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A Military Journal during the American Revolutionary War, from 1775 to 1783, describing interesting Events and Transactions of this Period, with numerous Historical Facts and Anecdotes, from the Original Manuscript; to which is added an Appendix, containing Biographical Sketches of several General Officers. By James Thacher, M. D. late Surgeon in the American Army. Boston. 1823. 8vo. pp. 603. their children. ed. No. 4. covered him over with warm tar and then with dure so much cropping and dressing up.nish an opportunity to inflict punishment and to On page 82 is a queer story of a riot in the American barracks, which does little credit to the manners or the discipline of our troops. THIS work should have been noticed before; it was published many months since, Dr Thacher had just finished his medical and though, as we understand, it has sold studies when the war broke out, and he rewell, its peculiar character and use render paired to Watertown where the Congress it deserving of more attention than it has were then in session, and offered his servireceived. Such books are now demanded ces as surgeon. He was approved, placed by the reading community, and the histor- on the list of army surgeons, and comical and permanent reputations of the emi-menced duty in the hospital at Cambridge, nent among our fathers, will probably be on the 15th of July, 1775. Our limits will fixed by them. We may hope they will ap- not allow us to follow our author in his pear, for such calls are generally answer- whole career; we can only say, he was racks last evening, attended by some unpleasant "A singular kind of riot took place in our bared; and whether they are histories, or jour- generally fortunate enough to be where any consequences. Colonel A. W. of Massachusetts, nals, or biographies, they should be a state- thing peculiarly interesting or important made choice of his two sons, who were soldiers in ment of facts and circumstances relative to was going on. Sick and wounded officers his regiment, to discharge the menial duties of important men and measures, plainly and of high rank, were frequently put under his waiters; and one of them having been brought up accurately told. The writers of them may care, and he availed himself of every op- to allow him to work on his bench in the same a shoemaker, the Colonel was so inconsiderate as be assured that the more fully, circumstan-portunity thus afforded him, to obtain accu- room with himself. This ridiculous conduct has tially, and simply, the record of the gene-rate and valuable information. We may, for some time drawn on the good old man the conration which has just gone, is made up, the without flattery or undue panegyric, give temptuous sneers of the gentleman officers, espemore acceptable and valuable will it be to our author credit for being an excellent cially those from Pennsylvania. Lieutenant ColoYankee. He appears to have been always wine, took upon himself the task of reprehending nel C. of Wayne's regiment, being warmed with inquisitive and active,-a good guesser, suf- the Yankee Colonel for thus degrading his rank. ficiently endowed with proper confidence in With this view he rushed into the room in the himself, and nowise wanting in disposition evening and soon despatched the shoemaker's or ability to thrust himself forward into the bench; after which, he made an assault on the Coacquaintance of all persons and affairs of noise and confusion soon collected a number of of lonel's person, and bruised him severely. The consequence, whenever it could be done ficers and soldiers, and it was a considerable time with propriety and decorum. Accordingly, before the rioters could be quelled. Some of the he knows every body, and is full of anec soldiers of Colonel Wayne's regiment actually took dotes about every body, and his anecdotes to their arms and dared the Yankees, and then proare generally told in a lively, and pleasant thirty or forty rounds were aimed at the soldiers of ceeded to the extremity of firing their guns. About way. His journal is a very respectable our regiment, who were driven from their huts and history of the whole war; not so particular barracks, and several of them were severely as larger works, but much more interesting wounded. Colonel C. in making an assault on a and probably quite as authentic. For many superior officer, and encouraging a riot, is guilty of important events and facts, it is itself the was in the power of Colonel W., and, in fact, it was one of the highest crimes in our articles of war. It best possible evidence, being the testimony his duty to bring the audacious offenders to exemof an intelligent and honest eyewitness. plary punishment; but, as if to complete the disTo illustrate our author's mode of story-grace of the transaction, Colonel C. sent some soltelling, we will extract a few paragraphs. On the 15th page, is a recital of one of the many abuses which exasperated the people of Boston into more determined hostility against England. This journal is evidently not printed as it was