Excerpt from Pictures of Travel Heine most emphatically belongs to that class of writers, who are a scandal to the weaker brethren, a terror to the strong, and a puzzle to the conservatively wise of their own day and generation, but who are received by the intelligent cotemporary with a smile, and by the after comer with thanks. He belongs to that great band, whose laughter has been in its inner-soul more moving than the most fervid flow of serious eloquence - to the band which numbered Lucian and Rabelais, and Swift, among its members - men who lashed into motion the sleepy world of the day, with all its baroque-ish virtues and vices. Woe to those who are standing near when a humorist of this stamp is turned loose on the world. He knows nothing of your old laws - like an azrael-napoleon, he advances conscienceless, feeling nothing but an overpowering impulse, as of some higher power which bids him strike and Spare not. 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.