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Ludwig Tieck , the last of the illustrious hand , ( if we except A . W . ScHiiEGKL , ) which made German literature a power and a glory , is dead . He lived to the great age of 80 . Goethe , it will be remembered , lived even beyond , that age , and in his eighty-second year was busy with those great biological speculations which are now beginning to attract serious attention in England . Tieck ' s age is significant . A man of delicate and deformed organization , leading a bookish secluded life , the hard-working life of a man of letters , he nevertheless reached an age rare among hardy active men ; thus proving that it is not labour so much as anxiety which destroys literary men .
Tieck is a great name in England , as well as in Germany . He is endeared to us by his translation of Shakspeare , and his ingenious criticisms on all our Elizabethan dramatists ;» by his residence in England which made him acquainted with our stage , and its Kembl . es , Kean , Macready and others ; by his charming fairy tales , andjastly by the uniform courtesy showed to our countrymen who were fortunate enough to see him in Dresden or Berlin . On our first introduction to German Literature we all learn to read and admire something of Tieck , and learn to hear his name with a sort of reverence . If , in after years , we begin to look more closely into the works and estimate his talent more calmly , the old influence
is never altogether shaken off , and we still think with interest of one who once greatly interested . Yet , considered intrinsically , Tieck was a talent , hot a genius . He seems to us a German Southey . The same devotion to literature , the same mild elegance of form , the same learning , various and exhaustive , the same love of Spanish and Elizabethan Literature , ; the same love of the fantastic without a high creative fancy , the same union of criticism and poetry . He will not live . His works will remain on library shelves ; his name will have its inscription on the tablets of the German Pantheon ; but his writings will not live among the living thoughts of the next generation . ¦ "
' Besides his translations from English and Spanish , Tieck also employed his " interpreting talent" in Readings , " which formed' one of the delights of Dresden and Berlin . To hear Tieck read a tragedyof Shakspeare , or a comedy of Molieke , giving to each person his individuality of . voice , accent , and manner , was a rare treat . In England or America he would have made a fortune by it , for neither Fann y Kemble nor Miss Glyn could have borne comparison with the little humpbacked poet . '
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We recently noticed a discovery made by M . Chatin of the influence of iodine in water as a preventive of goitre . Our views ; seem to have been misunderstood in the application of . thjrt ; discovery . We vp \\ . first insert the very interesting note sent us from Brussels by Mr . F . O . Ward , the everready champion of the Sanitary Cause . ' . : .: "I observe you have giveti currency to M . Chatin ' s theory on the cause of eoitre and cretinism . I shall have to answer M . Chatin so soon as I have his original paper ( for which I . have written to Paris ) before me . ' Meanwhile , I would just meijji ' pn to you that at Farnham , where the water is so excessively pure , that Mr . » Way could scarcely analyze it : ( the quantities of foreign matter falling within , the range of Errors of' manipulation ) , cretinism is unknown , : whiles goitre ( concerning which I made careful '
researches in the books of . the . district registrar for twenty , or' thirty years back ) is as rare and exceptional a complaint as elsewhere' in ^ Englaiul , and invariably confined to the poorest classes . The pure pck ^ wjitar of Aberdeen , the rain-drainage of primitive hills , at ; Glasgow ^ P ^ a ^^^ SJg |( jj ^ i * t , and ; ma . ny . other English' towns , is not found . to promote ) dfevPHRXnttF goitre : op . the ; contrary , . its use has greatly improved the public health . ' ; ' . " Tliefproperties of iodine , as a diluent , to hinder or dissolve away accumulations of humours in the glands , are well understood . '" - But to drink earthy solutions for the sake of getting the one-hundredth of a milligramme per litre ( i . e ., one part in a hundred million parts ) of iodine , which is the quantity in'the water of the Salente , according to Chatin , seems to
me very-like the Chinese plan of burning down a house to obtain roast pig . ' " BousjNOAULT argues that lime in water is necessary to nourish the bones . You will sec our reply to that at page ' - ' 36 of my new pamphlet , Which will reach you 'b y next post . "' The reply with respect to iodine is srniilur . - It - is abundantly ' ifca easily obtainable in common marine salt , in saty-water fijsh ,. ami generally in all salt-water productions . And where- ' eycr a deficiency of iodige may from accidental local circumstances occur in the food of the populnflon , ( as , for instance , where rock : salt , deficient in
this substance , / isuse < l , ) . the . proper course is—not to condemn the population to drink wal ^ clittrgdtl with earthy impurities for the sake of a casual one hundred tmStAS ^\ 6 f iodine—but to adopt the more direct and cmnmbn-sensc ' pl&mpf furnishing iodine in the shape of sea-salt fish , &c , to the healthy , anJjj ^ . of iodide of potassium and other such medicines to those already diseased . *< , "As your prOpajBrtjjpn of M . Chatin'h doctrine in England may tend to ( check tthe mb * enj ^ fc > in favour of ^ pure water , and strengthen the hands of ^ ttie * f L > efenderadf ' theF ; lth , ' I ahajl be much , obliged by your publishing t | fc ^ aityMiiMyia / pferfect note , that your readers may bo induced to ' hold a
suspended opinion until they have before them in a more complete form the views of the English Sanitary Reformers on the point in question . " Our reply is simple . Never have we been among the " Defenders of the Filth , " nor was our purpose in noticing the Frenchman ' s discovery a polemical purpose . The discovery was important , and thereby claimed our notice ; it pointed also , as we stated , to the necessity of extreme circumspection on the part of Sanitary Philosophers , who , in dealing with a thing at once so complex and so delicate as a human organism , should be certain that to " purify" always means to " improve . " It is clear that in the case we mentioned " pure water" was a curse . Mr . Ward tells us that
they ought to have adopted other means besides purifying the water ; they should have given iodine or iodide of potassium ; but what they should have done , they left undone , —a condition , we fear , to which most doctoral treatments are liable j and hence their solicitous care- about " pure" water turned out to be , owing to the want of due circumspection ; more injurious than a supine adherence to existing " impurity . " This , and this ' only , was our meaning in the application . - > We wanted it to act as a warning , and our purpose has been attained , for it has' already alarmed the vigilant F . O . Ward . , .
