The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . y in the wrongin accusing him of atheism. Although Xenophaneswas not a clear and systematic thinker, he exercised avery remarkable influence on the progress of specula-tion.—History of Philosophy. GEORGE JIEARY LEWES 333 A PICTURE OF WEIMAR. Weimar is an ancient city on the Ilm, a small streamrising in the Thuringian forests, and losing itself in theSaal at Jena, a stream on which the sole naviga
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . y in the wrongin accusing him of atheism. Although Xenophaneswas not a clear and systematic thinker, he exercised avery remarkable influence on the progress of specula-tion.—History of Philosophy. GEORGE JIEARY LEWES 333 A PICTURE OF WEIMAR. Weimar is an ancient city on the Ilm, a small streamrising in the Thuringian forests, and losing itself in theSaal at Jena, a stream on which the sole navigationseems to be that of ducks, and which meanders peace-fully through pleasant valleys, except during the rainyseason, when the mountain-torrents swell its currentand overflow its banks. The town is charmingly placedin the Ilm valley and stands some 800 feet above thelevel of the sea. Weimar, says the old topographer,Matthew Merian, is Weinmar, because it was the wine-market for Jena and its environs. Others say it wasbecause someone here in ancient days began to plantthe vine, who was hence called Weinmayer. But of thiseach reader may believe just what he pleases.—Lifeand Works of LEWIS, Charles Bertrand, an Americanhumorist, better known by his pen-name , born in Liverpool, Ohio, February 15,1842. He was educated at the Michigan Agricult-ural College ; and was a volunteer soldier in theFederal army during the Civil War. About 1869he began to be known as the Detroit Free Pressman, under the following circumstances, as toldby Edmund Kirke in Harper s Monthly: Hiscareer did not begin till he was blown up on anOhio River steamboat. He is, perhaps, the onlyman who has been lifted into fame by being tosseda hundred feet into the air, and coming down,more dead than alive, to tell the story. Standingat his printers case, when he was so far recoveredas to limp about, he put into type How It Feels tobe Blown Up; and the whole West burst intolaughter. That laugh made
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