dle and he
would have his water and the house.

"O Kabel, my Kabel!" continued Glanz, almost weeping for joy at the
prospect of the approaching tears of sorrow. "When once beside your
loving heart covered with earth my heart too shall mol--"

"I believe, honored gentlemen," said Flachs mournfully, arising and
looking around, his eyes brimming over, "I am weeping." After which he
sat down again and let them flow more cheerfully; he had feathered his
nest. Under the eyes of the other heirs he had snatched away the
prize-house from Glanz, who now extremely regretted his exertions,
since he had quite uselessly talked away half of his appetite. The
emotion of Flachs was placed on record and the house in Dog Street was
adjudged to him for good and all. The Burgomaster was heartily glad to
see the poor devil get it. It was the first time in the principality
of Haslau that the tears of a school-master and teacher-of-the-church
had been metamorphosed, not like those of the Heliades into light
amber, which incased an insect, but like those of the goddess Freya,
into gold. Glanz congratulated Flachs, and gayly drew his attention to
the fact that perhaps he, Glanz, had helped to move him. The rest drew
aside, by their separation accentuating their position on the dry road
from that of Flachs on the wet; all, however, remained intent upon the
rest of the will.

Then the reading of it was continued.

_WILHELM VON HUMBOLDT_

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SCHILLER AND THE PROCESS OF HIS INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

From the _Introduction to the Correspondence of Schiller and
W. von Humboldt_ (1830)

TRANSLATED BY FRANCES H. KING

Schiller's poetic genius showed itself in his very first productions.
In spite of all their defects in form, in spite of many things which
to the mature artist seemed absolutely crude, _The Robbers_ and
_Fiesko_ gave evidence of remarkable inherent power. His genius
later betrayed itself in the longing for poetry, as for the native
atmosphere of his spirit, which longing constantly breaks out in his
varied philosophical and historical labors and is often hinted at in
his letters to me. It finally revealed itself in virile power and
refined purity in those dramas which will long remain the pride and
the renown of the German stage.

This poetic genius, however, is most closely wedded, in all its height
and depth, to thought; it manifests itself, in fact, in an
intellectuality which b