England and America have much to learn from him--the value of long, careful, and unremitting study; the advantage of being thoroughly familiar with the scenes and types of character depicted; the charm of an almost unequaled simplicity and directness. He possessed the rare gift of being able to envelop every topic that he touched with an atmosphere of elegance and distinction. His productions are not ephemeral, but are of the kind that will endure. * * * * * _GUSTAV FREYTAG_ * * * * * #THE JOURNALISTS# DRAMATIS PERSONÆ BERG, _retired Colonel_. IDA, _his daughter_. ADELAIDE RUNECK. SENDEN, _landed proprietor_. _ PROFESSOR OLDENDORF, _editor-in-chief_. | | CONRAD BOLZ, _editor_. | | BELLMAUS, _on the staff._. | | KÄMPE, _on the staff_. } of the newspaper | _The Union_. KÖRNER, _on the staff_. | | PRINTER HENNING, _owner_. | | MILLER, _factotum_. _| _ BLUMENBERG, _editor_. | } of the newspaper SCHMOCK, _on the staff_. _| _Coriolanus_. PIEPENBRINK, _wine merchant and voter_. LOTTIE, _his wife_. BERTHA, _their daughter_. KLEINMICHEL _citizen and voter_. FRITZ, _his son_. JUDGE SCHWARZ. _A foreign ballet-dancer._ KORB, _secretary for Adelaide's estate_. CARL, _the Colonel's man-servant._ _A waiter._ _Club-guests._ _Deputations of citizens_. _Place of action: A provincial capital._ THE JOURNALISTS[1] (1853) TRANSLATED BY ERNEST F. HENDERSON, PH.D., L.H.D. ACT I SCENE I _A summer parlor in the_ COLONEL'S _house. Handsome furnishings. In the centre of rear wall an open door, behind it a verandah and garden; on the sides of rear wall large windows. Right and left, doors; on the right, well in front, a window. Tables, chairs, a small sofa_. IDA _is sitting in front on the right reading a book. The_ COLONEL _enters through centre door with an open box in his hand in which are dahlias_. COLONEL. Here, Ida, are the new varieties of dahlias our gardener has grown. You'll have to rack your brains to find names for them. Day after tomorrow is the Horticultural Society meeting, when I am to exhibit and christen them. IDA. This light-colored one here should be called the "Adelaide." COLONEL. Adelaide Buneck, of course. Your own name is out of the running, for as a little dahlia you have long been known to the flower-trade. IDA. One shall be called after your favorite writer, "Boz." COLONEL.