And here is the place to recall the periodical which was so important for Germany, the Deutscher Merkur.

Moreover, men of worth quickly gathered about him, and this alliance of preëminent litterateurs was so active that the Merkur during a period of several years may be employed as a textbook of our literary history.

The quality which maintained the value and the dignity of the Deutscher Merkur for many years was its editor's innate liberality.