Excerpt from Aus Goldenen Tagen: Studien Und Abenteuer It is a quiet and harmonious world, into which we are led by Heinrich Seidel, a world in which our parents and grandparents were at home in the days of Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Fritz Reuter, and which seemed to have been done away with forever under the war shouts of the realists and pessimists of our own day. But the German heart cannot be misled by factions squabbles and short-lived fooleries of fashion; a healthy romanticism with sylvan spirit and wood land charm being still, as in the days of Tacitus, the true foun dation of German life and aspiration. What wonder then, that Heinrich Seidel, the man with so much romantic blood in his veins, and so much optimism and idealism in his heart, and so much common sense and refreshing humor at his disposal, should have won, from the very start on his literary career, the sympathies of his countrymen, old and young, high and low! Seidel is the bard of the quiet and contented life of the healthy middle classes. To fashion and loftiness, to sensa tional events and tragic conflicts he gives a wide berth, but he has that reverence for the humble and unpretentious which en ables him to discover worlds of feelings and longings, where others would see nothing but common-place philistinism. And it is just for this reason that what cannot be said of very many literary creations of our day, must be said of his: They have helped to make man feel happier and healthier. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.