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But we are afraid the majority of our readers are not so much interested in the character of this great man as we are ourselves. Goethe is, in truth, little known in works have been well translated, and these this country, but by hearsay; few of his have had but a limited circulation. We shall, ing matter, and only inform the admirers of therefore, pass for the present to more amus media. GÖTHE aus näherm persönlichen Umgange "It is, no doubt," says Falk, "a peculiar distinction of his genius, that he, as it were, loses himself, and, to a certain degree, dreamingly transmutes himself into the object of his immediate contemplation, whether this happens to be a human being, an animal, a bird, or a plant. Nor can it be denied that Goethe's greatness, both as a naturalist and a poet-his style, his sentiments, his impersonations, his originality, and, I would almost say, the whole weakness as well as strength of his moral nature-may be explained by this intense attention to physical phenomena. Often I have heard him, when he wished to abandon himself to such an investigation, request his friends not to obtrude on him the thoughts of others on the same subject, as it was a strict, undeviating maxim with him, to repel in such a mood of mind every extraneous influence. It was not till after he had tried his whole strength on a subject-when, as it were, he had placed himself opposite to it, and conversed with it alone, that he would enter on the opinions of others; indeed, it delighted him to know what long before him others had thought, done, or written, on the same subject. He would then candidly rectify his views in some particulars; but would also rejoice like a child, when he found that, by his own unbiassed efforts, he had gained a new view of its phenomena.*** Our old German magician (to speak figuratively,) has understood and explained much of the language of birds and flowers. His 'Metamorphoses of Plants,' and ' Doctrine of Colours,' are beautiful monuments of his calm spirit of inquiry: they are filled with the inspired glances of a seer, reaching far forward into coming centuries of science: so, on the other hand, his biographical sketches of Wieland and Voss, two characters so different from his own, sufficiently display, not only his art, but his own beautiful mind, which was able, like a clear The following is a pleasant specimen of Goethe's mode of life and conversational powers, as well as of his views of nature : "One summer's day, in the year 1809, I found him in his garden. He sat by a little table, on which stood a long-necked bottle, containing a lively serpent, which he kept feeding with a He said that it already knew him, as it always quill, and made it an object of daily observation. approached its head towards the edge of the bottle, when it saw him approach. What beautiful intelligent eyes!' he continued. With such a head, it ought to have had many other advantages; but the clumsy writhing body would admit of no more. Nature has withheld hands and feet from this oblong organization, although its head and eyes would have deserved them both. The skeletons of many marine animals distinctly show that Nature, in composing them, already thought of a superior species of terrestrial animals. Very often, in the adverse element, she contents herself with a fish's tail, where she would fain have added a pair of hind legs-indeed, where a sketch of them may be traced in the skeletons.' 'How "By the side of the bottle lay a few cocoons with caterpillars, which Goethe expected would shortly appear, as one could feel them move in the hand. He took them up, looked at them very attentively, and then told his boy to take them into the house, as they would hardly come out so late in the day. It was then four o'clock. At this moment Madame von Goethe entered the garden. Goethe took the cocoons again from the boy, and replaced them on the table. beautifully the fig-tree has got into blossom and leaves!' she called from afar, as she approached us; then, after the usual compliments having passed between her and me, she asked if I had seen and admired the tree closely. Pray let us not forget,' she added, addressing her husband, ' to secure it against the winter.' Goethe smiled, and said, 'Pray, let her show you the fig-tree immediately, else we shall have no peace the whole evening. But it is really a fine tree, and deserves to be taken care of. What is the name of the foreign plant,' resumed the lady, which was lately sent to us from Jena ?' You mean, perhaps, the large hellebore ?'Exactly: it is thriving wonderfully.'-'I am glad of it. In the end we may be able to make a second Anticyra of this place.'