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VIENNA. Herald Special Report from the Austrian Capital. The Prince of Wales and Prince Arthur Visit the Prater. INSPECTING THE EXHIBITION BUILDING. A Distinguished Company Accompa- ny Their Royal Highnesses. Herald Correspondents Presented and Ad- dressed by the British Heir Apparent. Cold and Squally Weather on the Danube. THE EVE OF JUBILEE. Aspect of the City Before the Open- ing of the Exhibition, Boyal Mightiness and Serene Transparencies Waiting for Daybreak. THE IMPERIAL BALL. A Glorious May Day Looked for in the Hapsburg Annals. Reflections on the Expositions of London and Paris. ROYAL CONTRASTS. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert Open the Hyde Park Fair in *51. Napoleon and Eugenie Unlock the Champ de Mars Edifice in 1867. ‘The Austrian Ausstellung Still in an Un- finished Condition. TELEGRAM TO THE NEW YORK HERALD. The following special despatch to the Heratp has been received from Mr. Edmund Yates, one of our correspondents at Vienna: — Vrenna, April 30, 1873. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales visited the Prater and subsequently the Inter- national Exhibition building this afternoon. ‘He was accompanied by Prince Arthur and at- tended by the British Ambassador at Vienna, Sir Anthony Rothschild, Sir Richard Wallace, Lord Cowper and Mr. Brassey, M. P., and was shown through the vast edifice by Mr. Cun- liffe Owen, Secretary to the British Commis- sion. HERALD CORRESPONDENTS PRESENTED TO THE PRINCE. ‘The Herat correspondents were presented to His Royal Highness previous to his departure from the grounds, and courteously addressed by him. THE WEATHER. ‘The weather to-day has been squally and cold, PROGRESS WITH THE BUILDINGS. Immense progress has been made on the great Industrial Palace building during the past week. For several days past there have been at least ten thousand workpeople em- ployed on it during the day, while four thou- gand others have been kept steadily at work on it throughout the night, thus keeping upa perfect pandemonium of noise and rattle from morning till night and from sunset to sunrise. HINTS TO VISITORS. It will be the ond of June before the Exhi- Dition can be seen in full blast and as the au- thorities intend to make it appear. SEVEN THOUSAND CAR LOADS OF PACKED. To show the immense quantity of goods as yet packed in the exhibitors’ cases I will state there are now 7,000 laden baggage trucks be- tween Vienna and the frontier, whith, at the utmost, can only be unloaded at the rate of 200 cars a day. From this the visitor can better judge how soon to visit the Exhibition. CIVILIAN CHARACTER OF THE OPENING, Iam informed by Baron Schwarz-Seuborn hat there will be no troops present to give éclat to the opening ceremony, which is to be purely of a civilian and international char- acter. AUSTRIAN HOSPITALITY AND COURTESY. The principal towns of Austria have offered fnvitations to numerous distinguished stran- gers to be present when the Emperor shall formally open the building to-morrow. We are rapidly running through the few remaining preliminary hours, and ere the hands have made once more their circle of the Gial I shall be flashing to you the news that fhe great fact is accomplished, and that the Vienna Exhibition, intended to be the great- estever known, and, notwithstanding certain shortcomings capable of rectification, fulfil- ling its promise, has been proclaimed open to tho world. : HE EVE OF sUptune, Just ot this momcgt all those on- GOODS UN- ae —————— * <a NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, MAY 1, 1873—TRIPLE SHEET. 3 nected with the enterprise—the bees and the | glesey, who left one of his legs behind him on | suthor ts happily blended with admiration for the | celved by: the men of thonght ana stience | every lover is endowed by Louiso Mihibaeh # book, It ran through six editions in three years, | in Prussia and Austria, Among these were his drones, the patient toilers and the pleasure seekers, the exponents of their own skill and industry, who have been silently laboring for months to win a modicum of fame, and the horde of half-interested, halt-supercilious lookers-on, whose numbers are swelled by every train and every steamboat—are en- joying an interval of rest. This is on the reouler pour mieux sauter principle, and to-mor- row will try the patience and the strength and what racing men call the ‘‘staying power” of the best of us. MEANWHILE THE CITY SLEEPS, Perched up in my eyry at the Golden Lamb, elevated as high as was Professor Teufels- drickh in his watch tower at Weissnichtwo, I hear but faint and distant echoes of ihe now’ infrequent traffic. Such rumbling as there is proceeds from the wheels of private carriages or heavily laden business wagons, for there is not a hired vehicle which has not been en- gaged for to-morrow, andall the lohnicutschers and the drivers of the fiacres have taken their vehicles home at.a comparatively early hour to give the poor beasts some needful rest as prep- aration for their hard work, and