The Foreign Quarterly Review Vol 32

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230386331
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Foreign Quarterly Review Volume 32 written by Anonymous and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1844 edition. Excerpt: ...have animated the learned doctor with inspirations of a less serious character than those which heretofore prompted his labours. ' Gothe's Studentenjahre' (Gothe's Student Years), is the title of a novel recently published at Leipsic, where it has excited a considerable deal of interest. The author, who is understood to be a man of rank, has drawn an admirable portrait of Gothe during the years of his college life; and has introduced into the romance some hitherto unpublished correspondence between the great poet, and other literary characters of his time. The university of Heidelberg is likely to sustain a great loss by the removal of Bischotf', the professor of Physiology, who has been called to Giessen, where the government proposes to found a physiological institute. Bischoff is a pupil of Johann MUller; and his lectures, in which deep learning and research are combined with clearness of explanation, have long been the pride of the university of Heidelberg. Friedrich Kind, a novel-writer and dramatist of considerable reputation in Germany, and the author of the libretto of Weber's ' Freischiitz, ' died at Dresden, on the evening of the 25th of June. It is mentioned as somewhat curious, that the ' Freischiitz' was performed at the Dresden theatre, on the night when its author breathed his last. In the year 1817, Kind founded the ' Abendzetung, ' conjointly with Theodore Hell. He was born at Leipsic, on the 4th of March, 1786. A letter from Munich mentions that the superb frescoes which adorned the royal residence of that capital, have been scratched by some sharp pointed instrument in such a manner as to be totally destroyed. The active exertions of the police have uot yet succeeded in discovering the perpetrator of this atrocious act,