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258 GOETHE SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA bullied, browbeaten, and expelled from their homes by native and imported revolutionaries for not wanting to participate wholeheartedly in the establishment of the puppet republic outweigh any number of the speeches and exhortations of the so-called Mainz Jacobins, including those of Georg Forster. The volume contains a large number of useful and enlightening contemporary illustrations and reproductions of book titles, one of which inadvertently but aptly illustrates a persistent (and perhaps congenital) GDR and West German Marxist inability to read their texts carefully: on p. 8 there is a reproduction of the title of Johann Reinhold Forster's Bemerkungen . . . auf seiner Reise um die Welt gesammlet (translated and annotated by his son Georg, to be sure, whose name is prominently displayed) which is captioned "Titelblatt des von Georg Forster herausgegebenen Berichts 'Reise um die Welt' (1783)!" University of California, Irvine Thomas P. Saine Pastorius, Francis Daniel, Deliciae Hortenses or Garden-Recreations and Voluptates Apianae, ed. by Christoph E. Schweitzer. Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1982 (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics and Culture, Vol. 2). The publication of this facsimile edition of Francis Daniel Pastorius's manuscript notebook containing his Deliciae Hortenses and Voluptates Apianae, with introduction, transcription, and notes by Christoph E. Schweitzer, is a handsome and appropriate memorial to the current German-American tricentennial celebration. Pastorius (16511719 ), like his fathei Melchior Adam Pastorius, was a respected jurist who received an exceptionally good general education at several European universities. As a young man he became associated with the Frankfurt Company, a group of Pietists who had purchased a tract of land near Philadelphia from William Penn. Pastorius volunteered to be their agent. He sailed for the New World late in the spring of 1683 and was there to greet the thirteen Krefeld families when they arrived several weeks later to establish the first German community in America. Pastoiius played an active role among the Geimantown settlers for over three decades as judge, teacher, and mayor. He was also a prolific writer, a polyhistor in Schweitzer's informative characterization. The Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie credits Pastorius with forty-three works, but few of them were ever printed. They survive rather in manuscript form in various Pennsylvania libraries; this is the case, for instance, with his most extensive work, the Beehive, a kind of encyclopedic commonplace book intended as a compendium of all knowledge. The two works Schweitzer has chosen for reproduction here are similar to the Beehive but restricted to the subject area of gardens, plants, and apiculture. The contents of the manuscripts are easily anticipated: quotations and paraphrases from the Bible and a variety of ancient writers, excerpts from English sources, notably Nicholas Culpeper's The English Physician Enlarged, original observations and poetry, and snippets of lore gathered aurally and from books. The uses of herbs, the emblematic meanings of plants, Christa Sammons 259 and the Biblical significance of gaidens are explored. Lessons are drawn from the transitoriness of flowers and the industry of bees. Yet the manuscripts often rise above the level of platitude. We are offered intimate glimpses into Pastorius's relations with his neighbors in the jocular warnings to would-be garden trespassers and his anticipation of profitable honey harvests. Pastotius's love of language is the most interesting aspect of the manuscripts. Excerpts appear in Italian, Latin, French, English, Greek, and German; he enjoys comparing the names of plants in various tongues and is fond of bilingual rhymes. AU in all, a more sprightly character emerges from these pages than the one portrayed by Whittier in his long and often boring poem about Pastorius, "The Pennsylvania Pilgrim." The Deliciae Hortenses and Voluptates Apianae manuscripts are contained in one notebook held by the Joseph Horner Memorial Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania. Assembled between 1705 and 1711, they are written in a graceful, neat hand; Roman script is used, except for the passages in German. The entire notebook is here reproduced quite legibly in half-tone facsimile, apparently reduced about 15% from the size of the original. The transcription helpfully expands abbreviations and contractions but leaves nearly everything else unchanged, while the annotations paraphrase all passages in languages other than...

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