Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Volume I Part 16

Page 2, line 16, _for_ great, _read_ green.

43 -- 14, _for_ altamen, _read_ attamen.

46 -- 5, omit _patrician_.

47 -- 2, _for_ 'vengeful, _read_ revengeful.

95 -- 2, _for_ Haitsinger, _read_ Haitzinger.

95 -- 12, _for_ tiefe, _read_ tief.

95 -- 21, _for_ Becher, _read_ Becker.

147 -- 2, in the note, _for_ Hienrich, _read_ Heinrich.

147 -- 3, in the note, _for_ Wladimer, _read_ Wladimir.

181 -- 1, _for_ first, _read_ second.

184 -- 17, _for_ Erden, _read_ Erben.

193 -- 5, _for_ wsache, _read_ wasche.

197 -- 14, _after_ since, _insert_ "High-born Hoel."

211 -- 9, _for_ Elangau, _read_ Erlangen.

230 -- 10, _for_ liebe, _read_ lieber.

230 -- 11, _for_ schrecklich Schichsal, _read_ schreckliches Schicksal.

230 -- 13, _for_ grab, _read_ Grab.

252 -- 19, _for_ twelve, _read_ eight.

270 -- 16, _for_ Neurather, _read_ Neureuther.

291 -- 1, in the note, _for_ par, _read_ pas; and _for_ pas _read_ par.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In Goethe's Iphigenia.]

[Footnote 2: Over another iron door was writt,

_Be not too bold._

FAIRY QUEEN, Book iii. Canto XI.]

[Footnote 3: See Wordsworth's Poems.]

[Footnote 4: Two celebrated antique gems which adorn the relics of the Three Kings.]

[Footnote 5: It is nearly twice the size of the famous and well known Medusa Rondinelli, now in the Glyptothek at Munich.]

[Footnote 6: Professor Wallraff died on the 18th of March, 1824.]

[Footnote 7: Amongst others, Jean Paul, in the "Heidelberger Jahrbucher der Literatur," 1815.]

[Footnote 8: Since the above pa.s.sage was written, Mrs. Austin has favoured me with the following note: "Goethe admired, but did not like, still less esteem, Madame de Stael. He begins a sentence about her thus--'As she had no idea what duty meant,' &c.

"However, after relating a scene which took place at Weimar, he adds, 'Whatever we may say or think of her, her visit was certainly followed by very important results. Her work upon Germany, which owed its rise to social conversations, is to be regarded as a mighty engine which at once made a wide breach in that Chinese wall of antiquated prejudices, which divided us from France; so that the people across the Rhine, and afterwards those across the channel, at length came to a nearer knowledge of us; whence we may look to obtain a living influence over the distant west. Let us, therefore, bless that conflict of national peculiarities which annoyed us at the time, and seemed by no means profitable.'"--_Tag- und Jahres Hefte_, vol. 31, last edit.

To that WOMAN who had sufficient strength of mind to break through a "Chinese wall of antiquated prejudices," surely something may be forgiven.]

[Footnote 9: Johanna Schopenhauer, well known in Germany for her romances and her works on art. Her little book, "Johan van Eyk und seine Nachfolger," has become the manual of those who study the old German schools of painting.]

[Footnote 10: Or Gebhard, for so the name is spelt in the German histories.]

[Footnote 11: For the story of Archbishop Gebhard and Agnes de Mansfeld, see Schiller's History of the Thirty Years' War, and c.o.xe's History of the House of Austria.]

[Footnote 12: The gardens and plantations round the castle are a favourite promenade of the citizens of Heidelberg, and there are in summer bands of music, &c.]

[Footnote 13: When Gustavus Adolphus took Mayence, during the same war, he presented the whole of the valuable library to his chancellor, Oxenstiern; the chancellor sent it to Sweden, intending to bestow it on one of the colleges; but the vessel in which it was embarked foundered in the Baltic sea, and the whole went to the bottom.]

[Footnote 14: M. Pa.s.savant is a landscape-painter of Frankfort, an intelligent, accomplished man, and one of the few German artists who had a tolerably correct idea of the state of art in England. He is the author of "Kunstreise durch England und Belgium."]

[Footnote 15: She was cotemporary with Cleopatra, (B. C. 33,) and was particularly celebrated for her busts in ivory. The Romans raised a statue to her honour, which was in the Guistiniani collection.--V. PLINY.]

[Footnote 16: Lucas Kranach (1472) was one of the most celebrated of the old German painters; from a principle of grat.i.tude and attachment, he shared the imprisonment of the elector John Frederic, during five years.]

[Footnote 17: In September, 1833.]

[Footnote 18: His own expression.]

[Footnote 19: Dannecker has been enn.o.bled; his proper t.i.tles run thus--Johan Heinrich von Dannecker, Hofrath, (court counsellor,) knight of the orders of the Wurtemburg crown, and of Wladimir, and professor of sculpture at Stuttgardt.]

[Footnote 20: Rauch is knight of the Red Eagle, and member of the senate.]

[Footnote 21: Christian Rauch was born in 1777, and Christian Frederic Tieck in 1776.]

[Footnote 22: Formerly Madame Jageman, the princ.i.p.al actress of the theatre at Weimar. Her talents were developed under the auspices of Goethe and Schiller. She was the original Thekla of the Wallenstein, and the original Princess Leonora of the Ta.s.so. In these two characters she has never yet been equalled. The quietness, amounting to pa.s.siveness, in the _external_ delineation of the Princess in Ta.s.so, affords so little _material_ for the stage, that Madame Wolff, then the first actress, preferred the character of Leonora Sanvitale, and Madame Jageman was supposed to derogate in accepting that of the Princess. Such is the consummate, but evanescent delicacy of the conception, that Goethe never expected to see it developed on the stage; and at the rehearsal he threw himself back in his chair, and shut his eyes, that the image which lived in his imagination might not be profaned by any tasteless exaggeration of action or expression. He soon opened them, however, and before the rehearsal was finished, started off the chair, and nearly embraced the actress. She looked and felt the part as only a woman of exceeding taste and delicacy would have done; the very tone of her mind, and the character of her beauty, fitted her to represent the fair, gentle, fragile, but dignified Leonora.]

[Footnote 23: Lessing.]

[Footnote 24: Characteristics of Goethe, vol. i. p. 29.]

[Footnote 25: I believe it was in allusion to this distinction, and her own n.o.ble birth, that her father-in-law used to call her playfully, "_die kleine Ahnfrau_," (the little ancestress.)]

[Footnote 26: M. Besle, otherwise the Comte de Stendhal, and, I believe, he has half a dozen other _aliases_.]

[Footnote 27: Alfred Tennyson.]

[Footnote 28: "Thro' Erin's isle, to sport awhile," &c.]

[Footnote 29: In the German maps, Zweibrucken; the capital of those provinces of the kingdom of Bavaria, which lie on the left bank of the Rhine.]

[Footnote 30: The entire grouping of these figures is from the design of Mr. Robert c.o.c.kerell, one of the original discoverers, who in ascertaining their relative position has been guided in some measure by the situation in which their fragments were found strewed in front of the temple, and overwhelmed with ma.s.ses of the frieze and pediment; but has been much more indebted to his own artist-like feeling, and architectural skill. He is of opinion that the western pediment contained several other figures besides the ten which have been restored.]

[Footnote 31: The character of the Emperor Rodolph would be one of the most interesting speculations in philosophical history. He was evidently a fine artist, degraded into a bad sovereign--a man whose constructive and imaginative genius was misplaced upon a throne. The melancholy, and incipient madness which hovered over him, was possibly the result of the natural faculties suppressed or perverted.]