To sneering insolence of menial taunts! "That strangers riot on your bounty, whilst Carlos, your son, may supplicate in vain.” My King's displeasure, and prefer my suit I must away from Spain. To linger here Is to draw breath beneath the headsman's axe: The air lies heavy on me in Madrid. Like murder on guilty soul - a change, An instant change of clime alone can cure me. KING. Invalids, like thee, my son, need to be tended close And ever watched by the physician's eye. Thou stay'st in Spain the Duke will go to Flanders. The late Wilhelm Lindenschmit, who designed "Schiller at Weimar," was a painter of history, and professor at the Royal Academy of Munich. His most notable productions are several pictures illustrative of the life of Luther, one of which, "Luther and the Reformers at Marburg, 1529," was formerly in the Powers collection at Rochester, N. Y. The Leipsic Museum owns his "Ulrich Von Hutten at Viterbo in 1516, fighting with five Frenchmen who had jeered at the Emperor Maximilian." Lindenschmit died in 1895. GOETHE. IN the autumn of 1808, Napoleon and Alexander I. met at Erfurt. The Kings of Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Westphalia, and their queens, with many other princes and dignitaries, added to the magnificence of the scene, but a still higher lustre was imparted by the presence of Germany's greatest scholars and men of letters. Among them was Wieland, the "German Voltaire," then an old man of seventy-five,. with whom Napoleon held a long conversation upon literature, history, and philosophy. Amid other queries, the emperor asked the author of "Oberon" his stock question, "Which has been the happiest age of humanity?' and was pleased when the aged poet said that it was impossible to give a reply, because "good and evil, virtue and vice, continually alternate; philosophy must emphasise the good and make the evil tolerable." But the victor of Austerlitz talked with a greater than Wieland during his stay at Erfurt. Goethe, then in his sixtieth year, visited Napoleon, at the request of the latter. At that time, and long afterward, the poet considered the emperor not only the greatest power, but the greatest idealist, in the world. Twenty years later, Goethe said to Ecker |