written. The style is too elaborate; the hopes, fears, and expectations appended to the more important events, are too sagacious. A young man not in the line as a military officer, could not find leisure in the vicissitudes and bustle of active war, to adorn his journal with figures of speech; nor would he probably be endowed with a spirit of prophecy, which could tell him just when to hope for escape and victory, and when to fear peril and suffering. On the other hand, many of the most,interesting scenes, which occurred in the war of the revolution, are described with a minuteness and life, not to be reconciled with the supposition, that the whole account was written recently. We therefore suppose, that Dr Thacher actually kept a journal during the war, which he has since written over, suppressing matter which he supposed uninteresting, filling up outlines originally drawn in haste and so defectively, and intercalating many passages of sagacious remark and fine writing. diers into the woods to shoot a fat bear, with which and his officers to partake of it; this effected a rehe made an entertainment, and invited Colonel W. conciliation; and Colonel W. was induced to overlook the high-handed assault on his own person and on the lives of his soldiers. Our Colonel is a serious, good man, but is more conversant with "The public indignation is now greatly excited the economy of domestic life than the etiquette by the following shameful transaction. The peo-practised in camp." into Boston, were suspected by the officers of purple from the country, whose business called them This we take to be the true history of of the life and sufferings of this journal; On page 136 is a professional account of and rather regret that it was called to en-chasing guns from their soldiers. In order to fur- a wound received by one of our soldiers, which is almost far enough beyond the extraordinary to reach the incredible. "A brave soldier received a musket ball in his forehead; observing that it did not penetrate deep, it was imagined that the ball rebounded and fell out; but after several days, on examination, I detected the ball lying flat on the bone, and spread under the skin, which I removed. No one can doubt but he received his wound while facing the yet, we verily believe, history can show as us into close acquaintance with those spirits of air, earth, and sea, which have been so long banished from legitimate works of fiction, and many of its most important personages, are not of human flesh and blood; yet he has contrived from this very circumstance, which commonly detracts so much from the interest of works into which it is admitted, to throw an inexpressible charm around his heroine, and a peculiar tenderness into the interest which she excites. Undine is one of a race of beings whose habitation is in the waters,-who possess in some respects a superiority over the inhabitants of earth, but in others are less favoured. We cannot help feeling, strange as it may seem to many, and false as it may seem to some, that Washington is not fairly and enemy, and it is fortunate for the brave fellow that rightly appreciated by his countrymen. his skull proved too thick for the ball to penetrate." There is a sort of fashion of thinking him negatively rather than positively great. No On page 209 is an anecdote of James one denies his reliance upon justice and Otis; a man whose whole life was a passion right, his courage or his faith in the ultiof patriotism; who seemed to know no love mate prevalence of a good cause; for he but for his country; and whose death was jeopardized fortune, life, and reputation in a as peculiar as his character and influence. conflict between rebellion, weak, poor, and If he had lived in those ancient days when almost resourceless, and sovereignty, powimagination ran riot, and reason content-erful, armed, and resolute. None doubt his than you others of the human race; for we also "We are in many things," says she, "happier, edly followed her delightful wanderings, integrity; for all temptation man can meet, call ourselves human, being formed like you in our they who saw him fall, smitten down by the was offered him, during the war, by the en- bodies;-but there is a sad draw-back. We, and fires of heaven in their passage to earth, emy, and at its close, by every feeling of our fellow-spirits in the other elements, die, and and remembered his burning zeal, and his ambition and self-love in his own heart, and vanish into air, with body and spirit, and leave no power of communicating to others the in- he was moved by them,-less than the sumtrace behind us, and when you others shall awake to a purer life, we remain where sand and weeds, tensity of his own feelings and the foresight mer breeze may move an oak. But his and wind and waves remain. We have, therefore, of his own sagacity, would have believed him intellect was as extraordinary as his moral in truth, no souls; we move in the element, comthe chosen channel through which the nature; its essential quality was pure wis-manding it as long as we live, but the element scatneeded