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twice a week, to give Miss Sullivan a little rest. But, though
everybody was kind and ready to help us, there was only one hand
that could turn drudgery into pleasure. That year I finished
arithmetic, reviewed my Latin grammar, and read three chapters of
Caesar's "Gallic War." In German I read, partly with my fingers and
partly with Miss Sullivan's assistance, Schiller's "Lied von der
Glocke" and "Taucher," Heine's "Harzreise," Freytag's "Aus dem
Staat Friedrichs des Grossen," Riehl's " Fluch Der Schonheit,"
Lessing's "Minna von Barnhelm," and Goethe's " Aus meinem Leben." I
took the greatest delight in these German books, especially
Schiller's wonderful lyrics, the history of Frederick the Great's
magnificent achievements and the account of Goethe's life. I was
sorry to finish " Die Harzreise," so full of happy witticisms and
charming descriptions of vine-clad hills, streams that sing and
ripple in the sunshine, and wild regions, sacred to tradition and
legend, the gray sisters of a long- vanished, imaginative
age?descriptions such as can be given only by those to whom nature
is "a feeling, a love and an appetite." Mr. Gilman instructed me
part of the year in English literature. We read together "As You
Like It," Burke's "Speech on Conciliation with America," and
Macaulay's "Life of Samuel Johnson." Mr. Gilman's broad views of
history and literature and his clever explanations made my work
easier and pleasanter than it could have been had I only read notes
mechanically with the necessarily brief explanations given in the
classes. Burke's speech was more instructive than anyother book on
a political subject that I had ever read. My mind stirred with the
stirring times, and the characters round which the life of two
contending nations centred seemed to move right before me...
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