Immortal Memories

Jewish race, his father a successful silk merchant. From boyhood he was now

hing to the river, where his terrified father finds him hesitating on the brink, and becomes reconciled. A more attractive picture of the old man is that told of his visit to his son-in-law, Friedland, who had married Lassalle's sister. Friedland was ashamed of h

n studies to which he owed his political philosophy. In 1845 he went to Paris, and there secured the friendship

hat I love you beyond measure. I have never before felt so much confidence in any one." "I have found in no one," he says again, "so much passion and clearness of i

ion, with the widest learning, with the greatest penetration that I have ever known, and with the richest gift of exposition, he combines an

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ke a zephyr when it kisses rose-blooms, how to breathe like fire when it rages and destroys; he calls forth all that i

disclosure of the facts. He pledged himself to save her, and for nine years carried on the struggle, with ultimate victory, but with considerable loss of reputation. He first told the story to Mendelssohn and Oppenheim, two friends of great wealth, the latter a Judge of one of the superior courts in Prussia. They agreed to help him; for then, as always, Lassalle's persuasive powers were irresistible. They went with him from Berlin to Düsseldorf, the Count being in that neighbourhood. Von Hatzfeldt was at Aix-la-Chapelle, caught in the toils of a new mistress, the Baroness Meyendorff. Lassalle discovered that she had obtained from the Count a deed assigning to her some property which should in the ordinary course have come to the boy Paul. The Countess, hearing of the disaster which seemed likely to befall her favourite son, made her way into her husband's presence, and in the scene which followed secured a promise that the document should be revoked-destroyed. But no sooner had she left him than the Count returned to the Meyendorff influence, and refused

his room was seen to have been left in confusion. He was pursued, but succeeded in escaping from a railway carriage and fleeing to Paris, leaving his luggage in the hands of the police.

into the struggle, both in the press and in the law courts. Here he seems to have parted company with Heine, because, as he tells us, "the Baroness

e the assize court of Cologne, and sentenced to five years' imprisonment. Alexander von Humboldt obtained a reduction of the sentence to one year, but on condition that Mend

of his more culpable friends. And this was not unnatural, because he was engaged year after year in continuous warfare with Count Hatzfeldt. At length

ars his senior, and the relation was clearly that of mother and son. In her letters he is always "my dear child," and in his she is the c

niges; and the remark opens out a vista of confidences of which the world happily knows but little. From the assize court of Düsseldor

, and dwelling recently at Berlin. Stands five feet six inches in height, has brown curly hair, o

tically admired on all sides. But, assuming the story of Sophie Solutzeff to be mythical, there is no e

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