Of the Year of Tuition of the German Citizen (1790).--Influence of Frederic on German art, philosophy, and historical writing--Poetry flourishes--The aspect of a city in 1790--The coffee gardens and the theatres--Travelling and love of the picturesque--Different sources of morals and activity amongst the nobles, citizens, and peasants--Characteristics of the life of the country nobles--The piety of the country people--Education of the citizens--Advantages of the Latin schools and of the university education--The sentimentality and change in the literary classes from 1750-1790--The Childhood of Ernst Frederic Haupt CHAPTER X. The Period of Ruin (1800).--The condition of Germany--Courts and cities of the Empire--People and armies of the Empire--The emigrants--Effect of the revolution on the Germans--The Prussian State--Its rapid increase--Von Held--Bureaucracy--The army--The Generals--The downfall--Narrative of the Years 1806-1807, by Christoph Wilhelm Heinrich Sethe--His life CHAPTER XI. Rise of the Nation (1807-1815).--Sorrowful condition of the people in the year 1807--The first signs of rising strength--Hatred of the French Emperor--Arming of Prussia--Character and importance of the movement of 1813--Napoleon's flight--Expedition of the French to Russia in 1812, and return in 1813--The Cossacks--The people rise--General enthusiasm--The volunteer Jaegers and patriotic gifts--The Landwehr and the Landsturm--The first combat--Impression of the war on the citizens--The enemy in the city--The course of the war--The celebration of victory CHAPTER XII. Illness and Recovery (1815-1848).--The time of reaction--Hopelessness of the German question--Discontent and exhaustion of the Prussians--Weakness of the educated classes in the north of Germany--The development of practical activity--The South Germans and their village tales--Description of a Village School by Karl Mathy CONCLUSION.--The Hohenzollerns and the German citizens PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE. Second Series. CHAPTER VII. AWAY FROM THE GARRISON. (1700.) A shot from the alarm-gun! Timidly does the citizen examine the dark corners of his house to discover whether any strange man be hid there. The peasant in the field stops his horses to consider whether he would wish to meet with any fugitive, and earn capture-money, or whether he should save some desperate man, in spite of the severe punishment with which every one was threatened who enabled a deserter to escape. Probably he will let the fugitive run away, though in his power, for in his secret soul he has a fellow feeling for him, nay, even admires his daring.