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BY CHARLES DAVIS.]
VOIVMB 2.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
TERMS.
Three Dollars in advance— *4 at the end of
the year.
|Q*No subscriptions received for a less terra
than six months and no paper discontinu
ed until all arrearages are paid except
at the option of the publisher.
A CONTRAST.
ALL nations, from the remotest ages, have
had ships, but Columbus only round out
the way to America. Before the time of the
great Spanish navigator, people were only en
abled to paddle about the shores. Just so with
the Life Medicines. It is but two short years
since I first ventured upon an unknown ocean,
and I have discovered the precious object I was
in search of—HEALTH. Vegetable medi
cines were indeed known when I commenced
my search, but their use was not. By the use
of them, I have not only passed from the de
jected invalid, to the hale, hearty and active
man of business, but, comparatively speaking,
I have renewed my youth. I can thus, with
confidence in my own experience, advise with
my fellow citizens. Does the reader want
proof that the VEGETABLE MEDICINES
are suitable to his own case ? I have on file at
my office, 367 Broadway, hundreds of letters,
from some of the most respectable citizens of
this my native land, voluntarily offered in tes
timony of the virtues of A GOOD VEGETA
BLE MEDICINE.
Persons whose constitutions have been near
ly ruined by the “all-infallible" mineral pri
parations of the day, will bear me witness, that
the Life Medicines, and such only, are the
true course to permanent good health.
JOHN MOFFAT.
(itneral remarks relative to Moffat's Life Pills
• and Phoenix. Bitters.
These medicines have long been known and
appreciated, for their extraordinary and imme
diate powers of restoring perfect health, to per
sons suffering under nearly every kind of dis
ease to which the human frame is liable.
In many hundreds of certificated instances,
they have even rescued sufferers from the very
verge of an untimely grave, after all the de
ceptive nostrums of the day had utterly failed ;
and to many thousands they have permanent
ly secured that uniform enjoyment of health,
without which life itself is but a partial bless
ing. So great, indeed, has their efficacy inva
riably and infallibly proved, that it has appear
ed scarcely less than miraculous to those who
were unacquainted with the beautifully philo
sophical principles upon which they are com
pounded, and upon which they consequently
act. It was to their manifest and sensible ac
tion in purifying the springs and channels of
life and enduing them with renewed tone and
vigor, that they were indebted for their name,
which was bestowed upon them at the sponta
neous request of several individuals whose
lives they had obviously saved.
The proprietor rejoices in the opportunity
afforded by the universal diffusion of the daily
press, for placing his VEGETABLE LIFE
PILLS within the knowledge and reach of ev
ery individual in the community. Unlike the
host of pernicious quackeries, which boast of
vegetable ingredients, the Life Pills are purely
and solely vegetable, and contain neither
Mercury, Antimony, Arsenic, nor any other
mineral, in any form whatever. They are en
tirely composed of extracts from rare and pow
erful plants, the virtues of which, though long
known to several Indian tribes, and recently
to some eminent pharmact utical chemists, are
altogether unknown to the ignorant pretenders
to medical science ; and were never before ad
ministered in so happily efficacious a combina
tion.
Their first operation is to loosen from the
coats of the stomach and bowels, the various
impurities and crudities constantly settling a
round them ; and to remove the hardened fae
ces which collect in the convolutions of the
small intestines. Other medicines only par
tially cleanse these, and leave such collected
masses behind, as to produce habitual costive
ness, with all its train of evils, or sudden diar
rhoea, with its imminent dangers. This fact is
well known to all regular anatomists, who ex
aminine the human bowels after death : and
hence the prejudice of these well informed
men against the quack medicines of the age.
The second effect of the VEGETABLE LI FE
PILLS is to cleanse the kidneys and the blad
der, and by this means, the liver and the lungs,
the healthful action of which entirely depends'
upon the regularity of the urinary organs—
The blood, which takes its red color from the
agency of the liver and the lungs before it
passes into the heart, being thus purified by
them, and nourished by food coming from a
clean stomach, courses freely through the
veins, renews every part of the system, and
triumphantly mounts the banner of health in
the blooming cheek.
