"Let us make haste to get away from here," he said. "I feel as if the ground were burning under my feet."
"I am ready," said the doctor. "If you had followed my advice you would have left here long ago, and if you follow my advice now, you will never return here. Our journey will give you back to yourself. You have lost much, but nothing that cannot be regained. You have despised reason and science, man's highest power, and yet you can never hope for happiness except by such help, for,--you recollect the words of your favorite poet:
'----what Amor has taken from us
Apollo only can restore:
Peace, happiness, and harmony,
And pure and powerful aspirations--'
Come--let the dead bury the dead! You must begin a new life now!"
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1]: "Illustrirte Zeitung," Leipzig, 9th February, 1867. "Bibliothek der deutchen Classiker." Hildburghausen. Band xxix, p. 683.
[Footnote 2]: Curtis's "Nile Notes of a Howadji," 1857; Emerson's "English Traits," 1857; a volume of American Poems, 1859; sec. ed., 1865: Roscoe's "Lorenzo di Medici," 1859, etc.
[Footnote 3]: Since the above was in type we have become acquainted with some charming "Novellen" by Spielhagen, but lately published, of which, however, we cannot now speak. (His later works are: "The Fair American Ladies," "Hans and Grete," "The Village Coquette;" his latest, and perhaps most remarkable work, "Hammer and Anvil," has just been completed. He also lately published two volumes of "Critical Essays," which are highly praised by the German reviewers. Two of the essays are devoted to careful and appreciative criticisms of the American poets Bryant and Poe.)
[Footnote 4]: "Die von Hohenstein is by some considered to be superior to Problematic Characters; not so romantic and poetic, but equally rich in psychological truth, and more concentrated in form, more crystallized."