-' Here are the cocoons too: have you not noticed anything yet?' -'I had laid them aside for you. Look,' added his ear, how it knocks, and jumps, and struggles unto life! I would call these transmutations wonderful, if the wonderful in nature were not that which occurs every moment. Be this as it may, our friend here must also see the sight. The insect will be out in a day or two, and it will be as fine a one as you have ever seen. I invite you to be here in the garden to-morrow afternoon, if you desire to see something more remarkable than the most remarkable things Kotzebue saw in The Most Remarkable Year of his Life, in his distant trip to Tobolsk. In the meantime, let us place the box in which our fair sylphide is still dressing herself in some sunny window of the summer-house. There you hinder thee in this corner from finishing thy stand, my good, pretty child! No one shall toilet.'-'But,' resumed the lady, glancing at the serpent, how can you bear such an ugly creature about you, and even like to feed it with your own hands. It makes me shudder to look at it!'-'Don't say a word!' answered Goethe ;-(who although calm by nature, had no turning to me, he continued, 'Yes, if the serobjection to this kind of lively prattle ;)-then, pent would do her the favour to spin, and to become a pretty butterfly, there would be nothing said about its horrible appearance. But, dear child, we cannot all be butterflies and fig-trees full of blossom and fruit. Poor snake! they neglect thee: they should look more kindly on thee. How it lifts up its head, and looks at me, as if it knew that I was pleading its cause!' *** Having said this, he began to lay aside his pencil and the paper on which he had been drawing all the while some fantastic landscape, without interrupting himself in his discourse." templative mood: sometimes, when teazed But he was not always in this quiet conby trivial annoyances, he would break out into a strain of invective as severe as it was humorous. Our author gives an entertaining instance of this. One day he found Goethe in the garden, after he had just received the refusal of an actor to play that evening, when all the parts had been arranged :— "Such insults,' he said, in great rage, (filling another glass of wine, and making me sit down,) 'I must submit to from people who, when they get in at one gate of Weimar, already look for the other by which to make their exit. I have been these fifty years a favourite author of the nation you are pleased to call the German; have for these twenty or thirty years been acting privy-councillor, and must yet allow such fellows to overtop me. The deuce take it! To be obliged, at my time of life, to play a principal part in such a tragi-comedy! You will tell me that theatrical affairs are, after all, nothing but rubbish-for you have looked pretty well behind the curtain-and that I should act wisely to throw up the concern at once. But I answer you, that the battery which a general has to defend is also mere rubbish, yet he cannot give it up without also giving up his honour. You must not therefore think him particularly fond of rubbish, nor me either.' "But just posterity,' said I-'Let me hear nothing of posterity,' said Goethe, interrupting me hastily; 'nor of the public, nor of the justice they may one day render to my efforts. I curse the Tasso, because they say it will descend to posterity; I curse Iphigenia;-in a word, I curse everything which this public like in me. I know that they belong to the day, and the day to them; but I won't live for the day. That is the reason why I will have nothing to do with that Kotzebue, because I am determined not to lose even an hour with people who cannot sympathize with me, nor I with them. If ever I should succeed in getting up a work-but I am too old for that-which should make the Germans curse me for some fifty or a hundred years to come, and make them abuse me at all times and in all places, that would be my great delight. It must be something splendid which should produce such an effect with a public so callous as this. There is at least some character in hatred; and if we did but begin once again to show a character, be it in whatever it may, there would be some chance of our again becoming a people. But most of us neither understand how to love or to hate. They don't like me! The faint word! I don't like them either! I have never been able to please them. Above all, if, after my death, my Walpurgis bag should be reopened, and all the Stygian sprites, which I have shut up therein, should break forth to teaze them as they have been teazing me; or if, in the continuation of " Faust," they should hit upon the part where I let the Devil himself find mercy and pardon before God, they will never forgive me the offence. For these thirty years they have been plaguing themselves with the broomsticks on the Brocken, and the cat's conversation in the witch's kitchen, and have never succeeded in allegorizing this dramatic humorous nonsense. Even the ingenious Madame de Staël blamed me for having made the Devil too tame, in the scene with God the Father: what would she say if she were to meet him again in a higher grade, even in heaven!