to revel themselves in anticipation of their golden gain. THE GREAT AND MIGHTY TEMPORARILY FALLEN. Their Highnesses and Mightinesses dwelling at the Grand Hotel, and their Serene Transpa- rencies sheltering in the hospitable bosom of the Rémischer Kaiser, are all asleep, The cafés are deserted; the last wasp-waisted white-coated officer has pocketed his double eyeglass, taken a final pull at his lacquered mustaches and clanked out of Daum’s, and at Neuner’s the rattle of the chessmen is stilled. None but the waiters sweeping up and clearing away are left at Dreher’s Bier Keller, and though there is, I believe, to- night a BALL AT THE IMPERIAL REDOUTEN SAAL the attendance was not expected to be large. Among the thousands whom this great city embraces in her wide-stretching arm there are probably few at this moment whose waking thoughts, whose dreaming fancies are not con- nected with the ceremony of to-morrow—the opening of the Exhibition. WHITIIER TO THE RESCUE. Says Mr. John G. Whittier, in his lovely ballad of “Maud Muller’:— - Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these, “It might have been.’’ Perhaps so; but what does Mr. Whittier think of these :— It has been once or twice before? NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN. Ivery much doubt whether the bitterness experienced at the non-fulfilment of a possi- ble happiness is greater than the regret springing from the knowledge that to us there is no novelty in the delight which others are anticipating. ‘The thing that hath been it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be 3 and there is no new thing under. the sun,’’ were the words of the wisest of men. VIENNA'S GLORIOUS MAY DAY. To-morrow we open our great Exhibition! Connu, mon cher? I have seen the opening of two great exhibitions. Roll away, ye mists which for a score of years have shrouded the scenes of my youth, while I, Ulysses, dis- course to Telemachus and his young friends about them!. ‘ ANTICIPATIONS OF LONDONERS IN 1851. We had been anticipating the opening day (May 1, 1851,) for months; every print shop in London teemed with pic- tures of the Great Exhibition building in Hyde Park; comic artists had been en- gaged in caricatures of the wonderful foreign- ers expected to visit us; comic authors had written farces and stories setting forth the miseries consequent upon the enormous influx of strangers, and now the day had come and people eagerly seized the newspapers to see that nothing had occurred which might cause any alteration in the programme. No! all that had been set forth was to be strictly ad- hered to; the journals were filled with articles relating to the Exhibition, and the Times con- tained A MAY-DAY ODE, BY THACKERAY, the first verse of which ran thus: — But yesterday a naked sod, The dandies sneered from rotten row, And cantered o’er it, to and fro; And see, 'tis done ! As though ‘twere by a wizard’s rod A blazing arch of lucid glass Leaps like a fountain trom the grass To meet the sunt In the ode, too, there was a verse full of the kindly feeling which Thackeray had for Amer- ica:— Our brethren cross the Atlantic tides, Loading the gallant decks, which once Roared a defiance to our guns, With peaceful store; Symbol of peace, their vessel rides! Over English waves float Star and Stripe, And firm their friendly anchors gripe The farther shore! THE WEATHER. ‘The weather, a most important element in our sight-seeing, was anything but settled. Between eleven and twelve there were some smart showers, but just before noon the sun burst forth and the rest of the day was radiant. ‘While we who had taken up our places inside the building were awaiting the arrival of the Queen we heard a tremendons burst of cheering, 26 an old man, with snow-white hair and eagle beak, walked slowly up the nave. WELLINGTON. AND ANGLESEY IN COMPANY This was the great Duke of Wellington, and this day was the eighty-seoond anniversary of hris birth. He stopped for‘an instant to speak to another veteran warrior, tho Marquis 9f An- | with satnovular esteem herein a king for Mg the field of Waterloo. Both these old gentle- -Was published and largely sold in America, and in “Citizens of Cultivated Minds, a Book for Thought- ‘men seemed amazingly astonished at the sud- | 1866 was translated into French for the Révue dex} fal People of the Middle Classes” (Gebildete den appearance before them of a Chinese man- deux Mondes, Mr. Yates’ pen was new never idle, “Pages in Waiting, Burger, Buch far denkenden-Mittelstand), ‘The Besides, there are thousands of persons in Germany who would never have looked at an hig- torical work had they not first been interested in the glowing romances of Loutse Muhibach, In sunning the Gauntlet,” “The | Jews and Modern Literature” (Das Judenthum and | her later Works her style, although ornate and darin, with a tail of fabulous length. He sa- | Business of Pleasure,” “Land at Last,” “Kissing | die Neuste Literatur), “Peet and Merchant” (Dick- | highly wrought, has always been pure, and the luted them both in the Oriental