REMINISCENCES OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH REMINISCENCES OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH BY GEORGE BRANDES NEW YORK DUFFIELD COMPANY 1906 Copyright, 1906, 63 Dwfold Company Published, September, 1906 CONTENTS DISCOVERING THE WORLD PAGE First Impressions Going to Bed My Name Fresh Elements School The King Town and Country The Kings Gardens The Friendly World Inimical Forces The World Widens The Theatre Prog ress Warlike Instincts School Adventures Polite Accomplish ments My Relations I BOYHOODS YEARS Our House Its Inmates My Paternal Grandfather My Maternal Grandfather School and Home Farum My Instructors A Fore taste of Life Contempt for the Masters My Mother The Mystery of Life My First Glimpse of Beauty The Head Master Religion My Standing in School Self-esteem An Instinct for Literature Private Reading Heines Buck der Lieder A Broken Friendship… 29 TRANSITIONAL YEARS School Boy Fancies Religion Early Friends Daemonic Theory A West Indian Friend My Acquaintance Widens Politics The Reaction ary Party The David Family A Student Society An Excursion to Slesvig Temperament The Law Hegel Spinoza Love for Hu manity A Religious Crisis Doubt Personal Immortality Renun ciation 67 ADOLESCENCE Julius Lange A New Master Inadaption to the Law The University Prize Competition An Interview with the Judges Meeting of Scan dinavian Students The Paludan-Miillers Bjornstjerne Bjornson CONTENTS PAGE Magdalene Thoresen The Gold Medal The Death of King Fred erik VII The Political Situation My Master of Arts Examination War Admlssus cum laude praedpua Academical Attention Lec turing Music Nature A Walking Tour In Print Philosophical Life in Denmark Death of Ludwig David Stockholm nz FIRST LONG SOJOURN ABROAD MyWish to See Paris Dualism in our Modern Philosophy A Journey Impressions of Paris Lessons in French Mademoiselle Mathilde Taine 163 EARLY MANHOOD Feud in Danish Literature Riding Youthful Longings On the Rack My First Living Erotic Reality An Impression of the Miseries of Modern Coercive Marriage Researches on the Comic Dramatic Criticism A Trip to Germany Johanne Louise Heiberg Magda lene Thoresen Rudolph Bergh The Sisters Spang A Foreign Ele ment The Woman Subject Orla Lehmann M. Goldschmidt Pub lic Opposition A Letter from Bjdrnstjerne Bjornson Hard Work. . 178 SECOND LONGER STAY ABROAD Hamburg My Second Fatherland Ernest Hello Le Docteur Noir Taine Renan Marcelin Gleyre Taines Friendship Renan at Home Philarete Chasles Reminiscences Le Theatre Fran ais Coquelin Bernhaidt Beginnings of Main Currents The Tuileries John Stuart Mill London Philosophical Studies London and Paris Compared Antonio Gallenga and His Wife Don Juan Prim Na poleon III London Theatres Gladstone and Disraeli in Debate Paris on the Eve of War First Reverses Flight from Paris Ge neva, Switzerland Italy Pasquale Villari Vinnie Reams Friend ship Roman Fever Henrik Ibsens Influence Scandinavians in Rome 233 CONTENTS FILOMENA PAGE Italian Landladies The Carnival The Moccoli Feast Filomenas Views 343. SECOND LONGER STAY ABROAD Continued Reflections on the Future of Denmark Conversations with. Gulseppe Saredo Frascati Native Beauty New Susceptibilities Georges Noufflards Influence The Sistine Chapel and Michael Angelo Raphaels Loggias A Radiant Spring 369 REMINISCENCES OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH DISCOVERING THE WORLD First Impressions Going to Bed My Name Fresh Elements School The King Town and Country The Kings GardensThe Friendly World Inimical Forces The World Widens The Theatre Progress Warlike Instincts School Adventures Polite Accomplishments My Relations. I. HE was little and looked at the world from below. All that happened, went on over his head. Every one looked down to him. But the big people possessed the enviable power of lift ing him to their own height or above it…