fire and light from heaven might dom, profound, unerring, almost superhu-ters us into dust as soon as we die, and we are pass to the minds and hearts of his coun- man; and because there was in his mind no cheerful, without troubling ourselves for the future; as nightingales, and little gold-fishes, and other trymen. effort, no turbulence, nothing but the quiet of beautiful children of nature are likewise. But all unfading and shadowless light; because he creatures wish to rise above their station. So was formed his conclusions and went to his re-it with my father, who is a powerful water-prince in the Mediterranean sea; he wished his daughter it all the sorrows which belong to people who have to be gifted with a soul, though she must suffer with souls. But our race can only gain a soul, by the most intimate union of love with one of yours." This book contains much evidence, and more assertion respecting a circumstance in our history which has never been so dis-sults almost intuitively, and needed no collitinctly explained or so thoroughly estab- sion with other minds to strike out the light lished as its importance deserves. We al- of his own, his wondrous endowments were lude to the gradual growth, the power, and hardly known;-and there are, who think the final dissolution of a party in the coun- him a cold and prudent man, gifted with try, and yet more in the Congress, adverse excellent temper, and excellent sense, but to Washington, and desirous of placing withal possessed of no very remarkable Green, Gates, or Lee, in his high office of genius. Now, we speak not of gratitude commander in chief. The fact seems to be due to him; of the policy of rewarding such generally admitted, and is noticed and al- services with high fame; but we advise all luded to in almost every history; but this who dare to look up and measure an intelis not enough; names, motives, and circum-lect which led the destinies of this land, and stances should be now fully disclosed by was the instrument chosen by God to work those who have it in their power to do so, a nation's deliverance,-we do request them if any such there be. We cannot imagine any reasons of policy, or of delicacy towards individuals, which should have sufficient power to conceal from the people the true extent and character of a powerful attack upon him, who deserves from us the name of Father of his country, more than any man ever deserved the name from any country. to learn to measure it aright; to estimate Undine. A Tale, from the German of Fred- adopted daughter of a poor fisherman and his To effect this purpose, she becomes the wife; and in due time, with the effectual assistance of Kuhleborn, a neighbouring water-god, her very respectable uncle, bebrand, of Ringstetten, and thus acquires a comes the wife of a noble knight, Huld human soul. "Now, I have a soul," she says to her husband after her mariage: "I thank thee for it, thou infor it, even if thou shouldst make my whole life, one expressibly loved! and I will be grateful to thee of sorrow. For what then will become of me, if thou should avoid and reject me? Through deception, however, I would not preserve your love. And if it is your choice to leave me; do it now, by going back alone to the shore. I shall plunge into this brook, which is my uncle, who passes in the forest his singular solitary life, far distant from the rest of his friends. He is powerful, however, and much esteemed by many large rivers, and as he Phil-child, he will carry me back to my relations, a spirbrought me to the fisherman, a careless, laughing itual, living,-suffering woman." It may well be that something of the spirit which gave life to this party yet remains. All who are conversant with, or adelphia. 1824. 12mo. pp. 170. have heard much of our eminent men, know that there are amongst them, some who have THIS is a singularly wild, fantastical, and felt no love nor reverence for the great name even whimsical production; and is yet at the of our country; and who would not, like same time highly beautiful and attractive. Mr Giles, a man whose talents and honesty We scarcely know, indeed, when we have all must respect, declare upon the floor of been more fascinated, than during the few the Senate Chamber, that he had enter- moments which were occupied in turning tained prejudices against Washington, but over the pages of this little tale. The nartake him altogether, never should he look rative is plain, intelligible, and continued upon his like again." The war of our In- without interruption; the characters condependence was a strange one; the world sistent, true to nature, such as their nature had seldom seen a colony in its youth, fight- is, and well supported throughout; and the ing with the energy which ensures suc- incidents and situations, although often cess, against its mother land, from an in- somewhat amusing and grotesque, are fretense scorn and hatred, not of oppress-quently also exceedingly touching and paion, but of all claim of right to oppress; thetic. It is true, that the author brings From this time, her character, which had before