The following are among the distressing va
of human diseases ? to which the Vegeta
ble Life Pills are weif known to be infallible :
DYSPEPSIA, by thoroughly cleansing the
first and second stomachs, creating a flow of
pure healthy bile, instead of the stale and a
crid kind:— Flatulency, Palpitation of the Heart,
Loss of Appetite, Heart-burn and head-ache,
Restlessness, 111-temper, Anxiety, Languor, and
Mclancholly, which are the general symp
toms of Dyspepsia, will vanish, as a natural
consequence of its cure. Costiveness, by
cleansing the whole length of the intestines
with a solvent process, and without violence;
all violent purges leave the bowels costive
within two days. Diarrhaa and Cholera by
removing the sharp acrid fluids by which
these complaints are occasioned, and by pro
moting the lubricative secretion of the mucus
mambrane. Fevers if all kinds, by restoring
the blood to a regular circulation, through the
process of perspiration in some cases, and the
thorough solution of all intestinal obstructions
in others. The LIFE PILLS have been
known to cure Rheumatism permanently in
three weeks, and Gout in half the time, by re
moving local inflammation from the muscles
and ligaments of the joints. Dropsies of all
kinds, by freeing and strengthening the kid
neys and bladder; they operate most delight
fully on these important organs, and hence
have ever been found a certain remedy for
tlnf worst cases of Gravel. Also, IVorms, by
dislodging from of the bowels the
slimy matter to wtjh these creatures adhere;
Asthma and Consumption, by relieving the air
vessels of the lungs from the mucu*, which
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA.
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 3,1839.
even slight colds will occasion, which if not
removed becomes hardened, and poduces
those dreadful diseases. Scurvy, Ulcers, and
Inveterate Sores, by the perfect purity which
these Life Pills give to the blood, and all the
humors; Scorbutic Eruptions, and Bad Com
plexions by their alterative effect upon the
fluids that feed the skin, the morbid state of
which occasions all Eruptive complaints, Sal
low, Cloudy and other disagreeable Complex
ions. The use of these Pills for a very short
time, will effect an entire cure of Salt rheum ,
Erysipelas, and a striking improvement in the
Clearness of the skin. Common Colds and
Influenza, will always be cured by one dose,
or, by two, even in the worst cases. Piles,
—as a remedy for this most distressing and
obstinate malady, the Vegetable Life Pills de
serve a distinct and emphatic recommenda-
tion. It is well known to hundreds in this
city, that the Proprietor of the invaluable Pills
was himself afflicted with this complaint for
upwards of thirty-five years, and that he tried
in vain every remedy prescribed within the
whole compass of the Materia Medica. He
however, at length, tried the medicine which
he now offers to the public, and he was cured j
in a very shoit time, after his recovery had
been pronounced not only improbable, but ab
solutely impossible, by any human means.
DIRECTIONS FOR USE—The Proprie
tor of the Vegetable Life Pills does not
follow the base and mercenary practice of the j
quacks of the day, in advising persons to take ;
his Pills in large quantities. No good medi
cine can possibly be so required. These Pills
are to be taken at bed time every night, for
a week or fortnight, according to the obstinacy
of the disease. The usual dose is from 2to 5,
according to the constitution of the person.
Very delicate persons should begin with but '
two, and increase as the nature of the case
may require: those more robust, or of very cos
tive habit, may begin with 3, and increase
to 4, or even 5 Pills, and they will effect a suf
ficiently happy change to guide the patient in
their further use. These Pills sometimes oc
casion sickness and vomiting, though very
seldom, unless the stomach is very foul; this,
however, may be considered a favorable symp
tom, as the patient will find himself at once
relieved, and by perseverance will soon re
cover. They usually operate within 10 or 12
hours, and never give pain, unless the bow
els are very much encumbered. They may
be taken by the most delicate females under
any circumstances.—lt is, however, recom
mended, that those in later periods of pregnan
cy should take but one at a time, and thus con
tinue to keep the bowels open: and even two
may be taken where the patient is very cos
tive. One pill in a solution of two table
spoons full of water, may be given to an in
fant in the following doges—a tea spoon full
every two hours till it operates; for a child
from one to five of age, half a pill—and
from five to ten one pill.
