er letter from Dr. Hill describes how he found himself at Ashbourne
in Derbyshire with the Club, or rather with a fragment of it. He wrote
from the _Green Man_ there concerning his adventures.

I have far exceeded my time, but I would like in conclusion to say how
admirably his daughter has written this book on our Brother Birkbeck
Hill. What a pleasant picture it presents of a genuine lover of
literature. His was not an analytical mind nor was he a great critic.
His views on Dante and Newman will not be shared by any of us. But, what
is far more important than analysis or criticism, he had an entirely
lovable personality and was a most clubbable man. He was moreover the
ideal editor of Boswell. What more could be said in praise of a beloved
Brother of the Johnson Club!

VII. THE PRIVATE LIFE OF FERDINAND LASSALLE {185}

Ich habe die Inventur meines Lebens gemacht.
Es war gross, brav, wacker, tapfer und glanzend genug.
Eine kunftige Zeit wird mir gerecht zu warden wissen.

--FERDINAND LASSALLE, _August_ 9, 1864.

I. The Countess Sophie von Hatzfeldt.

Ferdinand Lassalle was born at Breslau on April 11, 1825. His parents
were of Jewish race, his father a successful silk merchant. From boyhood
he was now the tyrant, now the slave of a mother whom he loved and by
whom he was adored. Heymann Lassal--his son changed the spelling during
his Paris sojourn--appears to have been irritable and tyrannical; and
there are some graphic instances in the recently published "Diary" {186}
of the differences between them, ending on one occasion in the boy
rushing 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 his Jewish origin,
and old Lassalle startled the guests at dinner by rising and frankly
stating that he was a Jew, that his daughter was a Jewess, and that her
husband was of the same race. The guests cheered, but the host never
forgave his too frank father-in-law.

Lassalle was a student at Breslau University, and later at Berlin, where
he laid the foundation of those Hegelian studies to which he owed his
political philosophy. In 1845 he went to Paris, and there secured the
friendship of Heine, being included with George Sand in the interesting
circle around the "mattress grave"