been wild, inconsistent, frolick some, and often perverse, undergoes an entire change; she becomes the most tender and affectionate of wives, and her heart is the seat of the most benevolent feelings and intentions. Unfortunately, in the exercise of these kind dispositions, she confers, what she imagines a great benefit, upon Bertha, the adopted daughter of a rich duke, by informing her of her real parents, the worthy fisherman and his wife. Bertha being, however, of a totally different opinion, considers this rather as a mortal injury, and conducts matters in so unbecoming a manner on the occasion, that the good duke, scandalized at The grief of her husband, and even that of Bertha, who is not destitute of all good feelings, is deep and sincere; but like all human grief, and particularly like all widowers' grief, it wears away, and they prepare for their own nuptials. A multitude of omens warn them to avoid this consummation of their injustice towards the hapless Undine. A law of the children of Neptune, it seems, would oblige Undine to put to death her husband, should he wed another. Of this she warns him in a dream; but neither dreams nor omens can arrest the destined pair. They are married, and Huldbrand renders himself liable to the penalty of this law. One thing still preserves him; the stone yet remains upon the fountain, which Undine had placed there, and till this be removed, no water-spirit can gain access to the Castle. But the foolish vanity of his new wife soon removes this last obstacle. She longs on her wedding night for some of the water of this fountain, to remove some freckles from her skin; her obsequious attendants remove the stone, and thus the fate of her husband is sealed. the account of the first interview of Un- "In the midst of their discourse, the stranger my power over him again, and now first perceived that my deliverer was no white man, but a silver stream, which rushed down from a hill before me, furiously crossing, and hemming in the path of my steed. "Thanks, dear streamlet! cried Undine, clapping her hands. But the old man shook his head, and looked down thoughtfully. "I had hardly fixed myself again in my saddle, and taken my reins properly, resumed Huldbrand, when there stood at my side a strange little man, diminutive and ugly beyond measure, of a brownish yellow colour, and with a nose not much smaller than the whole little pigmy besides. At the same time, he grinned at me with his broad spreading mouth, with a very stupid politeness, and made thousands of bows and grimaces before me. As this puppet's play displeased me much, I thanked him quite crustily, turned off my yet trembling horse, and thought I would seek another adventure, or turn my steps homewards if none appeared; for the sun, during my wild race, had already passed the zenith, and was going fast towards the west. But the little clown sprung round with the speed of lightning, and stood again before my steed. Stand off! said I, crossly; the animal is wild, and will make nothing of running over thee. Ay? snarled the little wretch, and laughed yet more shockingly; throw me first some drink money, for I have stopped your little courser. You would have lain, "While they were speaking, the door flew open, and a fair-haired girl, of remarkable beauty, sprang laughing in, and said: You have only cheated me, father; where then is our guest?-Immediately, however, she perceived the Knight, and stood fixed in astonishment at the handsome youth. Huldbrand was charmed with the beautiful figure, and gazed the more earnestly at her lovely features, because he imagined that her surprise alone gave him the opportunity, and that she would immediately turn from his gaze, with added timidity. It happened, however, quite otherwise. For after having fong observed him, she approached confidently, kneeled before him, and said, while she played with your horse, in the cleft of the rock yonder if with a golden medal which hung on his breast, sus- I had not saved you; Hu!-A truce then with your pended from a rich chain: Ah, thou beautiful, much vile grimaces, said I, and you shall have the desired guest, hast thou come at last to our poor pence, though you tell not the truth; for see, the cottage? Wast thou then forced to wander for long good brook yonder preserved me, but not you, poor years about the earth, before thou couldst find us? miserable wight. And, with that, I dropped a gold Dost thou come from the wild forest, my fair friend? piece into his curious cap, which he held before The scolding old dame left him no time for reply. me, in the attitude of a beggar. Then, I journeyed She commanded the girl to stand up properly, and on; but he screamed after me, and was soon up attend to her business. Undine, however, without with me, running with inconceivable rapidity. I removing, took a little footstool next to Huldbrand's spurred my horse into a gallop; he galloped with chair, sat down on it, and taking her work, said me, though not without effort, and made many wonpleasantly: I will sew here. The old man did as old derful, half diverting, and