style and with the gravest manner, and then proceeded to walk about with perfect composure and non- chalance, speaking to no one, but apparently on the best terms with everybody. He was supposed to be a distinguished REPRESENTATIVE OF THE FLOWERY LAND, and when the diplomatic body formed in order he was seized upon by the master of the cere- monies to take part in the procession. Some days afterwards it was discovered that this Oriental potentate was one of the persons en- gaged on a Chinese junk then being exhibited in the river Thames, ENTRANCE OF THE QUEEN. Exactly at twelve o'clock a flourish of tram- pets announced the entrance of the Queen, and the whole audience standing up cheered her to the echo. The little Prince of Wales, then only ten years old, walked by his mother’s side, while his sister, the Princess Royal, now the mother of ‘Emperors-to-be,’’ held her father’s hand. That father, Prince Albert—not the stout, bald-headed man he was in later days, but slim and romantic looking, like the “over in a farce— was the moving spirit of the Exhibi- tion, and on him, as chairman of the Royal Commissioners, it devolved to read to the Queen the report of their proceedings, When this had been done and the blessing pronounced, the Exhibition was declared open to the public. There never was its equal! It was the first-—which was a great point—and it was the prettiest; a result to which its very unsubstantiality, its light and airy fabric of iron and glass, greatly contributed, THE PARIS EXHIBITION. Very different was the aspect of things six- teen years later, and in another country, when, on the Ist of April, 1867, after a hand-to-hand combat with various municipal authorities who objected to everything and everybody, I fought my way into the Universal Exposition in the Champs de Mars, Paris, and took up my station among the British Commission. Ex- cepting the British section, things were ter- ribly behindhand. All the previous day, Sun- day, the various nationalities were busily at work, ‘but the result was not satisfactory, THE AMERICAN COURT was complete in its decoration, and the coun- ters were ready, but few of the huge packing cases were emptied of their contents, Spain exhibited a café, and Russia a restaurant, while Italy and Portugal had literally nothing toshow. At twoo’clock the drums beat to arms and the air rung with shouts of “Vive U Empereur !”” NAPOLEON AND EUGENIE OPEN THE BUILDING. Attended by his outriders, in the imperial liveries of green and gold, Napoléon descended from his open carriage, and, with the Empress leaning on his arm, entered the building. He was in plain evening dress, with the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor as his sole decoration. At the Emperor's elbow was M. Rouher, close behind the Empress stood the Princess Mathilde, then came a swarm of equerries and chamberlains and at- fact in connection with that triumphal pro- cession was the absence of military uniform. And it was but a poor performance at that! OMINOUS WARNINGS. The imperial party made the circuit of the place and left within an hour of their arrival, and most of the thirty-five thousand people who, it was calculated, were present, took their departure immediately afterwards. The incompletion of the building frightened them away, and it was not until two or three weeks afterwards that the Exhibition could be looked upon as in full work. Absit amen! EDMUND YATES. OUR VIENNA CORRESPONDENTS. Sketches of the Lives and Works of Edmund “Yates, John Russell Young, Berthold Auerbach and Louise Muehlbach. EDMUND YATES. Sketch of His Career as Civil Servant, Novelist, Magazine Editor, Journalist and Lecturer. The gentleman whose name heads this notice was born in London in July, 1831. His parents were both well-known adornments of the metro- politan stage, and the young Yates grew up to manhood amid ali the artistic surroundings which can influence and shape an opening mind. He ob- tained a position in the English civil service, and was assigned to the General Post Office at St. Mar- tin'’s LeGrand. ‘ihe numdrum of the civil service did not quench the young man’s desire to seek more ambitious walks of life, and with @ talent for writing and one for the stage, which were hereditary, he successfully battled with the inclination to a life of yawning and dozing, which settles gradually over Her Majesty's civil servants generally. When twenty-three years of age he published his first book, # clever sketch of London habitudes, under the title, “My Haunts and Their Frequenters.” A fluent, easy style of composition, combined with a keen observation and marked humor, was discernible in this lit- tle work, and with the ripening of years it has remained the chief characteristic of his writings. He became a busy writer and contributed to many of the London journals. He still retained his civil service position and was promoted in time to the chiefship of the Missing Letter Department. In 1861 he published “After Office Hours," which soon ran to a second edition. Wis first essay at novel