Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XV. A PEKIOD OF CHANGE. That portion of Germany, which was the most remote from the scenes of the late wars, was naturally the one the best adapted for an artistic tour; and Weber, consequently, on quitting Prague, turned his face in the direction of Bavaria. He had many friends there, whose companionship he was anxious to enjoy. So, on the 18th June, he found himself once more in Munich, where he was received with open arms by his faithful Barmann, and lodged in his house. His former pleasant intercourse in the Bavarian capital was quickly resumed in friendly families. It was one of the characteristics of Weber's affectionate and sympathetic nature, that, when separated from those he loved, he strove by every means to connect them as intimately as possible in his daily life. He had parted from the object of his devoted attachment "more in sorrow than in anger;" and one of the strongest evidences of this peculiar characteristic may be found in the pains he took in his letters to Caroline Brandt to describe to her every detail of the chamber in which he was lodged, and thus to associate her with every object around him. "I am so charmed to find," he wrote to her, "that we generally write to each other on the very same day. It is so pleasant to think that at the same moment as myself, perhaps, you are occupied at your well-known table. In future let me know the very hour, as well as the day, on which you write. But you cannot tell where I am sitting. Call your fancy to aid, whilst I make you a plan of the little room I occupy." Following these words comes a plan of his chamber, in which every window and door, every article of furniture, "the chair on which I sit, the table at which I write," were marked with scrupulous exactitude....