half frightful distortions men are wont to do with perverse children. He ap- of his body, during all which he held up the gold peared as if he took no notice of Undine's oddity, piece in the air, crying with each stride; False and began to attempt some other conversation. But coin! false gold! false money! false coin! And the girl would not allow it. She said: I have asked this he roared out with such a hollow sound, that our fine guest from whence he came, and he has not one would have thought he must needs fall dead to the ground after each cry. His frightful red tongue answered me. I came from the forest, fair creature, answered Huldbrand. You must tell me then, hung far out of his mouth. I stopped, much dishow you came to venture into it, for men generally turbed; I asked, What means thy cry? Take anavoid it: and what wonderful adventures befell you other gold piece, take two more, but leave me alone. Then he resumed his frightful courteous greetings, there; for no one, they say, goes through it without and snarled; Not gold, it shall not be gold, my meeting some." Huldbrand gives some account of his ad- end, said I to myself, in a pleasant mood; and be- For this meagre outline of the story of "My terrified horse had well nigh run with me Undine, we can only apologize by remark-against the trunks and branches of trees; he pering, that some knowledge of it is necessary spired much from distress and the violence of the by way of preparation for the right under- exercise, yet would not halt. At last he went standing of a few extracts which we pro-peared to me suddenly as if a tall, white man, threw strait on towards a stony precipice; then it appose to make from the work itself, as speci- himself in the way of the mad horse: The animal mens of its style and execution. We quote stopped upon this, and stood before him; I regained young master; I have too much already of that sort of stuff: Here it is, I will show it to you. "Then it seemed to me all at once, as if I could see through the firm green plain, as if it were green in it were a crowd of gnomes, playing with silver and glass, and the smooth earth round and hollow, and gold. They were tumbling about like madmen, throwing the precious metals at each other, and blowing the gold dust into each other's eyes. My hateful companion stood half within, half without; the others reached him a great deal of gold, which he showed me laughing, and then tossed it again, ringing as it went, into the immeasurable gulph. Then he showed my gold piece again to the gnomes below, and they laughed themselves half dead over it, and hissed at me. At last they all raised towards me their long fingers, dirty with the metal, and wilder and wilder, thicker and thicker, madder and madder, arose the tumultuous throng around me; and then I was seized with horror, like that which before had seized my horse. I put spurs to him, and know not how far this second time I rode madly into the forest. "When I halted again at last, the coolness of the evening was around me. Through the branches I discovered a white foot-path, which I thought must lead out of the forest to the city. I tried to penetrate in that direction; but a snow-white, indistinct countenance, with ever-changing features, looked but which ever way I turned, I found it was there. towards me, from the leaves; I tried to avoid it, In a fit of fury I tried at last to drive my steed swiftly against it; then a rushing of white foam 52 came before me and my horse, which completely dazzled us both. This drove us, from step to step, aside from the foot-path, and only left a single path open to us. But if we attempted to go on, it was close behind us; it did us, however, no harm.When I occasionally looked behind, I marked well, that the white, foaming countenance was attached to an equally white and very gigantic body. Sometimes I fancied it was a moving well-spring, but I could never make any thing certain of it. The horse and rider followed exhausted, the driving white man, who continually beckoned to us with his head, as if he would say: Right! right! And so we reached, at last, the end of the wood, and came out in this spot, where I saw the green turf, the lake, and your little cottage, and where the tall white man vanished." We pass to the account which is given of the first wandering of the affections of Huldbrand from their legitimate object. "The writer of this history, because his heart is moved by it, and because he wishes that it may excite in others the same emotion, begs a favour of thee, dear reader. Excuse him, if he now passes over a long space of time with a few words, and only tells thee its events in general terms. He well knows, that it would be possible to relate regularly, and step by step, how Huldbrand's mind began to turn from Undine, and to incline towards Bertha; how Bertha continually met the approaches of the young Knight with glowing love, and they both appeared to fear Undine rather as a being of another order, than to sympathize with her; how Undine wept, and her tears produced the pangs of remorse in the Knight's heart, without rekindling his former love, so that he would treat her affectionately for a little while, till a cold shuddering turned him from her side, and drew towards him a being of his own species in Bertha. * * * "Poor Undine was much distressed; the other two were, also, not happy; Bertha, especially, was accustomed, on the smallest disappointment of her wishes, to apprehend the influence of the justly jealous wife to be the cause. She assumed, in consequence, a tone of haughty superiority, which Undine submitted to with painful self-denial, and which was commonly supported in the most decided manner by the deluded Huldbrand.