husband, always dutiful, and subordinating herself as if under a
- 891 While still only a boy of twelve in the palace in Berlin, Frederick the Great had been reminded by his father's anger and sorrow that the kings of Prussia had a duty as protectors toward the German colonies on the Vistula. For in 1724 a loud call fro
- 892 a.s.sociate Professor of German, Leland Stanford Jr. University CHAPTER I In front of the old manor house occupied by the von Briest family since the days of Elector George William, the bright suns.h.i.+ne was pouring down upon the village road, at the qu
- 893 "No, he didn't commit suicide, but it was something of that nature.""Did he make an unsuccessful attempt?""No, not that. But he didn't care to remain here in the neighborhood any longer, and he must have lost all taste f
- 894 Later in the day Baron Innstetten was betrothed to Effi von Briest. At the dinner which followed, her jovial father found it no easy matter to adjust himself to the solemn role that had fallen to him. He proposed a toast to the health of the young couple,
- 895 "Oh, how well I feel," said Effi, "so well and so happy! I can't think of heaven as more beautiful. And, after all, who knows whether they have such wonderful heliotrope in heaven?""Why, Effi, you must not talk like that. You
- 896 "You see, mama, the fact that he is older than I does no harm. Perhaps that is a very good thing. After all he is not old and is well and strong and is so soldierly and so keen. And I might almost say I am altogether in favor of him, if he only--oh,
- 897 "I understand him perfectly.""But he can't marry her.""No.""His purpose, then?""A wide field, Luise." This was the day after the wedding. Three days later came a scribbled little card from Munich, wit
- 898 "You are quite right. We even have a captain who was once a pirate among the Black Flags.""I don't know what you mean. What are Black Flags?""They are people away off in Tonquin and the South Sea--But since he has been back a
- 899 "Yes, I have. And his Lords.h.i.+p, is he always up so early?""Always, your Ladys.h.i.+p. On that point he is strict; he cannot endure late sleeping, and when he enters his room across the hall the stove must be warm, and the coffee must no
- 900 With that Innstetten went away and left his young wife alone. She sat, leaning back, in a quiet, snug corner by the window, and, as she looked out, rested her left arm on a small side leaf drawn out of the cylindrical desk. The street was the chief thorou