CHAPTER IX.

Of the Year of Tuition of the German Citizen (1790).--Influence of Frederic on German art, philosophy, and historical writing--Poetry flourishes--The aspect of a city in 1790--The coffee gardens and the theatres--Travelling and love of the picturesque--Different sources of morals and activity amongst the nobles, citizens, and peasants--Characteristics of the life of the country nobles--The piety of the country people--Education of the citizens--Advantages of the Latin schools and of the university education--The sentimentality and change in the literary classes from 1750-1790--The Childhood of Ernst Frederic Haupt