writing saw the light in 1868, “For Better er Worse, a Romance of the Affections,” was well greeted by the press. In 1864 he published serially in Temple Bar* “Broken to Harnesss a story of English Domestic Life.” This at once procured "for Mr, Yates hith rank among British‘vovelists, and the distinct ‘Ndividuallty stamped upon the book caused his worXe since then to be regarded the Rod,” “The Forlorn Hope,” “The Black Sheep,” The Rock Ahead,” “Wrecked in Port,’ came from his pen, not as his sole works for the period following 1864, but between the spells of other literary and oficial work, Princtpally novels of society, they are photographs of lite aa itis, In conjunction with the late Mr. Brough he edited Our Miscellany irom 1856 to 1858. In 1860 he edited the correspondence of Charles Mathews. He edited Temple Bar magazine until 1867, which he resigned for @ sim- flar position on Tinsley’s Magazine, From the time Charles Dickens commenced the publication of Al the Year Round, up to the present time, Mr. Yates has been a contributor, A‘ class of writing by which he was well known to the public for many years, and in which his gossipy style revelled in all its playful force, was exhibited in his papers signed “Flaneur,”’ published every Mon- day in the London Morning Star. For several years the “Flaneur’ appeared, and in 1867 tendants, and, perhaps, the most noticeable | it was discontinued before the demise of that journal ef the Manchester scioel of politica, To the Evening Star he also contributed sketches of London life signed Q. Himself @ dramatic author, he was for six years dramatic critic of the London Datly News. In obedience to the general tendency of literary men to the lecture field, he took to the platform. His first appearance was in a sketch ef the “Volun- teers,” @ subject thenexcessively popular on ac- count of the recent formation of the English citt- zenarmy. Mr. Yates belonged to one of these amateur regiments, the “Inns of Court,” if we mis- take not, @ crack corps, which, on account of the number of lawyers in the ranks, was dubbed “The Devil's Own.” His success as a lecturer was very great and the cultivated audiences he @rew last year in this country to hear his later efforts are a guarantee of his position as a graceful humorist. In view of the ever-increasing demands on his time he some time since resigned his position in the English civil service, and the Missing Let- ters Department was given to another chief, Mr Yates is in his forty-second year, and from the Tobustness of his physique and the fresh flow of his spirits we may presume that the world will for many years to-come receive the benefit of his observations, his fancies and his ideas, JOHN RUSSELL YOUNG. Sketch of His Life and Newspaper Career. . Mr. John Russell Yeung was born in Philadelphia in 1841, He was educated at the High School in that city, an institution which trained a number of well-known journalists. From his earliest boy- hood Mr, Young showed a strong inclination for the journalistic profession, and he entered upon his newsaper career almost before he was in his “teens” by becoming copyholder to the proof- reader in the office of the Philadelphia Press, His aptness and intelligence soon secured him promo- tion, and he rose rapidly in his profession, so rapidly, fndeed, that in 186’, when he was only Wrenty years old, he was the principal war cor- respondent of his paper. His descriptions of marches, battles and retreats brought him imme- diate reputation, and Colonel Forney recognized his vigor and ability by making him the managing editor of the Press after a very short service in the field and in Washington as the managing editor of the Chronicle. This position he held till near the close of the war, but was absent six months with General Banks on the Red River cam- paign, He resigned in 1865 to accept @ responsible place in the banking house of Jay Cooke & Co., in this city. While work- ing in the dull routine of business life his journal- istic instinct did not desert him and he contributed many articles to the daily and weckly press. One of these, which appeared in the Tribune, attracted the attention ef Mr. Greeley, who sought out the young writer and offered him a place on the paper, Mr. Young accepted the offer, and, after writing leading articles for a year, he was chosen, in June, 1866, managing editor of that journal,a place at that time of vast responsibility and power, as it was Mr, Grecley’s habit to allow his executive om- cer great discretion in the management of the paper. The young journalist showed unusual ad- ministrative ability, and succeeded in making the paper what no partisan journal ever was before—a newspaper as well a8 aparty organ. He was an | apt newsgatherer as well as a strong writer, and | his keen scent after the news of tne day made bis career a3 manager of ® metropolitan journal exceedingly marked and bril- Jiant. After holding the position four | years he resigned, and the next year he estab- lished a journal of his ewn—the New York Stand- ard—which