



Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive




Transcriber's Note:

   1. Page scan source:
      http://www.archive.org/details/studentlifegerm02corngoog

   2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe].





                                  THE

                        STUDENT-LIFE OF GERMANY.






                                  THE



                        STUDENT-LIFE OF GERMANY:


                           BY WILLIAM HOWITT.
   AUTHOR OF "THE RURAL LIFE OF ENGLAND," "BOOK OF THE SEASONS," ETC.


               FROM THE UNPUBLISHED MS. OF DR. CORNELIUS.


                     CONTAINING NEARLY FORTY OF THE


                       MOST FAMOUS STUDENT SONGS.


[Illustration]

                                   THINK OFT, YE BRETHREN;
            THINK OF THE GLADNESS OF OUR YOUTHFUL PRIME,--
            IT COMETH NOT AGAIN,--THAT GOLDEN TIME!

                                                 The Commers Book.



                             PHILADELPHIA:
                            CAREY AND HART.
                               MDCCCXLII.






            C. Sherman &, Co. Printers, 19 St. James Street






"How shall I call thee, thou high, thou rough, thou noble, thou
barbaric, thou loveable, unharmonious, song-full, repelling, yet
refreshing life of the Burschen years? How shall I describe you, ye
golden hours, ye choral-songs of brotherly love? What tone shall
I give to you to make myself understood? What colours to thee, thou
never-comprehended chaos? I shall describe thee? Never! Thy ludicrous
outside lies open; the layman sees that; one can describe that to him;
but thy inner and lovely ore, the miner only knows who goes singing
with his brethren into the deep shaft. He