THE PIICENIX BITfERS, are so called,
because they possess the power of restoring
the expiring embers of health, to a glowing
vigor throughout the constitution, as the
Pliccnix is said to be restored to life from the
ashes of its own dissolution. The Phoenix
Bitters are entirely vegetable, composed of
roots found only in certain parts of the west
ern country, which will infallibly cure FE
VERS AND AGUES of all kinds; will never
fail to eradicate entirely all the effects of Mer
cury, infinitely sooner than the most powerful
preparations of Sarsaparilla, and will immedi
ately cure the determination of BLOOD TO
THE HEAD; never fail in the sickness inci
dent to young females; and will be found a
certain remedy in all cases of nervous debility
and weakness of the most impaired constitu
tions. Asa remedy for Chronic and Inflam-,
matory Rheumatism, the efficacy of the Phoenix
Bitters will be demonstrated by tbs use of a
single bottle. The usual dose of these bitters
is half a wine glass full, in water or wine, and
this quantity may be taken two or three times
a day, about half an hour before meals, or a
less quantity may be taken at all times. To
those who are afflicted with indigestion after
meals, these Bitters will prove invaluable, as
they very greatly increase the action of the
principal viscera, help them to perform their
functions, and enable the stomach to discharge
into the bowels whatever is offensive. This
indigestion is easily and speedily removed,
appetite restored, and the mouths of the ab
sorbent vessels being cleansed, nutrition is
facilitated, and strength of body and energy
of mind are the happy results. For farther
particulars of MOFFAT'S LIFE PILLS, and
PHCENIX BITTERS, apply at Mr. Moffat’s
office, No. 367 Broadway. New York,where the
Pills can be obtained for 25 cents, 50 cents, or
$1 per box; and the Bitters for $1 or $2 per
bottle. o“Numcrous certificates of the won
derful efficacy of both, may be there inspect
ed.
In some obstinate and complicated cases of
chronic and inflammatory Rheumatism, Liver
Complaints, Fever and Ague, Dyspepsia Palsy,
Piles, injuries from the use of mercury,quinine,
and other diseases of long standing, it may be
found necessary to take both the Life Pills
and the Phoenix Bitters, in the doses before
recommended.
N. B.—These Pills and the Bitters will get
all mercury out of the system infinitely faster
than the best preparations of Sarsaparilla, afid
arc a regain remedy for the rushing of blond
to the HWm, or all violent headaches, tic dou
lcureux,&.c. —All persons who are predisposed
to apoplexy, palsy, &c, should newt be with
out the Life Pills or the Bitters, for one dose
in time will save life. They equalize the cir
culation of the blood, draw all pressure from
the head, restore prespiration, and throw oft
e*pry impurity by the pores of the skin.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Persons using the Life Medicines, are ad
vised to take the Pills at night, in sufficient
qantities to operate two or three times on the
bowels in the course of the next day. Also
take a table spoonful of the Bitters half an
hour before each meal. For those of a delicate
or enfeebled constitution, half the quantity
may be sufficient.
CpFor further particulars of the above Med
icine see Moffat s Goon Samaritait, a copy
of which accompanies the Medicine. A copy
may also be had on application at the store of
DART, BARRETT & CO., Brunswick, Ga.,
who have the Medicine for sale.
* # * Prepared and sold by William B. Mof
fat, No. 367, Broadway, New-York. A liber
al deduction made to those who purchase to
sell again.
T)ct 25. Iv.
POETR V.
CALEDONIA.
BY JAMES HOGG.
Caledania! thou land of the mountain and rock,
Os the Ocean, the mist and the wind,
Thou land of the torrent, the pine and the oak,
Os the roebuck, the hart, and the hind;
Tho’ bare are thy cliffs, and tho' barren thy
glens,
Tho’ bleak tky dun Islands appear,
Yet kind are the hearts and undaunted thy
clans,
That roam on these mountains so drear.
Thou land of the bay, and the lieadly so steep;
Os the eagle that hovers on high,
O’er the still lake, where etch’d on its bosom
asleep,
Lie the mountain, the cloud and the sky.
Thou land of the valley, the moor, and the
dale,
Os the storm and the proud rolling wave;
Yes, thou art the land of fair liberty still
And the land of my forefather’s grave.
A foe from abroad, or a tyrant at home,
Could never thy ardour restrain;
The invincible bands of imperial Rome ;
Assay'd thy proud spirit in vain.
Firm seat of religion, of valor, of truth,
Os genious unshackled and free;
The muses have left all the vales of the south,
My loved Caledonia for thee. »
IISCELLAIVY.
[Translated for the Brunswick Advocate.]
THE CHEVALIER GLUCK ;
A RECOLLECTION OF THE YEAR # 1809.
(From the German of Hoffmann.)