-On my asking what he meant by the Walpurgis bag, of which I had just heard for the first time, he replied, with the assumed gravity of a judge of Avernus, It is a kind of infernal bag, sack, cavity, or by whatever name you may choose to denominate it, originally destined for the reception of witch-scenes in Faust. But, by degrees, as hell itself, which at first had but one chamber, received the additions of the limbos and the purgatory, its destination was extended. Every paper which falls into this bag, falls into hell, from which, as you know, there is no redemption. Indeed, I have a great mind to-day to throw myself into it: and, believe me, I should not get back again. There is a fire burning there, which, if it once got vent, would consume friends and foes. at least, would not advise any one to come too near it. I am afraid of it myself.'" I, Falk, however, gives us, as a specimen of the contents of this mysterious bag (of which it is hoped we shall soon see the whole), an abstract of a suppressed scene of Faust, in which the doctor, having been induced by his "infernal" friend to pay a visit to the emperor, tires his majesty by his learned disquisitions on sublime things; but is relieved by the Devil, who imperceptibly takes his place and shape, and continues the conversation from the point where Faust has stopped. But he talks in a very different key, à tort et à travers, till the "lord of Christendom" declares he never met with such a genius in all his life. If the scene be but half so good as that between Mephistopheles and the Student, it must be capital. We conclude with the following anecdote, although Goethe plays but a secondary part in it : "Goethe was, for a time, manager of an amateur theatre at Weimar. Once, when the 'Jealous Husband' was to be performed, the gentleman who was to act the lover was suddenly taken ill. A Saxon captain good-naturedly offered to undertake the part, although he confessed that he had but little experience in such matters. He went through the rehearsals very decently, and there was little doubt but that, with the help of a good prompter, all would go on well. But when the poor captain actually appeared before the audience, he seemed to lose all memory; still he contrived to halt on till the jealous husband was to rush in and stab him. At this unlucky moment he forgot the catchword, and continued hemming for several minutes, while the furious husband was standing between the side scenes with the uplifted dagger, ready to strike. The captain was about to begin his part afresh, catchwords and all, when, on the advice of Goethe, the husband rushed in, and, by one desperate lunge, thought to silence him. Not so-the captain stood like a wall. It was to no purpose that his adversary entreated him, in a low voice, to fall and die; I have not got the catchword,' was the invariable reply. At last Goethe, quite out of patience, called from behind the scenes: 'Stab him in the back if he won't fall-we must get rid of him at all events.' Upon this, the husband, who had also lost his presence of mind, cried, with a voice of thunder, Die, villain!' and gave him, at the same time, such a blow in the side, that the captain, unprepared for this attack in his flank, actually fell down from the shock; upon which Goethe, fearing his resuscitation, instantly sent in four stout servants with orders to carry him off, dead or alive, by main force." The Natural Son. London: Simpkin & Marshall. THIS is a singular work: amid much that is prosaic and impertinent, there is not a little true, free, vigorous poetry: amid many rambling and incoherent things, there are passages of beauty and feeling worthy of famous names. Savage, in one of his happier moods, sang of The Bastard,' and claimed for him a glory "like a comet's blaze"; in like manner our author claims for his 'Natural Son' a kind of meteoric splendour, and certainly regards him as something more ecstatic than if he had sprung, through permission of mother church, from the sober hero had not the good fortune to come quite bed of marriage. If he meant that, as his regularly into the world, he had a right to act irregularly when he was in it, there can be no doubt that he has fulfilled his meaning to the letter. The Natural Son' is a sad lad-wilful and wild-fond of roaming, and flirting, and gazing on curling love-locks and other tempting and picturesque matters, all of which are described in the rhyming chronicle of his historian: we shall now present Selwyn, the hero of the narrative, to the reader, and follow him a little on his way in this weary world : Our hero roused his energy of mind, And buoyant trod the London road along;On either side the elm and ivy twined, And the wild thrush poured forth its plaintive song: The setting sun in gorgeous hues declined, Leaving a wake of glory, radiant long; The distant village pealed its vesper bell, When Selwyn turned to