tache ot the King's Court a man of means, of intellect LITTLE 

 and many strong and beautiful virtues. After the mar- JOURNEYS 

 riage he became known as Baron von Humboldt, and 

 as to just how he succeeded to the noble title let us 

 not be curious undoubtedly his wife bestowed it on 

 him, good and generous woman that she was. 

 They lived in the romantic Castle Tegel, near Berlin, 

 and separated from the city by a park, where the dark 

 pines still tower aloft and murmur their secrets to the 

 night breeze. Tegel is a most beautiful place ; it was 

 first a hunting-lodge occupied by Frederick the Great. 

 It is shut out from the world by its high stone walls, 

 and in its dim, dense woods, one might easily imagine 

 he was far indeed from the madding crowd. 

 Here there were two sons born to the Baron and 

 Baroness two years apart. One of these sons sleeps 

 now beneath the turret where he first saw the light, 

 and from which he made others see the light as long 

 as he lived. 



In Goethe's "Faust" is an allusion to a mysterious 

 legend that had its rise in storied Tegel. On May 18th, 

 1778, Goethe came here, walking over from Berlin, 

 dined, and walked on to Potsdam. But before he left 

 he saw two beautiful boys, aged eight and ten, playing 

 beneath the spreading Tegel trees. The boys remem- 

 bered the event and wrote of it in their journal, men- 

 tioning the kindly pats on their heads and the prophecy 

 that they would grow up and be great men. 

 Goethe was always patting boys on the head and say- 

 ing graceful things, and it is doubtful whether his 



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