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in his prohibited "Moritz "* but what the Fool says 

 of the people, p. 40, " One should throw it a couple 

 of scraps, and then it will creep back again wagging 

 its tail to its cold kennel ;" and, p. 53, the poetically 

 beautiful verses, "I conjure you, princes of the future/' 

 one could understand the immense sensation created at 

 the present time by that wonderful piece in which Moritz 

 pushes all his friends into the water, in order to enjoy 

 the pleasure of fishing them out, dead or alive, or at 

 any rate so thoroughly ducked that they all catch cold. 

 Read, my dear friend, the manuscript, but return it to 

 me to-morrow (Tuesday) by two o'clock. The steps I 

 am taking will, I am sure, be fruitless. By putting 

 it on the stage some money might be obtained for those 

 who suffered from the inundations ; there the police 

 would act as a hydraulic, or even a drying machine. 



Yours, 

 Monday. A. HT. 



XCI. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, Sept. 6th, 1844. 



Like you, my dear friend, I can understand that the 

 address f must have produced a very general commotion 

 in " our North," as under the sluggish Pole. He is 

 successful in the use of figurative language, in which 

 some of the images he brings before you are no doubt 

 not new, yet we cannot help remarking a certain deli- 

 cacy of expression and a soul for harmony. There is, 



rary history at, Berlin, in 1846. He is now Professor Extraordinary of the 

 History of Literature, at Halle, which post he obtained in 1849. TK. 



* " Moritz von Sachsen (Maurice of Saxony)," a tragedy in five acts. TR. 



t Delivered by the King. TR. 



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