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i Arnold Ruge , a name dear to patriots , and respected by students of German thought , delivered a lecture , ' last week , at the Brighton Literary and Scientific-Society , on The German Literature of the last Century , wherein he unfolded the history of opinion as determining and manifested in the progressive epochs of Literature . He is about to repeat'the lecture in London , when we may be able to speak more definitely on its merits . Strange and yet cheering sight to see the exiles thus nobly employing their forced leisure . Alexandre Thomas on one side , and Arnold Ruge on the other ; Kinkel . here , and Louis Blanc there , each in his own way forwarding the cause he has at heart !
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This is magazine week . First , let us mention the appearance of a new serial , The National Miscellany , published by Parker , of Oxford . It is handsomely printed , legible on railways , where other magazines are mostly impossible , and . will , perhaps , be successful in the circles to which its ambition points ; viz . / " high-church" families , wherein mild respectability , serene untroubled thought , and agreeable language , represent the whole meaning and function of Literature . The articles are various , but seem written by only two contributors .
Fraser , always admirable , varied , and entertaining , is even more so than usual this month . A searching review of Lord Grey ' s Colonial Administration betrays the hand of one terribly familiar with most of the details , open and concealed , of that mischievous administration ; a first-rate article on Photography , equally agreeable and scientific , should be passed over by no reader ; a fine historical sketch , Kirkaldy of Grange : and our old friend , the Ichthyological scholar , who this month writes of fish dealers and fish dressers , will also entrap even the " skipping" reader . But perhaps the most amusing article is that on the Miseries and Manners of the French i Clergy , full of curious details , over which the British Parson will chuckle hugely .
Blackwood has an admirable paper on the Circulation of Matter , wherein some of the * * revelations of science are set forth in a popular exposition intelligible tb all , and the old orthodox notion of " resurrection of the flesh" is pitilessly crushed by weight of evidence ; and then , of course , it appears that orthodoxy never understood her own texts when she taught such a notion ! Spiritual Manifestations are treated in the bantering style , familiar to all readers of Blaakwood j and we pause to remark on the extraordinary silence preserved on this subject by the newspapers ; none , we believe , except the Leader , having ventured to bestow space on this most extraordinary of Popular Delusions ! The Magazines are less behind hand .
Apropos of the number of Blackwood before us , we must note a piece of editorial blundering quite remarkable . Julhs Sandeau , n writer of distinction and celebrity in France , writes a novel , from which , subsequently , a comedy is made , Mademoiselle de la Seigliere , and played at the St . James's Theatre , as well as at the Theatre Francois . An English adaptation of this comedy . appears at the Ilaymarkct Theatre , and there , under the title of the Man of Law , has a long run . We believe , also , that the original novel has been translated . Yet a contributor to Blackwood , ignoring or ignorant of this notoriety , actually tells us at some length the whole story once more , under the title of A Tale from the French Stage !
I Bentley ' s Miscellany is many , many degrees better this month . Smokers will be interested in a statistical reflective article , The Weed , containing much good sense as well as figures . ' The account of the < lucl between D'Esterre an \ ll Oy Connell is' a graphic and very interesting chapter of contemporary , history ; while a glimpse into history more remote will attract even more readers , t o the Account of the Trial of the Duchess of Kingston j it is said to ; be from an original MS ., and we have no evidence to disprove the assertion , » nd j only , the writer ' s . anonymous assertion to guarantee it —an asscrti 6 n acceptable enough if meant to be seriously accepted , but of course often employed without . such meaning . The Reviews next week . ' . •• - >*•
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¦ Professor Aytoiin , the Editor of Blackwood , and author of I jays of the Scotch Cavaliers , has joined the lecturers , and after great success in Edinburgh , has come to court the Fashion and the Literature of London . The first of a series of six lectures on Poetry and Dramatic Literature , wua delivered
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Critics are not the legislators , but the judges and police of literature . They do not make laws—tthey interpret and try to enforce them . —Edinburgh Review . f . " . _ r ' ¦ " ¦
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May . 7 ; 1853 ;] THE LE ADER . ' 451
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1853, page 451, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1985/page/19/
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