affection, and to leave all beings to produce their effects on him according to their respective natures. Such is the mystic sort of language in which he, like most of his brother critics of Germany, thinks proper to describe his mental emotions. Causes more matter-of-fact may be found in his having become acquainted with people whose habits and manners he has portrayed in his romance. Of these Werther himself (which was once doubted) is only the representative of a young gentleman of the unromantic name of Jerusalem, whom he describes as middle-sized, oval-faced, blue eyed and fair-haired, dressed in a blue frock, yellow leather waistcoat, and boots with brown tops. Young Jerusalem had fallen in love with his friend's wife, and blew his brains out in due course of time. Charlotte was every thing that we find her in the Sorrows of Werther, as was Albert also; and Goethe's practice of holding imaginary conversations in solitude, in which he made his friends fancied interlocutors, gave him a facility of combining these characters together in the situations he has so eloquently described. The work made a great sensation in Germany, and the author became at once popular. Ladies vied with one another as to who was the original Charlotte-a circumstance not a little amusing to Goëthe ; and critics reviewed it, as critics will do ; and wits, as wits will do, parodied and burlesqued it. In this country we all know what a noise it made, and what serious alarms it excited. O curas hominum! We are too fond of alarming ourselves. The robust and manly intellect of Englishmen is not made of such milk-and-water stuff that we need fear any danger from excess of romantic sensibility; and as to our religion or morals being hurt by a tale, which besides was not intended to do either, why we look upon it to be a most uncalled-for libel on both. But among us every generation of literature as well as politics must have its bugbear to frighten it.

Goethe now mixed with the literati of Germany, with whom he had taken a high rank. He sketches the characters of several of the most distinguished, in a highly vivacious style, and continues the details of his adventures and his loves, for he was very susceptible, as gaily as usual. But we cannot afford room for farther analysis. Every page of the book teems with profound views of human nature, with powerful criticism, and with sharp pictures of human life. We recommend the character of Zimmerman, particularly, to the attention of our readers. His temper, his conversation, his domestic tyranny, his stern enthusiasm, are given with the hand of a master.

It would be unjust if we were to conclude this article without remarking, that the collection of memoirs of German literati given at the conclusion, is excellently drawn up and highly useful to English readers.

THE HUNTER OF THE URUGUAY TO HIS LOVE.

WOULDST thou be happy, wouldst thou be free,
Come to our woody islands with me!*

Come while the summer sun is high,
Beneath the peach-tree's shade to lie;

Or thy hunter will shield thee the live-long day
In his hut of reeds from the scorching ray.
Those countless birds with wings of light
Shall flit and glitter before thy sight;

And their ceaseless songs from the palm-trees nigh,
Shall charm thee with echoing melody.

The leopard shall yield his spotted skin,
That thy couch may be softly spread;
Nought of evil shall enter in

To lurk around thy bed.

The Aot shall shun that sacred spot,

And flee away in fear:

The river-serpent shall harm thee not,

Nor the Cayman venture near.‡

Thou shalt list to the hymn of the bearded choir§

As eve comes gently on;

How the woods resound
With the lengthen'd sound,

Till in distance it is gone!

Thou shalt mark the Ounce|| in the leafy shade,
How he lures his finny prey,

Whose colours in the gleam display'd

Illumine the watery way:

The bright Dorado shall glitter by

With scales of gold and blue,

As the lucid waters tremblingly

Reflect each varying hue.

Come, my beloved-delay no more

I linger for thee upon the shore.

Fear not the rocks that darken our course,

Our canoes are swift and strong;

Fear not the eddy's hurrying force-
We shall dart like light along!

The willows are waving to hail us home,
When the hunter and his bride shall come.
All the joys of summer stay for thee,

Oh! come to our woody islands with me.

M. E.

* The Uruguay river is full of wooded islands, consisting of willow, peach, and palm-trees; they are the haunts of innumerable birds, remarkable for the splendour of their plumage and sweetness of their note. The Yaguarete or leopard of South America abounds here, and men pass the summer on these islands in hunting them for the sake of their skins. There are many rapids and eddies in some parts of this river, and the Indians use double canoes with oars, some seventy feet long. The Ao is an amphibious animal, very ferocious and formidable.

The Cayman, an animal of which some tribes of Indians stand in strange fear, believing it can only be killed by the reflection of its basilisk eye.

The bearded monkeys, a troop of which are called by the Portuguese a choir,

from their singing in concert at sunrise and sunset.

The Ounce has a singular stratagem to lure his prey.-See Southey's Hist. of Brazil.

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