. Review of reviews and world's work. nation. The Schiller conception of the world : his notion ofcountry, home, and family, of love, honor, and duty;liis belief in the brotherhood of man, the oneness of theuniverse, and the inherent goodness of the human heart;his idea of divine government,—these things, within adecade of the poets death, became part and parcel ofthe German .soul. After the war, Schiller was dethroned, andnearly every young German deemed himself aBismarck, a disciple of Nietzsche. During thelast fifteen years, this false god has been de-throned. Once more the German people, h
. Review of reviews and world's work. nation. The Schiller conception of the world : his notion ofcountry, home, and family, of love, honor, and duty;liis belief in the brotherhood of man, the oneness of theuniverse, and the inherent goodness of the human heart;his idea of divine government,—these things, within adecade of the poets death, became part and parcel ofthe German .soul. After the war, Schiller was dethroned, andnearly every young German deemed himself aBismarck, a disciple of Nietzsche. During thelast fifteen years, this false god has been de-throned. Once more the German people, highand low, recognize in him the poet who mostadmirably expresses the German soul at its best,the national consciousness at its truest. It issomewhat sad to remember that althoup-h theGerman nation has almost deified Schiller sincehis death, he spent his life in extreme poverty When the Korners offered him an asylum in Dresdenfor a time, in 1785, he was almost at starvation point;this was the time when he wrote his magnificent Song. JOHANN FRIEDRICH CHRISTOPH SCHILLER. to Joy, as well as his Don Carlos. When Goethesecured for him a professors chair of history in Jenathe salary was 200 thalers (about $145) a year. In thosedays, and until his death, apples and strong coffee hadbecome his inexpensive passion. The apples he usuallykept in a drawer of his writing-desk, and their odor, heclaimed, furnished him inspiration. When he wrotehis last, and perhaps most finished, drama, WilliamTell, a year before the end came, he w^as so overworkedand badly nourished that at night he kept himself fromfalling asleep at his Avork by munching apples andsteeping his bare feet in cold water. When he wrotehis Fiesco, while a fugitive at Mannheim, he livedjoyously on a diet of potatoes—potatoes baked, boiled,fried; potatoes, of which he had bought a cartload froma peasant, and which with their bulk took up abouthalf the floor space in his garret. No wonder his healthbroke down ! Even Chatterton
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