died of grief for her brother's loss, surviving him just long enough to paint his portrait and make a drawing of his last resting-place. Mrs. Hemans has a poem commemorating the noble brother and sister, containing a beautiful stanza addressed to Körner: "Fame was thy gift from others; but for her, To whom the wide world held that only spot, She loved thee! Lovely in your lives ye were, And in your early deaths divided not. Thou hast thine oak, thy tropy. What hath she? Her own blest place by thee!" Here is the song referred to above, entitled, 1. How true are THE RISING OF GERMANY. we together bound With un I deceitful heart; And dar - ing word-I'll speak it bold-ly out, I'll speak it bold-ly out. The time is ill, the world is vile; The no- blest men, a far; The earth be comes a yawn-ing grave For strength and freedom's star. Yet cour-age! when foul 2. And still the soul of Fatherland Soars, like an eagle's flight, And still all cruel chains to rend Want of space has compelled the omission of many details and examples, so that we have said nothing about the comic and convivial folk-songs, or the student and Burschenschaft songs, and other kinds. We cannot omit, however, to give a sample of the sacred songs of this people's-music. Luther was the first to introduce metrical psalmody into the church service, and his Fatherland sup A seed from Ger-man soil. Then courage, comrades, dare be strong! When we with our own red heart's blood, O lead us, Lord, e'en though to death, plies some very beautiful sacred songs from its folk-melodies. Here is one most happily wedded to the words, which we have translated without rhyme, in order to preserve as literally as possible the strength and beauty of the original. For a similar reason, we give the beautiful harmony, somewhat reduced, which accompanies it in the "Deutsches Liederlexicon" of August Härtel : Moderato. SUNDAY. 1. The Sun-day is here! It cometh, sent to us from heaven! It still - eth the turmoil of all earth-ly care; It stands by the way-side, It preach-es the bless-ings Which God us doth give, Which God us doth give. German song has not been silent since the breaking out of the present war. It has poured forth much stirring devotion to the Fatherland, and many lyrics which are said to have won great admiration. The following lines refer to Körner triumphantly. They are from a song entitled 1813-1870, published in the Main Zeitung, as translated for N. Y. Evening Post: "Rouse up, my soul, the reddening fires aro flaring!" High beats the heart; the hand the sword swung high; From every glance flashed anger deep, and daring. VOL. VI.-23 "France is somewhat superior to the German states now at war in population, and greatly so in the numbers and cost of her standing army; she is and has long been thoroughly centralized in government, while they have been divided into many states, which, within four years, have been at war among themselves. There must, therefore, be some sources of national strength, not contained in statistical tables, in which Germany is vastly superior to France. "Doubtless these are chiefly the superior honesty of the civil and military service, and the superior education of the people. When the Emperor Napoleon seized the throne, he was surrounded by a body of adventurers, whom he was compelled to use and to reward, but whose corrupt practices gave character to every branch of his government. From that day to this complaints have been loud and bitter of the stock-jobbing plots of his ministers, and the selfish and plundering schemes of their subordinates. A military government is always wasteful in the extreme; but add to this wastefulness general corruption, and it is easy to see how the immense sums which have been added to the French national debt have been squandered, without securing efficiency even in the army. A throne founded in dishonor and perjury and cemented by murder could not expect to be served in any other than its own pirate spirit; and the unquestionable disorder, bad discipline, and constant failures in supplies which marked the first movements of the Emperor's army to the frontier, are the necessary results of the general corruption of his service. "On the other hand, Prussia is not a military despotism, but a constitutional monarchy, with a nation organized on a military basis. Her citizens are all soldiers, but they are citizens still. They identify themselves at all points with the interests of the nation, in peace as in war; and while their resources are not wasted in maintaining a million of men under arms through a long peace, they learn the military discipline, and always hold themselves ready to prac tise it when needed. The German army is thus as truly a citizen army as our own. The government is stable; it is not afraid of individual freedom; its civil service and military staff are filled for competency, and not as the rewards of treason or of cruelty; and thus its administration is pure, patriotic, and vigorous. "Again, in education the French people are behind those of many nations; the Germans are in advance of the world. In several large districts in France a majority of the adults are entirely illiterate; in Prussia a man who cannot write is rarer than in Massachusetts. Where Napoleon has wasted millions on his favorites and his army, the Prussian government has spent a fraction of the amount in securing the intelligence of its people. Man against man, a body of thinking, reading soldiers will always be more than a match for ignorant ones; and the unquestioned personal superiority of the German armies in this war must be ascribed more to their superior intelligence than to any other cause." CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR. Being without sufficient cause, will any good yet come of the war? Much suffering, much sorrow, much ruin will come of it; but can we hope for any real advantages to be derived from it, for the nations engaged or for the world? Can the overruling Providence permit so enormous a waste of life and treasure, without directing it to some adequate and beneficent end? For our part, we cannot believe it; not only our hopes but our convictions are, that it must terminate in some result greater than the mere political or territorial aggrandizement of either of the immediate parties to it. One thing is certain: in France there is an end to personal government. The imperial system, which is despotism with the forms of liberty, has forever gone down in contempt and disgrace, along with its principal exponent, Louis Napoleon. Never again can the French nation become so besotted as to trust its destinies to a single mind, |