The Cornhill Magazine, for June. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) — Two new
stories are commenced in the Cornhill, one of which," Carla," promises exceedingly well ; while the other, "Lord Fairland's Secret," is as yet built too completely on the ordinary novel-lines. There is no serious article of importance, but we have found great charm in the pleasant paper on Walther von der Vogelweide, the first of media3val German song-writers, born, it is believed, about 1170,—a poet who, as the writer says, recalls to him the few joyous Lieder of Heine, having in him, too, one would judge, from the few specimens given, much of Heine's Anacreontic vein. He impressed his own generation while still a young man so strongly, that Gottfried von Strasburg, hearing that Reinmar the lyrist, was dead, sang thus :—
Who now shall lead our congregation? Whose voice guide this dear singing nation? I know full well whom ye will find Bear best that banner to your mind; That Vogelweide it must be, Whose clear high voice rings merrily In fields and in the open air! Who sings of wondrous things and fair, Whose art is like an organ's tone, Whose songs are tuned in Citheron To please our goddess Lady of Love."
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