he edited till last year. Mr. Young also founded the Philadelphia Evening Star, the most successful pefny paper in the country, and directed it for some years after coming to this city. The Standard was not 4 success, partly because it was ,started with insufficient capital, but more es- pecially because it was begun asa party organ. | It is creditable to Mr. Young, however, that he | never drew any money for his personal wants from the revenues of the paper, supplying his own | heeds by contributions to other journals, particu- larly the HeRaLp. During the last three years he has contributed almost continuously to this paper. Last year he became @ member of the HERALD staf, and was sent abroad as one of our corre- | Spondents on the Continent of Europe. Mr. Young visited Europe in the Winter of 1871-2, and was in Paris during the sway of the Commune, witness- ing many of the notable events of that remark- able episode. The letter to his journal (the Standard) ,describing what’ he saw was never before surpassed as newspaper writ- ing. The character of his writing 18 now more mature than at any previous period of his life, and his letters are characterized by many strong and striking qualities. He brings to his work wide and profeund reading, Carlyle, Macaulay and Thackeray being his favorites, Even his admirers think they find traces of these writers in his style; but it is plain that a journalist, who patiently studies three authors so thoroughly dis- similar in the matter of thought and manner of expression, has too much individuality ever to be- come a mere imitator, either consciously or uncen- sciously. Mr. Young’s style is his own, and it is a ism and the needs and tastes of American readers. At one time Mr. Young evinced some personal interest in polities, amd he was a delegate to the Republican State Convention in 1868 and again in 1870, His visit to Europe in 1871 was on account of an appointment from President Grant, who desired him to go abroad to assist in placing the new five | per cent loan and to undertake @ secret mission | for the State Department. He is also one of the | honorary commissioners to the Expesition at | Vienna, BERTHOLD AUVERBACZ. Life and Works of the Dickens of Ger-. many—The Author of the Black Forest Village Tales and Other Works. Contemporaneous German literature will be well represented in Vienna during the International Exnibitiom,. Among those directly connected with this branch of national education is the well-known popular author Herr Berthold Auerbach, a gentle- man of rare culture, uncommonly fine appearance, singular sweetness of disposition, and possessing extraordinary social and conversational powers. Like Charles Dickens, Mr. Auerbach first came into repute by the publication of @ work that was intended only for one nationality; but the immense scope of imagination and breadth of conception betrayed throughout its pages, in addition to the humorons and interesting method of treating his subjects, attracted the attention of other nations outside of Germany, and in lesa than a year alter the appearance of his “Black Forest | his work Village Tales” he had the gratification of seeing translated into seyeral European languages. His previous efforts, though not style peculiarly well adapted to progressive journal- | | terund Kaufmann) and “Spinoza,” a biography With translations. After the “Black Forest Village 1845, entitled the “Godfather” (Gevattersmann). In this work he appears to have adopted the Plan ef Franklin in “Poor Richard's Almanac,” treating all the great and smail events of the Period in @ manner so naive and celloquial a8 to attract the lowest, while the vivacity and humor displayed throughout commanded the attention of the loitiest minds. His “Mrs, Professor” (Die kraw Professorin), “German Evenings; (Deutsche Abende), @ series of travelling and political sketches; “Diary, written at Vienna, beginning with the Cabinet of Latour and ending with that of Windischgratz” (Tagebuch aus Wien von Latour bis auf Windischgriitz) were all received with favor, “Prau Professorin” being especially funny and full of comic accuracies reflective of the absurdities of the time. The “Vienna Diary” was thought weil of in Great Britain, and was subsequently translated into the English language. In 1850 he published a tragedy entitled “Andreas Hofer,” which was subjected to some severe criticism by the German press on‘ account of the alleged ex- tremes of the author. While in Stuttgart, early in 1867 he published his ‘“Baarfussle,” a work that in point of characteristic humor and simplicity equalled the “Black Forest Village Tales,” and added greatly te the fortune and geod reputation of the writer. He has since published several other works of merit. Mr. Auerbach has taken great in- terest in the production of works of fiction during the past forty years, his own pen constantly aiding the periodical publisher, for which his versatile talent and remarkable adaptness specially qualily him. His later works seem as fresh and resplendent as the first