-What disturbed still more the company at the castle, were various wonderful apparitions, which encountered Huldbrand and Bertha in the vaulted passages of the tower, and of which nothing had been heard before, within the memory of man. The tall, white man, in whom Huldbrand too well recognized uncle Kuhleborn, Bertha, the mysterious master of the spring, often stepped before them in a threatening manner, but especially before Bertha, so that she had often fallen in swoons, from terror, and had thought many times of leaving the castle. But she was prevented, partly by her love to Huldbrand, and partly by the sentiment of her own innocence, because they had never come to an open explanation: and partly likewise, by her ignorance where to direct her steps." While sailing on the Danube, Huldbrand, Undine, and Bertha, are constantly disturbed by the rude pranks of Kuhleborn, which are only repressed by the presence and authority of Undine. "Hardly, however, had she closed her eyes, when each one in the boat, in whatever direction he might chance to look into the water, saw a frightful countenance of a man, which rose out of the waves, not like that of a swimmer, but quite perpendicular, as if it was nailed to the watery mirror, but yet sailing above with the bark. Each wished to show to the other the object of his terror, and each found in the other's face the same horror, the hand and eye, however, pointing in different directions, as if the half laughing, half threatening monster was directly opposite to each. But as they now tried to make each other understand, and all cried: 'See there!-not there!'-all the fright ful faces became visible to each, and the whole stream, around the boat, swarmed with the most horrible forms." a A necklace is snatched from Bertha, by hand which springs out from the water. Undine presents her in place of it, with another which she has received from some watergod. "She then raised in her wet hand, which she had for some time held under the water, a magnificent coral necklace, so beautifully brilliant, that it almost Take this, dazzled the eyes of all who saw it. said she, affectionately presenting it to Bertha; I have found this as a restitution for you, and be not troubled any more, my poor friend.-But the Knight sprang between them. He snatched the beautiful ornament from Undine's hand, buried it again in the flood, and cried, burning with rage: Hast thou then perpetually a connexion with them? Stay with them then, in the name of all wizards, with all thy presents, and leave us human creatures in peace, thou Enchantress!-Poor Undine gazed at him, stupified, but with streaming eyes, the hand still stretched out, with which she had wished so affectionately to convey to Bertha her beautiful present. Then she began to weep more and more bitterly, like an innocent, lovely infant, who is in great trouble. At last she said very faintly: Ah, dear friend, farewell: They shall do nothing to thee; only remain true, that I may keep them away from you. Alas, I must go, must leave this delightful young life. Alas, alas, what hast thou done! O woe, woe! "And she vanished over the side of the rock,she rose up over the stream, she united herself with it, it seemed like two natures, and like one. But she soon wholly disappeared; only the little waves yet whispered round the boat, and they seemed to say: 0 woe, woe! Remain true. Alas! Alas! "Huldbrand however, lay stretched on the deck of the vessel, overcome with tears; and a deep swoon soon veiled in its mild forgetfulness the miserable man." After the wedding of Huldbrand, the vanity of his new bride brings on the fatal catastrophe. "The men put forth all their strength to remove the great stone: one or other of them, occasionally sighed at the recollection that they were destroying the work of their former beloved mistress. But the task was found much lighter than they had apprehended. It seemed, as if some power from within the well assisted them to remove the stone. -The astonished workmen said to each other, it seems as if the water within had become a spouting horn.