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Updated: June 1, 2025
Freytag, to whom Schmidt has returned from Embden, but no Answer from Potsdam, or the least light about those SKRIPTUREN, is in the depths of embarrassment; cannot open, till he know completely what items and SKRIPTUREN he is to make sure of on opening: "I cannot, till the King's answer come!" "But your written promise to Voltaire?"
The library in which, as a small boy, I was permitted to browse, where I read those wonderful Black Forest Stories and my first serious novel, On the Heights, contained a bust of Goethe, and on the shelves were Fichte, Freytag, Spielhagen, Strauss, and a miscellaneous collection of German authors grave and gay, or perhaps melancholy were a better word, for even now I should find it hard to point to a German author who is distinctively gay.
The Arab dictionary of Freytag confirms M. Duveyrier's etymology, the author thus describing Ghadames "Nomen oppidi in Africa, unde pelles gudsamiticae appellatae sunt." Whatever its origin, we find the fabrication of these guadamaciles very flourishing at Cordova in the sixteenth century.
And thus Baron Freytag, what is very curious, had managed to bargain beforehand with the young Prince, That directly on coming to power, he would give up Schwiebus again, SHOULD the offer of Schwiebus be accepted by Papa. To which effect Baron Freytag held a signed Bond, duly executed by the young man, before Papa had concluded at all. Which is very curious indeed!
In his tragedies, on the other hand, he was apt to lead off with a crisp, somewhat startling passage of more or less vehement action, appealing rather to the nerves than to the intelligence such a passage as Gustav Freytag, in his Technik des Dramas, happily entitles an einleitende Akkord, an introductory chord.
To Freytag's terror and horror; who, however, caught them in time: and was rigorous enough now, and loud enough; street-mob gathering round the transaction; Voltaire very loud, and Freytag too, the matter taking fire here; and scenes occurring, which Voltaire has painted in a highly flagrant manner!
In such a scene the mind stretches forward, no longer to something vague and distant, but to something instant and imminent. In discussing what Freytag calls the erregende Moment, we might have defined it as the starting-point of the tension.
Voltaire, and all this big cawing rookery of miseries and rages, would have at once taken wing again, into the serene blue, could Voltaire but have had patience three days more! But that was difficult for him, too Difficult. Walk out, very gingerly, duck into a hackney-coach; and attempt to escape by the Mainz Gate! Freytag's spy runs breathless with the news; never was a Freytag in such taking.
The triangle used by Freytag to illustrate the plot of a play may make this clear. AC is the line of rising action along which the story climbs, incident by incident, to the point C; C is the turning point, the crisis, or the climax; CB is the line of falling action along which the story descends incident by incident to its logical resolution. Nothing may be left to luck or chance.
Writes with stiff brevity, stiff but distinct; with perfect observance of grammar both in French and German; with good practical sense, and faithful effort to do aright what his order is: no trace of "MonSIR," of "OEuvre de PoesHie," to be found in Freytag; and most, or all, of the ridiculous burs stuck on him by Voltaire, are to be pulled off again as as fibs, or fictions, solacing to the afflicted Wit.
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