he second edition of _Die Welt als Wille
und Vorstellung_ appeared in 1844, and was received with growing
appreciation. Hitherto he had been chiefly known in Frankfort as the son
of the celebrated Johanna Schopenhauer; now he came to have a following
which, if at first small in numbers, were sufficiently enthusiastic, and
proved, indeed, so far as his reputation was concerned, helpful. Artists
painted his portrait; a bust of him was made by Elizabeth Ney. In the
April number of the _Westminster Review_ for 1853 John Oxenford, in an
article entitled "Iconoclasm in German Philosophy," heralded in England
his recognition as a writer and thinker; three years later Saint-Rene
Taillandier, in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_, did a similar service for
him in France. One of his most enthusiastic admirers was Richard Wagner,
who in 1854 sent him a copy of his _Der Ring der Nibelungen_, with the
inscription "In admiration and gratitude." The Philosophical Faculty of
the University of Leipzic offered a prize for an exposition and
criticism of his philosophical system. Two Frenchmen, M. Foucher de
Careil and M. Challemel Lacour, who visited Schopenhauer during his last
days, have given an account of their impressions of the interview, the
latter in an article entitled, "Un Bouddhiste Contemporain en
Allemagne," which appeared in the _Revue des Deux Mondes_ for March
15th, 1870. M. Foucher de Careil gives a charming picture of him:--

"Quand je le vis, pour la premiere fois, en 1859, a la table de
l'hotel d'Angleterre, a Francfort, c'etait deja un vieillard, a
l'oeil d'un bleu vif et limpide, a la levre mince et legerement
sarcastique, autour de laquelle errait un fin sourire, et dont le
vaste front, estompe de deux touffes de cheveux blancs sur les
cotes, relevait d'un cachet de noblesse et de distinction la
physionomie petillante d'esprit et de malice. Les habits, son jabot
de dentelle, sa cravate blanche rappelaient un vieillard de la fin
du regne de Louis XV; ses manieres etaient celles d'un homme de
bonne compagnie. Habituellement reserve et d'un naturel craintif
jusqu'a la mefiance, il ne se livrait qu'avec ses intimes ou les
etrangers de passage a Francfort. Ses mouvements etaient vifs et
devenaient d'une petulance extraordinaire dans la conversation; il
fuyait les discussions et les vains combats de paroles, mais c'etait
pour mieux jouir du charme d'une causerie intime.