How different this picture of the Great General from that which we are accustomed to see in the books of the present time. In any exhaustive study of American literature or bibliography this work will be found an indispensable help and guide as presenting most important origins and sources. Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pennsylvania. The Book that Stimulated the Great German Emigration to Pennsylvania in the Early Years of the XVIII Century. A Reprint of the Edition of 1702, amplified with the Text of the Original Manuscript in the Halle Archives. Together with an Introduction and English Translation of the Complete Work by Julius Friedrich Sachse, Litt. D., etc., etc., Philadelphia: Printed for the Author, MDCCCCV. This interesting document of Falckner, consisting of 103 questions touching emigration to America and the conditions of settlement there, constitute a most important chapter in the early German settlement of the American colonies. The present reprint of these questions presents the texts of the questions both in the published version of 1702 in heavy German type, and variations and omissions from the orignal MS. inserted in brackets in Roman type, thus enabling the reader to see at a glance the changes made in the printed text. It will be interesting to see what questions were asked by the prospective emigrant to America in the beginning of the eighteenth century. While many of them seem to us childish, almost simple, in their naïveté, some are pertinent even for the emigrant of the present time. A few specimens will illustrate : No. 2. "How to conduct oneself upon the voyage. It were well that one depart without bustle or excitement, but with a righteous leave taking in the Fear of God. **** Moreover be quick to hear but slow to speak. In outward appearances do all things without doubting or complaint, and be content with what is there." (A most wholesome bit of advice!) No. 4. "Goods to be taken along for service in Pennsylvania. Dutch and Osnabrück linens, Holland thread, Bremen bed sheets, whereof one must first get information from England if they can be loaded in Holland and how high the tariff is. Frilled stockings, several good razors, butchers' knives, chopping knives, broadaxes, all sorts of chisels and files, spades, shovels, scythes, forks, sickles, saws, hammers, iron pots and kettles, also small copper kettles, all kinds of cheap woolen goods for children's wear and linings, several mattresses, colored kerchiefs, calico and canton flannel, all kinds of cookery spices, glazier's lead, powder and shot, in all sizes, and dust shot for shooting birds.” The volume is furnished with a historical introduction and a map of the Swedish and Dutch settlements on the Delaware, and a map of Pennsylvania and West Jersey, with fifty or more other illustrations. This work, like all by the same author, is an attractive specimen of book making. CONTINUATION OF THE QUARTERLY AMERICANA GERMANICA A MONTHLY DEVOTED TO THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE Historical, Literary, Linguistic, Educational and Commercial Relations THE GERMAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY KEGAN, PAUL TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LTD. F. A. BROCKHAUS H. LESOUDIER SCHILLER'S CONCEPTION OF LIBERTY AND THE SPIRIT OF '76. This paper contains a tentative résumé of the investigation in a field which is at once inviting because of the wealth of material and hazardous because of the complicated character of its problems. This investigation has consisted of an examination of Schiller's writings, especially his dramas. I have also begun to examine the speeches and struggles in the English parliament, as well as the records of the assemblies and conventions, the speeches, pamphlets, etc., of the leaders of the Colonists. Here I have depended to a large extent upon secondary material. My object is to trace the similarity of Schiller's conception of liberty in its different phases to that revealed in the growth of the spirit embodied in the Constitution of the United States. The need of the treatment of this problem was suggested by the lack of knowledge of the students in my classes, not only of the political and constitutional aspects of the great American revolution, but especially of the struggles for the individual rights of man by the founders of our country. Many claim that in this day of political corruption the spirit of '76 seems almost 'Paper read before the Michigan Society of the Sons of the American Pevolution, Detroit, Mich., April 15, 1905. |