In the latter part of Autumn, in Ber
lin, there arc usually a few fine days. ■
The sun shows his friendly face from
among the clouds, and soon dispels the
dampness of the warm air which blows
through the streets. Then may you see
a long line of people, a most rnotly as
semblage,—exquisites, citizens with their
wives and the dear little ones in their
Sunday clothes, priests, Jewesses, profes
sors, milliners, dancers, officers, &.C.,
walking on through the limetrees, to the
park. Every seat, within hearing of Claus
and Weber, is soon filled; the carrot
coffee steams, the exquisites light their
cigars, people talk, and dispute about
war and peace, about Madam Bethmann’s
shoes, (whether her latest pair was grey
or green,) about bad groschen, &c.; till
every other sound is drowned in that
of an air from Fanchon, in winch a harp
out of tune, a pair of discordant vio
lins, an asthmatic flute, and a fitful bas
soon, torment themselves and all who
listen. Close by the bannister, which
separates Weber’s enclosure from the
highway, there stands several little round
tables and garden-chairs ; here you can
breathe the free air, in spite of the com
ers and goers, and be at a safe distance
from the cacophonous clatter of that exe
crable orchestra; there I sit down, yield
ing myself up to the light play of my fan
cy, which brings before me intimate
forms, with which I converse about sci
ence, about art, about every thing that
man holds dearest, a more and more
rnotly crowd of* walkers passes on before
me, but nothing disturbs me; nothing
can drive away my fantastic society. On
|ly the cursed trio of a most miserable jig
! tears me from the world of dreams. The
j shrieking treble of the violins and flute,
and the bassoon’s snarling bass., alone
| meet my ear; they go up and down, al
most keeping together, in octaves, which
torture the ear; and involuntarily, as
I one would do if seized with a burnin'*
I 0
pain, I exclaim :
“What crazy music! those detestable
octaves!”'
A voice near me murmurs ;
“Oh cursed fate ! yet again an octave
hunter !”
I look up, and for the first time per-'
ceive, that, unremarked by me, a man
had seated himself at the same tabic, who
kept his eyes fixed upon me, and of whose
image my eyes have not since been able
to free themselves.
I never saw a head, or a form, which in
so short a time made so powerful an im
pression upon me. A gently curved nose
joined a broad, open brow, with remarka
ble elevations over the bushy, gray eye
l brows, under which the eyes blazed forth
with an almost wild, and youthful fire,
[(though the man\nftist have been more
than fifty years old.) His delicately
formed chin was singularly contrasted
with the closed mouth; and a sneering
smile, produced by the remarkable play of
the muscles in his sunken cheeks, seemed
totally repugnant to the deep, melancholy
gravity, which rested on his forehead.
A few gray locks lay behind his large,
projecting ears. Avery large fashionable
surtout covered his tall, spare form. As
my eyes fell upon the man, he looked
down, and continued the employment
which had been interrupted by my excla
mation. He emptied the snuff with evident
complacency, from several small papers,
into a large box which stood before him,
and moistened it with red wine which he
poured front a bottle. The music hhd
ceased; I felt the necessity of addressing
him.
“ I am glad that the music is silent,”
I said; “ it was intolerable.”
The old man threw a hasty glance
upon me and emptied the last paper.
“It would be better that they should
not play at all,” I continued ; “ are you
not of niy opinion ?”
“lam of no opinion,” he said; “you
are a musician and a connoiseur by pro
fession.”
“ You are mistaken ; I am neither. I!
learned, a long time ago, to play upon the [
harpsichord, and acquired a knowledge of:
thorough bass, as something essential to a j
complete education, and I was told, among
other things, that nothing produced a J
more disagreeable effect, than when the I
bass accompanied the treble in octaves. I
then took the assertion on the authority i
of others, and I have since found it con-i
stantly verified. u
“ Indeed ?” interrupted he, rising, and j
walking slowly and thoughtfully towards!
the musicians, while frequently, his eyes
turned upward, Ire struck his forehead
with the palm of his hand, as one wlio
wishes to recall something to his remem
brance. I saw him speak with the musi
cians, whom he treated with a command
ing dignity. He returned back, and hard
ly was he seated, when they began to
play the overture to Iphigenia in Aulis.