that appeared from his pen. 1t was re- marked of Charles Dickens and Lord Brougham, and it has also been said of Mr. Disraeli, that their style became dimmed as they advanced in years— that their latest books, while containing know- ledge in the riper form, nevertheless lacked that spirit of dash and vivacity perceptible in their first efforts, With Auerbach, however, age appears to make little difference. His appeal to the “Culti- vated’ was persistently humoreus, although the subject, as announced by the title, would give just the reverse idea, The “Godfather” was a great improvement on Franklin’s Almanac, inasmuch as the work was inevery way more comprehen- sive and appealed to all classes, The wit displayed is of that easy, natural character certain to pro- duce @ good etfect. If we mistake not, this work also had an immense circulation outside of Fatherland, It seemed to meet the wants of the hour in Germany. The country was constantly flooded, so to speak, with heavy literature; deep thinking philosephers and scientists were sending forth from the press pamphlets and books on physics, astronomy, geology and theolegy, until the people had become impressed with the idea that the only amusement ofa light nature was to be had at the theatre or opera, But Auerbach’s interesting subjects soon took a complete hold of the public mind, hjs writings became popular, and, for awhile, at least, changed the entire current of feeling tn his own country. His minuteness of detail and graphic pictures of men and matters in general rendered bis werks truly Dewitching. Germany soon learned to appreciate the man whose versatile talent had done so much to raise the profession of letters ina loftier atmosphere, and while he labored to educate aud improve his fellow men, they in return endeavored to reward and honor him, He was born in the town of Nordstetten, Feb- ruary 28, 1812, and is ef Jewish descent. During’ the past thirty years he has resided in Weimar, Leipzig, Breslau, Dresden and Vienna, and his presence in the latter city at present cannot fail to be beneficial to the standing and character of the profession and work he represents, LOUISE MUHLBACH. Sketch of the Popular Authoress of Fathoriand. Louise Muhibach, the most popular suthoress of Germany, was born in 1814, in Neubrandenburg, Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Her father occupied a high social position in her native place, having been “Hofrath” (Court Counsellor), and ‘Oberbtirger meister” (Chief Mayor). She received a liberal education, and acquired a knowledge of French, English and Italian in the High Scheol of Neubran- denburg. When she had completed her studies, she accepted @ positien as travelling companion tea German lady of noble birth, whe had taken a deep interest in the talented young girl. They went te Italy, and, on their way, Clara Miller—that was her name then—vecame acquainted with Theodore Mundt, a rising young author, who be- longed to the “Young Germany” party, After two years they were married and settled in Berlin. When her husband was appeinted Professor of Arts and Sciences in the Breslau University they re- moved to Breslau, Subsequently they returned to Berlin, which has ever since been their home. The marriage was a very happy one. Frau Mundt—or Leuise Muhibach, the nom de plume under which she wrote—became soon a famous novelist, and all the literary celebrities of Berlin flecked to her house. She had two dangh- ters—Theodorg, who was some time ago an actress in Kassel, and Theresa, who is engaged in literary | pursuits and has the laudable ambition to become a well-known novelist. The year 1861 was a very sad one for Louise Muhlbach. Her husband died insane. She had nursed him with the greatest devotion and love, and it was a long time before she rallied from this terrible blow, She lives still im Berlin, where she has bought a beautiful residence. There she still works nine or | ten hours a day, and it seems asif her literary ac- tivity will only end with her life. Her works cover a wide range of thought and feeling. The first movel, ‘A Romance in Berlin,” was published when she was but twenty-two years old, Next year followed her ‘Court Stories’ (Hoigeschichten), ‘Justin’ was published in 1843, ‘Joham Gotzowski” in 1858, ‘Frederick the Great and His Court’ in 1865, “Berlin and Sans- souci in 1854, “Emperor Jeseph and His Court” in 1965, “Queen Hortense” in 1856, ‘Archduke John and His Times” in 1865, “‘Napoleon and Germany” in 1663, “The Great Elector and His Times,” “Em- peror Alexander and his Court,” “ Kaiserburg and Engelsburg,” ‘“Mohamet Ali and his Times,” are other of her works which are to be sound in every library in Germany. Her first works are different from her later productions, In her first novels she advanced the most unconventional views of lite. Murder and other crimes were her themes, and her splen- did imagination painted the social corruption of, the age in the most glaring colors. In “Eva; or, @ Romance in Berlin,” one of her first works, she endeavored to show that hypocrisy and cant, in religion as weil as in poil- tics, were sure to undermine all the moral feanda- tions of seciety, Her poiitical opinions were ultra-liberal, and in the ‘Last Days of Kath- erine 11.’ and the ‘Daughter of an Empress” she gave pictures of Russian despotism that almost make one’s flesh creep amd one’s hair to stand onend, In these novels her style is Mowing, rich, glowing—but at times too exuberant. In her later works, “Frederick the Great and His Court,” “Emperor Joseph and His Court," and others, she abstained from these revolting pictures of society, and endeavored to give a vivid and faithful account of the times in which these great men lived. In some instances she visited the countries in which her heroes nad lived, and all her historical novels give evidences of wide research and reading. Her novels are perhaps the most widely read of any works of fiction by German writers and are the standard novels in every circulating library. Where ts the boudoir in that land of philosophy and music where some tender-hearted woman has not shed tears over the loves of Frederick and Joseph? Where is the young school girl who has not dreamed of some hero with “Naming eyes” and most sensitive would not object to a word. In her home life Louise Muhibach has been a true woman, “Dr, Wainwright's Patient” and “A Waiting Race” | Tales” in point of popularity comes his almanacin | @ faithfutwife, a loving mother, kind, charitable, generous, Her house has always been open to strangers, and many an American of literary tastes has been the guest of the German anthoress. Louise Mthibach is now fifty-nine years eld. Her hair, which was black, is gray, but she ts still a stately and fine looking woman. She is about the middle size, has a full round face, with a frank ex- pression, large gray eyes, a high forehead and a mouth of singular sweetness, TAINTOR ECLIPSED. A Philadelphia Banker Makes Away with $700,000. The Mania for Fast Living Invading the Quaker City. PHILADELPHIA, April 30, 1873. Wall street may ‘congratulate itself on its fre- quent “irregularities,” and think {nm its egotism that bankers, bank offictals and operators outside its precincts are too “small potatoes” to merit a notice at its hands; and in many cases Wall street {s correct, but the details of the recent faifure of Harrison Grambo, banker, of thts city, throws in the shade anything you have had tn Wall street in this line in some time, not even excepting the re- cent exploit of the tainted Taintor. Mr. Harrison Grambo was certainly ambitious; and, 60 far as shrewdness at the expense ot’prin- ciple entitles a man to respect, so far ts Mr. Grambo entitled to applause for the manner in which he played his little game. If, however, this man congratulates himself on the present situa- tion, with his eharacter blasted and his innocent wife and family made to sutfer by his operations, then he possesses a nerve and effrontery un- equalled in the annals of villany. Mr. Grambe began his career at the foot of the ladder; indeed, it is said that his father's funeral expenses were paid some years ago by a collection taken up by the old gentleman’s | former business associates, so reduced had the family become pecuniarily, After the death of the elder Granbo THE HERO OF THIS STORY engaged in a mercantile business, but, ewing to the peculiarity ef his method, it was not long be- fore he found himself a wreck. His next effort was in banking. He started out on a large scale at once, and so far as asssumption and cheek could give him tone he had it But the brokers of the city never took to him very kindly. Philadelphia is not the-place for a splurge, aud any business man whe ever undertook tnis method in Philadelphia has, sooner or later, feund himself a dead cock in tRe pit. Grambo gave sneer. for sneer, and Lin @° om in the uneven tenor of lis way, unmindful of the steady old burghers, who frequently prophesied his down- fall. In course ef time he fitted up. his offices in a princely style, and wendering ‘countrymen were ‘equent recipients of Grambo's circulars, with the interior of the banking palaee engraved thercon. The counting house and the Fees offi with sofas and easy chairs and all the papers and royal ingrain carpets, were therein laplayed), and eople who knew nothing of the inside working of his wonderful institution said Grambo was'a WONDERFULLY SUCCESSFUL MAN, Confiding laborers and clerks and working women and farmers brought him their money to invest, and always received the interest promptly on time; but what ef the principal? Echo answers, what! Mr, Grambo’s sisters were provided with a com- fortable home. Grambo moved into Wainut street, that lecality so dear to the heart of Philadelphia respectability; costly pictures adorned his walls, the finest viands tempted his palate, and Grambo went on prospering with other Pion td money. Not content with possessing the finest offices, he fitted up a sub-ofice in gorgeous style in the ROOMS OF THE BOARD OF BRO! ] which was at once the envy of the mem- bers and an object of