-And the stone lifted itself up, more and more, and almost without the aid of the labourers, it rolled slowly and with a heavy sound over the pavement. But from the opening of the spring, something like a white column of water rose majestically; they thought at first that they were right, about the spouting horn, till the rising figure assumed the form of a woman veiled in white. in anguish, over her head, and stepped with a slow, She wept bitterly, raised her hands, wringing them solemn pace towards the castle. The servants of the castle ran terrified from the fountain; pale, dumb with horror, stood the bride at the window, surrounded by her attendant maidens. As the figure came close under their room, it looked up to them mournfully, and Bertha thought she could perceive under the veil, Undine's pale features. The weeping figure, however, passed along, heavily, sorrowfully, hesitatingly, as if to the scaffold.-Bertha screamed to them to call the Knight; not one of the chambermaids dared to leave the place they were in, and the bride herself became suddenly still, as if terrified by the sound of her own voice. "Whilst they yet stood, in terror, at the window, motionless as statues, the singular wanderer had reached the castle, ascended the well-known stairs, gone through the well-known hall, still shedding silent tears. Ah, how differently did she once wander through these apartments! "The Knight, in the mean time, was left by his attendants. Half undressed, oppressed with melancholy, he stood before a large mirror; the wax lights burned dimly by his side. He heard a tap at the door, very light, and again it was repeated, very gently. Undine had been wont to knock so before, as a friendly signal. It is all now fancy! said he to himself. I must go to bed.-Thou must indeed, but in a cold one! a voice without seemed to say, and then he saw in the glass, that the door opened, slowly, and the white wanderer entered, and carefully turned the key behind her. They have opened the well, said she, softly, and now, I am here, and thou must die.-He felt in his oppressed heart, that it could not be otherwise, but he covered his face with his hands, and said: Make me not wild with terror, in my dying hour. If thou hast a horrible face under thy veil, lift it not, and take me away without my seeing thee.-Ah, replied the wanderer, wilt thou not then look at me once? I am as fair as when thou wooedst me, on the peninsula.-O, if it were so! said Huldbrand and if I might die by a kiss from thee.-Very willingly, my love, said she. And she threw back her veil, and her beautiful face smiled from under it, with heavenly sweetness. Trembling with love, as well as at the approach of death, the Knight bent towards her. She kissed him, then drew him more closely to her, and wept, as if she would weep away her soul. The tears stood in the eyes of the Knight, and his heart beat, with sad emotion, till his breath at last, left him, and he fell from her beautiful arms, a lifeless body, on the head of the bed. "I have caused him to die by weeping: said she to some servants who met her in the ante-chamber, and walked slowly through the midst of the terrified attendants, who saw her vanish in the fountain." At the funeral, Undine appears for the last time. "Shield and helmet were laid on the coffin, to be sunk with him into the earth, for Huldbrand, Lord of Ringstetten, had died the last of his race; the mourners began their solemn procession, singing their songs of mourning, in the clear, still air. Heilman walked before, bearing a tall crucifix, and the comfortless Bertha followed, leaning on her old father.-All at once they perceived in the midst of the mourning-women, in the widow's train, a snow-white figure closely veiled, and who wrung her hands in great anguish. Those, next to whom she walked, were seized with a mysterious terror, they went backward or sideways, and in consequence of their movements, the others, next whom the white stranger now came, were terrified still more, so that complete disorder began to appear in the whole train of mourners. Some of the women were so bold, as to attempt to speak to the figure, and to command it to leave the procession; but before their view it seemed at once to vanish, and was, nevertheless, seen moving along, with slow majestic steps, in the midst of the followers of the body. At last it came, whilst the attendants still made way for it, close behind Bertha. It went now sence, and it walked very humbly and carefully, bevery slowly, so that she was not aware of its prehind her, undisturbed by any one. "This lasted, until they came to the church yard, and the procession closed around the open grave. Then Bertha perceived the unbidden companion, and commanded her, half in anger, half in terror, to leave the peaceful grave of the Knight. The veiled figure, however, shook her head gently, and raised her hands, as in a humble prayer to Bertha, by which she was much moved; and could not help thinking, with tears, how Undine had endeavoured, on the Danube, to present her with the beautiful coral necklace. Father Heilman, then commanded silence, that they might pray solemnly over the body, on which they were now heaping the earth. Bertha kneeled in silence, and all kneeled, even the grave-diggers, as they had already prepared the place. When they rose, the white stranger had vanished; in the place where she had kneeled, a little fountain swelled from the green turf, clear as |