SEE Crump, Irving. HEBEL, MRS.

J. W. SEE Hebel, Mabel.

HEBEL, J. WILLIAM, ed. Poetry of the English renaissance, 1509-1600.

Selected from early editions and manuscripts, by J. William Hebel and Hoyt H. Hudson.

Mabel Hebel & Margaret Dille Hudson (W); 4Dec56; R181645. HEBEL, MABEL.

Mabel Hebel & Margaret Dille Hudson (W); 4Dec56; R181645. HEBEL, MABEL.

SEE Hebel, J. William, ed. HECHT, BEN.

SEE Hebel, J. William, ed. HUEBNER, EMMY S., joint author.

SEE Hebel, J. William, ed. HUEBNER, EMMY S., joint author.

To Hebel belongs the merit of having bent one of the harshest of German dialects to the uses of poetry.

Hebel, however, frankly exclaimed,"You certainly mean the thievish propensity.

Hebel lost his mother in his thirteenth year, but was fortunate in possessing generous patrons, who contributed enough to the slender means he inherited to enable him to enter the Gymnasium at Carlsruhe.

Hebel may have felt that rank is but the guinea-stamp, but he never would have dared to speak it out with the defiant independence of Burns.

Jean Paul (Richter) was one of Hebel's first and warmest admirers.

He instantly seized, weighed in the fine balance of his ordered mind, and valued with nice discrimination, those qualities of Hebel's genius which had but stirred the splendid chaos of Richter with an emotion of vague delight.

Hebel, however, possesses the additional meritno slight one, eitherof giving faithful expression to the thoughts, emotions, and passions of the simple people among whom his childhood was passed.

We prefer to let our readers judge for themselves concerning this feature of Hebel's poetry.

These singularities of the dialect render the translation of Hebel's poems into a foreign language a work of great difficulty.

The tongue of Burns can be spoken only by a born Scot; and our Yankee, which is rather a grotesque English than a dialect, is unfortunately so associated with the coarse and the farcicalLowell's little poem of "'Zekel's Courtship" being the single exceptionthat it seems hardly adapted to the simple and tender fancies of Hebel.

The opening poem is a charmingly wayward idyl, called "The Meadow," (Die Wiese,) the name of a mountain-stream, which, rising in the Feldberg, the highest peak of the Black Forest, flows past Hausen, Hebel's early home, on its way to the Rhine.

The daring with which Hebel countrifies (or, rather, farmerizes, to translate Goethe'sword more literally) the spirit of natural objects, carrying his personifications to that point where the imaginative borders on the grotesque, is perhaps his strongest characteristic.

Hebel's narrative poems abound with the wayward pranks of a fancy which seems a little too restive to be entirely controlled by his artistic sense; but they possess much dramatic truth and power.

The later years of Hebel's life quietly passed away in the circle of his friends at Carlsruhe.

In society Hebel was a universal favorite.

A prominent peak among the mountains which inclose the valley of his favorite "Meadow" has been solemnly christened "Hebel's Mount"; and a flower of the Forestthe Anthericum of Linnaeusnow figures in German botanies as the Hebelia Alemannica.