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    the ** of ail other natiohs . But in the earliest German masters * are found all the deeper and more intellectual qualities of art * the importance of Which is ttow universally felt irt Germany ; and

    which is become ati Object i 3 f study to the antiquaries and men of taste in that coutitryk ^* Thi& article gives an account of a ri um ^ ber of paintings discovered to 1815 , at- Leipzig , by the elder and young Cranach , and by athfcf painters unknown , of the 16 th and 15 th centuries .

    12 . Sculpture . We can notice only Myron ' s Cow . Goethe compares the well-known epigrams of the Greek anthology with some bas-reliefs on coins df Dyrrhachium— -he enlarges on the gracfc which lies on the animal futictior of sucking ; and on the beauty of the Roman legend of the she-wolf and the royal twins .

    - ^ ' Compared with this great thought , how weak appears an Auguafa puerpera ... * * * The sense and the efforts of the Greeks were to dfeify man , not to humanize the divinity . Here is no anthropomorphism * but a theomorphistn . Further , the animal in man was not ennobled , but the human in the animal

    was brought forward , that Wfc might With a higher sense of art rejoice in it as we already , froni ah irresistible natural impulse , delight in living animals , choosing them for our servants and companions . ' The preceding articles , as Well as those We have been constrained entirely to pass ovet , are of a late date . The volume concludes with a reprint of a composition so far back as 1773 , on German

    architecture , first excited by a sight of Strasburg cathedral . And half a century afterwards , in 1823 , he returns with revived pleasure to the subject . By Germari architecture , he means what Was first called Gothic in reproach , and which our antiquaries have begun to entitle English . It is worthy of remark that Goethe does mH appear to think that Strasburg cathedral has ceased to be a work of German art because the soil on which it stands is

    now a part of France . There is a cosmopolitism in this feeling which we can cordially sympathize with , except at moments when the cause of national independerlce requires that feelings of nationality should supersede all others . Tnis was peculiarly the case in the period , between the years 1805—^ 1813 . It is eminently not the case now . Genuine patriotism ought to be but applied philanthropy and is not to shin ; with the changes of a boundary treaty . In tnis article Goethe gives ati interesting account of « t then recent discovery of the original plarifc of the cathedral of Cologne , of which only the chair was executed , and which would have surpassed every rjeliglOuS structure in England , France , or Spain , had it ever been com plated .,-Messrs . Boisser 6 e have since published these designs ariU plans in a very splendid work . In conclusion , our authof calls on the Germans to raise , by voluntary contributions , a sum sufficient for the restoration of the cathedral of Strasburg , and the preservation at least of the Cologne

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1833, page 278, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2612/page/62/