sarcasin to the older heads. ‘The banking palace in Walnut street—Mr, Gram- bo’s office was also in Walnut street—although ery. fine, could harJly be expected to suffice lor e THE PHILADELPHIA GOULD, and he began to cast his eyes around for @ more palatial building wherein he might organize a banking house without a rival on the American Continent. There is m Chestnut street, between Eighth and Ninth streets, a very elegant marble . building, peer occupied by Batley & Co., Jewellers, and this building the adventurous Grampe decided to possess. He sought out Mr, Joseph Tobias, the owner, and made a bargain with that gentlenan. Mr. Tobias agreed to ex- poet $15, in repairs and alterations, and rambo decided to move in as soon as possible, ‘The repairs were completed, and Mr. Tob! con- gratulated himself on the possession of such a de- sirable tenant, A few days ago, before Grambo was ready to move, an ugly rumor touching his solvency began to spread. An LEAT sac) proved the correct- negs of the rumor, and it required but two or three days to ascertain definitely that Grambo had failed for $700,000, A man to whom he was in- debted for gardening went into the stable ene night, and there found two furniture cars loaded with household furniture, awalling the flight of a few mere hours fer its removal to the house for- merly occupied by the Grambos, A few evenings ago @ trowd was attracted to the new banking house to see an tron manufacturer remove some iron work that Grambo had ordered, Two or three more days elapsed, and the FINANCIER OF THE PERIOD found himself arrested On three distinct charges of embezzlement. Bail was furnished in each instance, but there are more charges pending, and Mr. Grambo, from Beige appearances, has an excel- lent chance of verifying in his own person the experiences of one who suddenly finds himseu transferred FROM A PALACE TO A PRISON. Speculation, a desire to ape the nabits and follics of men who can afford to Poy their wishes, and an overweening vanity and belief in his own clever- ness, seem to have been the causes of Mr. Grambo’s down/all, atid the moral of the story, though plain, will be commented on for a day, and men will fail with other People’s money just the same as ever. At a hearing to-day in the case of Grambo it was announced that a warrant had been issued forcing him into bankruptcy. His liabilities are $700,000 and his assets $100, His residence cost, with the furniture, $120,000; but it is heavily mortgaged. THE ELM CITY A€CIDENT. Investigation by a Board of Inspectors= The Silemce ot the Fog Bell at Throg’s Point. ‘The investigation of the Elm City accident, which occurred on the morning of the 8th of April, was begun yesterday morning by Inspectors Beckwith and Hovey, ofNew London, at No, 23 Pine street. Captain Beck, of the Elm City, testified that he left New York at eleven o’clock on the night of April 7; as the night was feggy he put the steamer half @ point off her course to clear the Step- ping Stones, but she struck on the buoy; the passengers were got of in_ safety; he would have anchored off Whitestone bnt for hearing the fog bell on Throg's Point, which he did not hear again for an hour and ahalf, Stephen’D. Horton, a Hell Gate pilot, testi- fied that he heard the steamer’s whistle several times and then rowed over to Throg’s Point light- house, which he hailed eight or nine times before getting ap answer; a man then sopenree ani he asked him why he did net ring the bell; heard it ring about two hours alter this, Thomas Mc Vier- ney, engineer, testified that he “slowed down” the engine and stopped near Stepping Stones, Nathaniel Stevens, pilot of the vessel, vesti- fied that the Kim City waited at Throg’s Point, and whistled three times befere the bell was heard, when she started again; during this time she must have drifted, as she struck on Stepping Stones after having been put half a point On her course. John Hart, the keeper of the lighthouse, testified that he had mn lying down with his clothes on, and whea he heard the whistle got up and rang the bell; it had been ringing some @ before Horton hatied him. Several witnesses testified that the bell was not heard to ring until about three o'clock on the morning of the sth. ROBBERY OF HUMAN HAIR, Loss $3,000 Worth of Chignons, On the 30th of April, 1872, a case of human hair, valued at $3,866, arrived here from Hamburg ia the steamer Thuringia, It was consigned te Lewisohn Bros., 25 Park place. It lay in bond unta the, 25th of this month, when it was taken. Oa its “a. to the owner the case was broke: into. Through the efforts of James A, Bryan, 784 Lexington avenue, and Ferdinand Van Hande: some eight hundred doliars’ worth of th missing property was discovered in the possessiog of Samuel Jacobson, a dry goods dealer at 81 Cang street, Jacobson Was arrested yesterday by Onice® Finnerty, of the Twentyseventh precinct. He was brought before Judge Dowling aud held undy boarly 90 Jargely’ patronized, were well xe J all that perlection Of manly beauty with which | $10,000 bull to answ2