take a last farewell. The clear vibration from the distant chime, Floating o'er fallow land, and mead, and floodThe deep enchantment of that twilight timePressed on his heart, attuning into rhyme The stilly sounds that swept the wave and wood The sadness of his melancholy mood; And the soft cadence of that prayer-bell Had fastened on his spirit like a spell. On his way to London he dines at an inn, and being something at a loss for an adventure, he looks at a romantic bar-maid, who had a taste for sweet music and wandering travellers: he sees at once that he can diffuse her beauties over a dozen stanzas: her looks are thus recorded: And then she gather'd up her silk attire, And placed the lights upon the polished table; Flashing forbidden beams; would I were able He arrives in London: he had run away from the University, because some one had upbraided him with his birth; and having nothing in his pocket, he enters into the police, and acquits himself so as to gain what he calls the grim approbation of Sir Richard Birnie. He sees many touching sights, and some merry ones: whatever he sees he draws. Here is one of his sad pictures: those who know London will perceive how mournfully correct the portrait is. One bitter night he paced near Whitehall Stair; Heart-struck and faint-a victim that had loved. Leaning her head in anguish on the stone It is not always his misfortune to find A desperate lady by a purling brook: he sees one whose hopes are high and beauty great, and takes a sitting of her in one of her most alluring moments: we must admit a bit of the picture : His mansion stood adjoining Belgrave Square, Ruled by his widowed sister-Lady Freeling; And heard sweet music in the waterfall; And some good rooms for modern habitation; Now it is the pleasure of the poet to make this young lady acquainted with the secret of the parentage of our friend with the number on his neck: she tells him, as he is rendering her some small service in the Park, that he is the son of Lord Glengyle; and she afterwards sends him a note, commanding him to cast away his police livery, and ask for the situation of secretary to her uncle, Sir Joseph Orme: with all this he complies-is installed in this new vocation-and has many opportunities of seeing and admiring his young mistress. It is also his good fortune to render her some requital for her kindness: one sultry day, in a sea-coast excursion near her uncle's country seat, it is her pleasure to bathe:She came alone, at the fresh day-light hour, To the cool bathing-house; and cast aside Her shawl and mantle, as an opening flower Expands upon the sun its beauties wide: She looked a lily in her water-bower, As her bare breast was mirrored in the tide; Enriching the clear gulf with gleams of light, As the moon melts along the waste of night. From her small feet the sandals she unbound, And drew from her straight limbs the silken hose, An Aphrodite-unadorned as Truth- She paused an instant on the fountain's verge, While she is indulging in this summer luxury, the sky darkened, the thunder muttered, and a sudden storm came on-not much to the disquietude of the lady, it seems: Circe, half naked, watched the tempest scowl, When the electric fire the fragments rent,- And flushed she sat, the Naiad of the place! A winged meteor. Had she mused unseen, The spirit which her loveliness had roused was captain of a band of smugglers; and the lady contributed by her voice, as well as by her looks, to his enchantment: she sung a song that proved too much for him : The Smuggler's Escape. The sky grew dark, the dim moon waned, The canvas broad the cutter strained, Loud creaked the quivering mast. A flint-lock flashed along the gale, A rock beneath, stood the Rover-chief, When blood from the heart was spilt; Three cheers for the reckless hearts that roam The deep by the midnight star. The smuggler starts from his lurking place and seizes her: of course, she screams-her screams bring her attendant, who screams also: the united oratory of both brings the secretary, who happens, we know not how, to be most opportunely at hand; and as he had been taught how to handle such desperadoes during his service in the police, he goes roundly to work with the seaman: the struggle is well given : Locked in close grip, as serfs their prowess try, Straining and coiling, knee to knee they stood, Savagely wrestling for the mastery Equal in strength-and seeming bent on blood; Dilated nostril and dark troubled eye, Fierce as the leopard circled by the flood; And red they waxed with wrath, and pent their breath Selwyn, though tall and sinewy, was more slim- The Smuggler had more brawn and bulk of limb, knees, A sculptor might have modelled Hercules. Tore off the leg as he a twig would break, He sprang the casement-down the cliff and brake, With these verses the canto concludes: another is promised soon; we hope it will have all the merits of the present with none of its defects. We