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ladies alone continue by their superior 

 talents, to confer literary distinction on 

 Weimar, and as their names are well 

 known some account of them may be 

 interesting, 



MADAME D'AHLEFELD of WEIMAR. 



Charlotte de Scebach was born at 

 Weimar of an antient equestrian fa- 

 mily. Livin<i in a town wheie every 

 thing was literary, and at a period, 

 when tJie universal sensation produced 

 by " the soriows of Werther" (satiri- 

 cally called the Werther- fever) was 

 still at the highest, no wonder that a 

 child should imbibe a taste for litera- 

 ture, and that this taste should incline 

 to sentimentality. She produced by 

 stealth her first novel '• Love and Sepa- 

 ration," and having sent it to a book- 

 seller, it returned in print to Weimar 

 among the novelties of the day. This 

 production being read in a circle, the 

 secret authoress, seeing the eftect of her 

 imagination not only on her young 

 companions, but on the maturer part 

 of the audience, burst into a lit of 

 laughter ; and being accused of unfeel- 

 ingness by her mother, confessed her 

 transgression in sending her work to 

 the press without consulting her go- 

 verness. Of her novels, " Mary Mil- 

 ler," which is of the most affecting 

 simplicity, has circulated the most. 

 This huiy is married to the Baron 

 d'Ahlefeld, a rich land-holder in Sles- 

 wic, and usually resides at Kiel. 



MADAME D-HEIjWIG WIEMAR. 



Amelia d'Inihoif of an antient pa- 

 trician family of the free imperial city 

 of Nurenberg, was maid of honor at 

 Weimar, and at an epoch, when 

 like the court of the antient counts 

 of Provence, the court of Wei^iar 

 united all that were dignified by 

 philosophy and letters, or distinguished 

 by birth. Here she received from some 

 amiable troubadour, the title of the 

 eleventh muse ; Saj)pho in her time 

 having been classed as the tenth. In 

 her nineteenth year she published " the 

 Sisters of Leslos," a poem in German 

 hexameters, which has gone through 

 .several legitimate and surreptitious edi- 

 tions. In 1806, she married the Swedish 

 feueral of artillery, de Helwig, who 

 as since entcied the Prussian ser- 

 ( vice. She resides either at Weimar or 

 Berlin, in connexion with all the lite- 

 rati of these philosophic capitals, and 

 her latter productions still enjoy the 

 favour of the public. 



MADAME DE WOLZoGEN q/ WEIMAU. 

 Caroline dc Langefeld, daughter of 

 Monthly Mag. No. 350. 



one of the first officers of the court of 

 llilburghausen, and widow of the Ba- 

 ron de Wolzogen, minister of state to 

 the Duke of Weimar and his envoy at 

 the court of Russia, is the authoress of 

 " Agnes de Lillien," which at first ap- 

 peared in the Horen, a periodical pub- 

 lication of Schiller. This novel has 

 been frequently republished and trans- 

 lated into other languages. Her hus- 

 band was a statesman equally disliu- 

 guished for his talents and patriotism, 

 and who, during the troubles that after 

 the battle of Jena, involved all Saxony, 

 rendered the countiy of Weimar, the 

 most essential services ; since his death, 

 Madame de Wolzogen has published 

 several literary trifles. The delicacy 

 of her sentiments in these, correspond 

 with the amenity of her style, but these 

 are mere trifles from a woman whose 

 profound genius, whose philosophic 

 turn of mind, rendered her at home 

 the worthy associate of a husband so 

 superior, and the friend of Schiller 

 and of Goethe, and when abroad on her 

 travels procured her the friendship of 

 Madame de Slael, and the considera- 

 tion of the first literary and scientific 

 characters at Paris. L. 



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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine 



SIR, 



IT is supposed that wheat may be pre- 

 served for seasons of scarcity by 

 kiln drying it and then putting it in 

 cubical cases of earthenware, glazed 

 on the out-side, and filled full as pos- 

 sible, to be covered by a piece of the 

 same ware made to fit close, and that se- 

 cured with a mixture of pitch, tar, and 

 hempen cloth, till the whole be made- 

 air tight. A case of this kind might 

 be made which would hold either four 

 bushels or a quarter of wheat. If siu'h 

 cases full of corn were placed in ca- 

 verns, catacombs, or vaults of some 

 depth, and well enclosed in a dry soil 

 or rock in such a manner as to secure 

 a uniform temperature, they would 

 most likely continue free from fermen- 

 tation and insects, and preserve the 

 corn in full perfection for human food 

 during any reasonable number of years. 

 Potters are more in the habit of 

 making their ware circular, as in jars, 

 and such ves els would preserve corn 

 equally well as cubical shapes, but tlie 

 latter would make more of tiie space for 

 holding them. 1 1 is supposed any large 

 cavern or vault would hold twice as 

 much in cubical vessels as the same 

 place could do iujars. 



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