. The literary digest. and pity suffering. Everytime that I saw him I found him more tolerant, more human,reading others with a pitying clairvoyance, gained at last todivine forgiveness. Thus we have talked for hours, I watchinghis thin hands tremble, his emaciated face—the face of Christ—pale with emotion ; and I always went away shuddering andupset to think that this man in pain could speak so tenderly ofhuman suffering. Think of what he had conquered, of what he leaves, at theage of fifty-seven, when still producing with the same , it is nothing that his literary work is inte
. The literary digest. and pity suffering. Everytime that I saw him I found him more tolerant, more human,reading others with a pitying clairvoyance, gained at last todivine forgiveness. Thus we have talked for hours, I watchinghis thin hands tremble, his emaciated face—the face of Christ—pale with emotion ; and I always went away shuddering andupset to think that this man in pain could speak so tenderly ofhuman suffering. Think of what he had conquered, of what he leaves, at theage of fifty-seven, when still producing with the same , it is nothing that his literary work is interrupted ; it is suf-ficiently complete, sufficiently lofty, to be beyond the reach ofdestruction. THE GENIUS OF HEINE. ALL the authorities that we have immediately at hand givethe date of Heinrich Heines birth as December 13, 1799,agreeing in this with the date adhered to by Heines own Cosmopolis, however, accepts the conclusion reached by Elster, of Leipsic, that the proper date is 1797, and in. HEINKICH HEINE. commemoration of the hundredth anniversary has, in its Decem-ber issue, three articles on the poet-satirist-philosopher. In the French section of the magazine, Edouard Rod happilyillustrates the peculiar nature of Heines genius by a story ofgifts bestowed by fairies on the child of the Jewish merchant ofDiisseldorf. The good fairies gave, the infant imagination, sensi-bility, great talent, and, finally, genius. Then a wicked fairyapproached the cradle, saying : I can not take away anything that my sisters have listen : each one of these gifts they have made, you shallpossess in the highest degree. They have given you imagina-tion. You will have too much. Sensibility—again, you willhave too much. These qualities will be always manifested with equal force, and since no one has given you moderation—a medi-ocre quality which is little thought of by elves dancing in themoonlight on the banks of the Rhine—I declare that you willnever ac
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