With eyes half closed, his arms crossed
and resting on the table, he listened to
the Antiante; gently moving the left foot,
he marked the commencement of the
voices; now he raised his head, threw a |
rapid glance around—his left hand, with !
the fingers spread, rested on the table, asj
if he were playing an accord on the piano;}
his right hand he raised up; beseemed an j
j opera director signifying to the orchestra
the commencement of the other tempo—
the right hand falls and the allegro be
gins! A burning redness spread over the
pale cheeks; the eyebrows contracted on
the wrinkled forehead, an inward fury
inflamed the wild glance with a fire, which
destroyed more and more the smile, still |
hovering over the half opened mouth.
Now he leans back; the eyebrows are j
raised, the play of the muscles on the
cheeksjreturns; the eyes sparkle ; a deep,
internal pain seems dissolved in the de
light which seizes on and convulsively
moves every fibre; —he draws his breath
deeply from the breast; round drops j
stand on his forehead; he makes a sign [
for the commencement o,f the Tutti ; and
other principal divisions; his right hand
continues to mark the time, while with
the left he takes out his handkerchief and
passes it over his face.—Thus he enliven
|ed with flesh and color, the skeleton of
j the overture, which was given by that pair
of violins. I heard the soft, melting,
j plaintive strain with which the flute pro
j ceeds, when the storm of the violins and
i of the base instruments has spent its rage,
j and the thunder of the kettledrums is
| silent, I heard gently striking in the tones
of the violiricello, and of the bassoon,
which fill the heart with an inexpressible
I sadness ; the tutti returns again ; like a
J giant, tall and stately, the unison marches
j on; the mournful wail dies under its
crushing tread.
The overture was at an end; the man
let fall both his arms, and sat there with
closed eyes, like one who has been de
bilitated by violent exertion. His bottle ,
was empty. I tilled his glass with Burgun-
dy, which I had ordered in the mean
time. He sighed deeply, and appeared to
be awaking out of a dream. I urged him
to drink ; lie did it without ceremony, and
as he emptied the full glass at a single
draught, he exclaimed; “I am content
with their performance; the orchestra has
done well!”
l “ And yet,” I replied, “ yet they gave
us only weak outlines of a masterpiece
designed with living colors.”
“Do I judge correctly ?—You do not
belong to Berlin!”
“You are right; I reside here only
occasionally.”
“ The Burgundy is good ; but it is
growing cold.”
“ Then let us go to, the saloon, and
there finish the bottle.”
“An excellent proposition.—l do not
know you; therefore you are also unac
quainted with me. We will not ask each
other’s names; names are sometimes incon
venient. I drink Burgundy ; it costs me
nothing; we are on good terms with one
another—and so far, good.”
He said all this with good tempered
cordiality—we had gone into the saloon—
he threw open his surtout, and as he
seated himself, I was surprised to see that
he .'Wore under it, an embroidered waist
coat of a large figure, and a very small
silvcr-hilted sword. He then carefully
buttoned up his coat again.
“ Why did you ask me, whether I were
a Berliner?” I began.
“ Because in that case I should have
been under the necessity of leaving you.”
“ That sounds enigmatically.” t
“ Not in the least, when I tell you, that
I well, that I am a composer.”
“Still I cannot guess your meaning.”
“Then excuse the exclamation which I
made a little while ago; for I see, that
you are utterly unable to comprehend
Berlin and Berlin people.”
He rose and walked rapidly a few times
up and down ; then walked to the win
dow and sang, in a hardly audible voice,
the chorus of the priestesses in the Iphi
genia in Tauris; while now and then, at
the commencement of the Tutti, he
knocked on the window pane. I remark
ed with astonishment, that he executed
certain variations of the airs, which were
striking from their newness and power,
lie had ceased, and returned again to his
seat. Wholly taken up with the man’s
singular behaviour, and the fantastic ec
centricities of a remarkable musical tal
ent, I was silent. After awhile he began:
“ Have you never composed ?”
“Yes; I have made some attempts in
the art; but I found that every thing,
which, as I thought, I had written in mo
ments of inspiration, afterwards seemed
flat and stupid—and I discontinued it.”
