Max Muller's Father

My father belonged to the post-Goethe periori, thongh Goethe (died 1832) survived him. He was born iu 1794, aud died in 1827, and yet iu that short lifo he established a lasting repntation not onJy as a soholar, but as a most popular poet. His best known poems are the "Grieoheiilieder, " the Greek songs which hc wrote dnring the Greek war of indcpendence. These Greek songs, in which his love of the aueient Greeks is mingled with his adiniratiou for héroes such as Kanaris, Marcos Bozzaris and others who helped to shake off the Turkish yoke, produced a deep impression all over Germany, perhaps beoause they breathed the spirit of freedom and patriotism, which was then systematically repressed iu Germauy itsolf. The Greeks never forgot the services remlered by hira iu Germauy, as by Lord Byron in England, iu rousing a feeling of indignation against the Tnrk, and as the marble for Lord Byron's monument in London was sent by soine Greek adwirers of the great poet, the Greek parliarnent voted a shipload of Penteliaau marble for the national monnnient erected to my father iu Dessau. Hjs lyrical poems also are well known all over Germany, particularly the cycles of the "Schone Mullerin" and the "Winterrfiise,!' both so marvelonsly set to music by Schubert and others. He certainly had caught the troe tone of the poetry of the Germán people, and many of his poems have become national property, being sung by thousands who do not know wliose poems they aro siugíng. -