302 Humboldt's Letters. 



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HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEtf. 



BERLIN, July IMh, 1854. 



SUCH a rough " Hind Pomeranian !"* direct answer, 

 dear friend, you could certainly not expect from me ! 

 I have no idea of the question about the animation of 

 pinewood at the King's table, where everybody believes 

 in it as in the Persian host seen in the air at the 

 Eichsfeld. The " drama" of the " Kreuz Zeitung," like 

 everything emanating from this bad party, sick with 

 mental poverty, bears the stamp of cowardly malice ! 

 You are not to be pitied, for you possess a treasure in 

 the power of animating recollections of the great period 

 of 1813. I have always kept at a respectful distance 

 from the Revue des Deux Mondes, which is edited with 

 spirit and address. Two parties may hate the same 

 thing without hating it from the same motives. The 

 present Liberals there think themselves justified in 

 barking, but not biting, after the fashion of the Berlin 



* The province of Pomerania is divided into " Vorpommern" 

 Fore Pomerania, and " Hinterpommern" Hind Pomerania; i. e. 

 Pomerania before and behind the Oder. Tr. 