“You have done wrong; for the very
fact, that you threw away some attempts,
is no mean proof of your talent. One
learns music when a boy, because papa
and mamma will have it so; and then
there’s a great jingling and fiddling ; but
the mind becomes insensibly more sus
ceptible to melody. Perhaps the half
forgotten Thema of a song, which one
was at some time used to sing, was the
first peculiar thought; and this embryo,
laboriously nourished by foreign powers,
increased to a which consumed
every thing about it, and converted it in
to its own marrow and blood! Ah, how
is it possible even to point at the thousand
different means by which one arrives at
the power of composing? It is a broad
highway, where every body tumbles about
and shouts and cries, ‘We are consecrat
ed; we are at the goal!’ We arrive at
the kingdom of dreams through the ivory
gate; few see the gate, still fewer pass
through! Here all appears strange. —
Mad forms hover this way and that, but
they have character, one more than anoth
er. They do not suffer themselves to be
seen on the highway; they are only to be
found behind the ivory gate. It is diffi
cult to come out of this kingdom; as be
fore the castle of the magiciau, monsters
stop the way;— there is a whirling—a turn
ing—many dream out the dream in the
realm of dreams; —they dissolve in the
dream—they no longer cast any shadow,
else the shadow would make them aware
.*>■’
[TERMS.....** IN ADVANCE.
[of the light, which passes through (Iris
realm; but only a few, awaken^. from
the dream, go on and walk tWoegh the
realm of dreams—they come to the truth;
that is the most exalted moment; that con
tact with the eternal, inexpressible ! Look
at the sun; it is the chord from which the
harmonies} like stars, shoot down and spin
around you with threads of fire. You lie
these torpid in the fire, till the spirit soars
upward to the sun.”
At these words he sprung up, and rais
ed, upwards his eyes and his hand. Then
he seated himself, and drank off the glass
which stood filled for him. A silence
ensued, which I refrained from breaking,
in order not to force the extraordinary
man from his train of thought. At last
he continued, with more composure:
“While I was in thekingdotnof dreams,
I was tortured with a thousand pains and
agonies. It was night, and I was terrified
at the grinning faces of monsters, which
rushed upon me, and now plunged me into
the abyss of the sea, now raised me higli
into the air. Then beams of light shok
through the darkness, and these beams of
light became musical strains, which en
compassed me with enrapturing sweetness.
I awaked from my suffering, and beheld a
large, bright eye, which looked upon an
organ, and as it looked, strains issued
forth, and beamed, and combined in new
accords, such as Iliad never imagined.—
Melodies streamed up and down, and I
swam iu this stream, and was about to
sink, and then the tye looked on tne, and
held me up above the dashing waves.—
Again it became night; then two colos
susses in resplendent armour came upon
me, Tonic and Dominant; they tore me
away, but the eye smiled, as it would say
T know what fills thy bosom with regret;
the soft, gentle youth, Terzo, will join the
Colossusses, thou will hear his soft voice,
sec me again, and my melodies again be
thine.’ ”
He ceased.
“And you saw the eye again?”
“Yes, I saw it again! Whole years long
I sighed in the kingdom of dreams; there,
yes there, I sat in a glorious valley, and
listened to the flowers as they sang to
each other. A sunflower alone was silent,
and sorrowfully bent its closed cnlixto the
earth. Invisible bands drew me to it;—
it raised its head; —its calix opened, and
from it the rye beamed towards me. Now
strains of melody passed, like beams of
light, from my head to the flower, which
eagerly drew them in. l]he leaves of the
sunflower grew larger and latter; flames
streamed forth from them; they enclosed
ine; the eye had disappeared, and I was
in the calix.’’
As he spoke these last words he sprang
up, and hastened with rapid and youthful
steps to the apartment without. I waited
in vain for his return; I therefore resolved
to return to the city.
I had nearly reached the Brandenburg
gate, when I saw in the dusk, a tall figure
walk away, and,immediately recognized
my Incomprehensible. I addressed him:
“Why did you leave me in such haste?”
“It was growing too warm, and the jEu
plwn began to sound.”
“I do not understaad yon.”
“So much the better.”
“So much the worse, for I should bo
' very giau to understand you.**
“Do you then hear nothingP'
“No.”
t r- :
“It is over! Let us go. lam not gen
erally fond of company; but ——-yfou do
not compose; —you are no BerKest.”
“I cannot imagine wbj you lwve this
prejudice against the Berliners? Here,
where the art is valued, and practised to
a great extent/ I should suppose, that a
man possessed, like you, W the spirit of
an artist, must be happy* 11
“You are mistaken! For my torment
I ana condemned, like a deported spirit,
to Wander Here in desolate pjvtce.”
“In desolate space, here, in
“Yes, all is desolate about me, fer no
congenial spirit advances to meet me.—
I stand alone.”
“But the artists! the composers!”
‘ Away with them! They scrawl and
scrawl, —refine away every thing to the
extremity of refinement; rummage through