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Probably he will return to the drapery shop in which he has hitherto been an assistant, after a pleasant wanderjahr with the company. Ernesto has been some time on the stage and was formerly a barber; he is, in fact, still a barber and shaves the company, thereby adding to his salary, the greater part of which he sends every week to his wife who is at home with his two children.
Still the Boy said nothing. The other resumed more lightly: "In America we combine our travels with business. But it is no new idea in the world that a young man should have his Wanderjahr before he finds what he wants, or even finds acquiescence. It did not need Wilhelm Meister to set the feet of youth on that trail; it did not need the Crusades.
This portion of the youth's life is known as his "wanderjahr" and the traveler is known by the name of "wanderbürsche" The trip serves to broaden the mind of the "bürsche," to render him self-reliant, and to give him a knowledge and experience of the world aye, and of his craft as well that he could never obtain if he remained at home.
I'd rather be that than be a bran-stuffed automaton that's never human enough to hunger. But of course you're naturally a Puritan and always will be one, no matter what you do. You're a good sort I'd trust you to the limit you're sincere and you want to grow. But me my Wanderjahr isn't over yet.
For the modern Englishman a knowledge of one or two other countries and languages is as much as the pressure of life will permit, and it is greatly to be regretted that poverty and hard work limit even this acquisition to very few. A Wanderjahr for the working-man would do much to cement the unity of western civilization.
It is true that a Wanderjahr in Morocco has not the luxuries of travel in India; and Englishmen who would break new ground must wear Moorish dress, talk Arabic, and prepare to face considerable risks, with the off-chance of writing in some such strain as Davidson: "To-day I have parted with all my hair except one long tuft over my right ear. I never expect to become white again.
His Fame His Autobiography Its Value for the Student of History, Manners, and Character, in the Renaissance Birth, Parentage, and Boyhood Flute-playing Apprenticeship to Marcone Wanderjahr The Goldsmith's Trade at Florence Torrigiani and England Cellini leaves Florence for Rome Quarrel with the Guasconti Homicidal Fury Cellini a Law to Himself Three Periods in his Manhood Life in Rome Diego at the Banquet Renaissance Feeling for Physical Beauty Sack of Rome Miracles in Cellini's Life His Affections Murder of his Brother's Assassin Sanctuary Pardon and Absolution Incantation in the Colosseum First Visit to France Adventures on the Way Accused of Stealing Crown Jewels in Rome Imprisonment in the Castle of S. Angelo The Governor Cellini's Escape His Visions The Nature of his Religion Second Visit to France The Wandering Court Le Petit Nesle Cellini in the French Law Courts Scene at Fontainebleau Return to Florence Cosimo de' Medici as a Patron Intrigues of a petty Court Bandinelli The Duchess Statue of Perseus End of Cellini's Life Cellini and Machiavelli.
He divided it into five periods, and, with a reminiscence of Wilhelm Meister, called it his Wanderjahr: "The first should be named Youth, and give the ideal and the actual in youth. "The second should be the struggle between the ideal and the actual. "The third should be the mastery and supremacy of the ideal over the actual and material.
"I have been appointed a delegate to attend the Centennial Congress in Paris the middle of next month and somehow I feel a bit run down lately and I thought I would take the little chap and have have a Wanderjahr. You won't need him now, Mrs. Molly, and I couldn't go without him, could I?" The sadness in his voice would have killed me if I hadn't let it madden me instead.
In the days when Wilhelm Meister was written, the Wanderjahr or year of travel was a recognised part of student life, and was held in high regard as contributing a valuable element to a complete education. "The Europe of the Renaissance," writes M. Wagner, "was fairly furrowed in every direction by students, who often travelled afoot and barefoot to save their shoes."