“In memory also of my beloved mother, Charlotte, Schiller’s earthly angel, I rejoice in this memorial.  She it was who, with deepest love for Switzerland, which she calls the land of her affections, where she passed happy youthful days from 1783 to 1784, led Schiller to it, and by her fresh, lively descriptions made him partake of it; and so prepared the way for the genius which could embrace and penetrate all things for the masterly representation of the country, which, unfortunately, his feet never trod.  If, unhappily, I am not able to be present at the festival on the 21st of October, I am not the less thankful for your kind invitation; and in that sacred hour I will be with you in spirit, deeply sympathizing with all that the noble idea brought into life.

“A little memorial of the 10th of November, 1859, representing Schiller and Charlotte, I pray you, Gentlemen, to accept of me, and, when you recall the parents, to remember also the daughter.

“Respectfully yours,

“EMILIE v.  GLEICHEN-RUSSWURM, geb. v.  SCHILLER.

“Greiffenstein ob Bonnland. 12 October, 1860.”

In the churchyard of Cleversulzbach lies buried, since the 2d of May, 1802, the mother of Schiller.  Prof.  Dr. E. Moerika, when he was preacher there, erected a simple stone cross over the grave, and with his own hands engraved upon it the words, “Schiller’s Mother.”  On the famous 10th of November, 1859, woman’s hand decorated the grave with flowers, and put a laurel wreath upon the cross; and in the hour when great cities with festal processions and banquets and oratory and jubilant song offered their homage to the son, a few persons gathered around the grave of the mother, and in the silence there planted a linden-tree; for in stillness thus, while she lived, had his mother done her part, lovingly and with faith, to unfold and consecrate the genius of Friedrich Schiller.

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A NOOK OF THE NORTH.

Adventurous travellers, who penetrated into Canada during the late visit of the Sovereign-Apparent of that colony, have furnished the public, through the daily press, with minute and more or less faithful descriptions of places upon the grand routes, Quebec and Montreal have been done by them to a hair; Kingston and another wicked place made notorious for bad manners; Toronto, Hamilton, and London of the West photographed with a camera of maximum dimensions.  Upon the two great railroad-lines by which Canada is now traversed,—­the Grand Trunk and the Great Western,—­there is hardly a station which has not been mentioned by the reporters, either for the loyal manner in which it was decorated to do honor to the youthful Prince, or for the rather inhospitable display of certain objectionable symbols by the people around.