have quoted such stanzas as seemed superior to their companions; and our readers will see that they are worthy of notice for their vigour and freedom. Had we desired to be severe, the poem overflows with passages such as a stern and fierce critic loves to pour out his bitterness upon. But we desire to be gentle with an undisciplined glad that no name is to the work; because mind and an unregulated taste. We are we are sure the author will, if he lives, write much better; and he could not be otherwise than ashamed of some of the verses of the "Natural Son.' Irish Minstrelsy, or, Bardic Remains of Ireland, with Poetical Translations. Collected and edited by J. Hardiman, Esq., M.R.I.A. London: Robins. WE have been, for some time, anxious to notice these very interesting and valuable volumes, which, though published in London some months past, are practically as much unknown as if they had appeared in Siberia; but the pressure of novelty confined us within limits too narrow to admit of bestowing on theBardic Remains' the attention they merit, and we deemed delay a less evil than an inadequate notice. The native literature of Ireland is less known to the people of this country, and to a large portion of the Irish themselves, than the literature of the Magyars, the Frisians, or any other of the tribes honoured by the patronage of Dr. Bowring; in that country, nationality has been too often and too long regarded as criminal by the dominant party, and the songs of the bards studiously discouraged and proscribed. Irish music has been more fortunate than Irish poetry; while the affecting melodies of the sister isle have been known and valued in every European country, the original words to which they were sung have "been buried in oblivion," and the few who spoke of them as valuable, treated with ridicule and contempt. The chief cause of this anomaly is, that the history of Irish minstrelsy is also the history of the Irish nation: in Ireland, as in all the Celtic nations, the bards formed a distinct class in the social economy, and possessed a definite rank in the state; music and poetry were cultivated, not as refined amusements, but as instruments of government, and hence both attained a high degree of perfection, long before any other arts of social life had arrived at maturity. When the Anglo-Normans came to colonize Ireland, they entered a country where all the habits and customs differed essentially from their own; and where the amalgamation of the settlers and natives was prevented by a concurrence of circumstances, whose effects are still visible. The bards, thus stripped of their influence, naturally directed all their efforts to re-establish the independence of Ireland; the duty of insurrection was the general subject of their strains, incitement to vengeance the constant theme of their song. On the other hand, the local government, aware that the minstrels were the chief leaders of "agitation," persecuted them without mercy: in all the treaties made between the Irish chieftains and the princes of the house of Tudor, it is expressly stipulated that no protection should be given to poets and rhymers. The great civil war of 1641, a war in all its circumstances wholly unparalleled in the annals of mankind, was fatal to the race of Irish bards. In the preceding century it was a maxim generally acknowledged, that a civilized nation had a right to the lands of a people that had not attained an eminent rank in the arts of social life; that the absence of civilization was a fair pretext for withholding the rights of humanity. On this axiom the Spaniards acted in Peru, the Portuguese in India, and the English in Ireland; the test of civilized invaders, a test that had at all events the merit manners was accordance with those of the of being easily applied; and when swords and muskets were the instruments of argument, the comparison was of course settled in favour of those who possessed the strongest powder and the sharpest steel. But the war of 1641 the children of song:" the army that Crombrought a new and more fearful enemy to well led to Ireland was composed of the wildest fanatics in the parliamentary ranks— men whom he was anxious to remove from England, knowing that they would be the most virulent opponents to his future usurpation! It is useless to tell how by the disunion of the royalists-the treachery of Ormondthe foolish jealousies of the lords of the Paleand the notorious insincerity of the unhappy Charles, this handful of enthusiasts became victorious. Their character, as enemies of Irish literature, and indeed of literature of any kind, is the only matter with which we are concerned. Unexpected success changes the nature of enthusiasm; in its place there arises a stern spiritual pride, mingled with hypocrisy, far more formidable, because far more permanent, than the heat of violent fanaticism. The Cromwellian invaders had been compared by their preachers to the |