Transcriber's Notes:
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2. Includes 1. A Divided Heart; 2. Minka; and 3. Rothenburg on the Tauber.
A DIVIDED HEART
Paul Heyse
A DIVIDED HEART
AND
OTHER STORIES
FROM
PAUL HEYSE
TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH
With an Introduction
BY
CONSTANCE STEWART COPELAND
New York:
BRENTANO'S
CHICAGO PARIS WASHINGTON
Copyright. 1894,
BY
BRENTANO'S.
BURR PRINTING HOUSE,
NEW YORK.
To
My Mother
C. S. C.
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION--PAUL HEYSE
PAUL HEYSE.
INTRODUCTION.
It occasionally happens that a reader expecting to find the customaryaccount of an author's early struggles for bread and knowledge, hisbitter disappointments, his late and almost joyless success, issurprised by the record of a singularly fortunate life; of a life whichadvances easily and naturally from a peaceful and promising childhoodto an equally peaceful, famous old age. Goethe's was such a life; andreading it, one feels that sharp encounter with the hardest facts ofexistence would have lessened his greatness, would have disturbed thatperfect serenity of soul which made him philosopher as well as poet,and fostered his fidelity to high ideals of life and art.
A countryman of Goethe's, Paul Heyse, born in Berlin in 1830, two yearsbefore the great poet's death, was no less fortunate in the lot towhich fate assigned him. Heyse's power was unlike Goethe's in kind anddegree, but the opportunities for its development were equallyfavorable. His father was a philologist and lexicographer, whose homewas comfortable and refined, and whose friends were cultured andliterary. He took charge of his son's early education, and naturallylaid great stress on language, inculcating the love for purity andexactness in its use, which is one of Heyse's best qualities.Stimulated by the atmosphere of his home, and by these studies inliterary technique, Heyse