RECOLLECTIONS OF MY CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
BY
GEORGE BRANDES
AUTHOR OF "WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE," ETC.
First Impressions--Going to Bed--My Name--Fresh Elements--School--TheKing--Town and Country--The King's Gardens--The Friendly World--InimicalForces--The World Widens--The Theatre--Progress--Warlike Instincts--School Adventures--Polite Accomplishments--My Relations
Our House--Its Inmates--My Paternal Grandfather--My Maternal Grandfather--School and Home--Farum--My Instructors--A Foretaste of Life--Contemptfor the Masters--My Mother--The Mystery of Life--My First Glimpse ofBeauty--The Head Master--Religion--My Standing in School--Self-esteem--An Instinct for Literature--Private Reading--Heine's Buch derLieder--A Broken Friendship
School Boy Fancies--Religion--Early Friends--Daemonic Theory--AWest Indian Friend--My Acquaintance Widens--Politics--The ReactionaryParty--The David Family--A Student Society--An Excursion to Slesvig--Temperament--The Law--Hegel--Spinoza--Love for Humanity--A ReligiousCrisis--Doubt--Personal Immortality--Renunciation
Julius Lange--A New Master--Inadaption to the Law--The University PrizeCompetition--An Interview with the Judges--Meeting of ScandinavianStudents--The Paludan-Müllers--Björnstjerne Björnson--MagdaleneThoresen--The Gold Medal--The Death of King Frederik VII--The PoliticalSituation--My Master of Arts Examination--War--Admissus cum laudepraecipua--Academical Attention--Lecturing--Music--Nature--A WalkingTour--In Print--Philosophical Life in Denmark--Death of Ludwig David--Stockholm
My Wish to See Paris--Dualism in our Modern Philosophy--AJourney--Impressions of Paris--Lessons in French--Mademoiselle Mathilde--Taine
Feud in Danish Literature--Riding--Youthful Longings--On the Rack--MyFirst Living Erotic Reality--An Impression of the Miseries of ModernCoercive Marriage--Researches on the Comic--Dramatic Criticism--A Tripto Germany--Johanne Louise Heiberg--Magdalene Thoresen--Rudolph Bergh--The Sisters Spang--A Foreign Element--The Woman Subject--Orla Lehmann--M. Goldschmidt--Public Opposition--A Letter from Björnstjerne Björnson--Hard Work
Hamburg--My Second Fatherland--Ernest Hello--Le Docteur Noir--Taine--Renan--Marcelin--Gleyre--Taine's Friendship--Renan at Home--Philarète Chasles' Reminiscences--Le Théâtre Français--Coquelin--Bernhardt--Beginnings of Main Currents--The Tuileries--JohnStuart Mill--London--Philosophical Studies--London and Paris Compared--Antonio Gallenga and His Wife--Don Juan Prim--Napoleon III--LondonTheatres--Gladstone and Disraeli in Debate--Paris on the Eve of War--First Reverses--Flight from Paris--Geneva, Switzerland--Italy--PasqualeVillari--Vinnie Ream's Friendship--Roman Fever--Henrik Ibsen'sInfluence--Scandinavians in Rome
Italian Landladies--The Carnival--T