ENLARGING HORIZONS.

_SORDELLO_.
Zwei Seelen wohnen, ach, in meiner Brust, Die eine will sich von der andern trennen; Die eine haelt in derber Liebeslust Sich an die Welt mit klammernden Organen; Die andre hebt gewaltsam sich vom Dust Zu den Gefilden hoher Ahnen.
-- _Faust_.
_Paracelsus_, though only a series of quasi-dramatic scenes, suggested considerable undeveloped capacity for drama.

From a career in which the most sensational event was a dismissal from a professorship, and the absorbing passion the thirst for knowledge, he had elicited a tragedy of the scientific intellect.

But it was equally obvious that the writer's talent was not purely dramatic; and that his most splendid and original endowments required some other medium than drama for their full unfolding.

The author of _Paracelsus_ was primarily concerned with character, and with action as the mirror of character; agreeing in both points substantially with the author of _Hamlet_.