is
country may well be proud, who has added to the happiness of hundreds
of thousands of Germans, and who only needs to be better understood to
be thoroughly enjoyed by foreigners.

England and America have much to learn from him--the value of long,
careful, and unremitting study; the advantage of being thoroughly
familiar with the scenes and types of character depicted; the charm of
an almost unequaled simplicity and directness. He possessed the rare
gift of being able to envelop every topic that he touched with an
atmosphere of elegance and distinction. His productions are not
ephemeral, but are of the kind that will endure.

* * * * *

_GUSTAV FREYTAG_

* * * * *

#THE JOURNALISTS#

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

BERG, _retired Colonel_.

IDA, _his daughter_.

ADELAIDE RUNECK.

SENDEN, _landed proprietor_.
_
PROFESSOR OLDENDORF, _editor-in-chief_. |
|
CONRAD BOLZ, _editor_. |
|
BELLMAUS, _on the staff._. |
|
KAeMPE, _on the staff_. } of the newspaper
| _The Union_.
KOeRNER, _on the staff_. |
|
PRINTER HENNING, _owner_. |
|
MILLER, _factotum_. _|

_
BLUMENBERG, _editor_. |
} of the newspaper
SCHMOCK, _on the staff_. _| _Coriolanus_.

PIEPENBRINK, _wine merchant and voter_.

LOTTIE, _his wife_.

BERTHA, _their daughter_.

KLEINMICHEL _citizen and voter_.

FRITZ, _his son_.

JUDGE SCHWARZ.

_A foreign ballet-dancer._

KORB, _secretary for Adelaide's estate_.

CARL, _the Colonel's man-servant._

_A waiter._

_Club-guests._ _Deputations of citizens_.

_Place of action: A provincial capital._

THE JOURNALISTS[1] (1853)

TRANSLATED BY ERNEST F. HENDERSON, PH.D., L.H.D.

ACT I

SCENE I

_A summer parlor in the_ COLONEL'S _house. Handsome furnishings. In
the centre of rear wall an open door, behind it a verandah and garden;
on the sides of rear wall lar