now from their labors, Conrad and his successors, in long series,
in the old Monastery of Heilsbronn (between Nurnberg and Anspach),
with Tombs to many of them, which were very legible for slight
Biographic purposes in my poor friend Rentsch's time, a hundred
and fifty years ago; and may perhaps still have some quasi-use,
as "sepulchral brasses," to another class of persons. One or two
of those old buried Figures, more peculiarly important for our
little Friend now sleeping in his cradle yonder, we must endeavor,
as the Narrative proceeds, to resuscitate a little and render
visible for moments.


OF THE HOHENZOLLERN BURGGRAVES GENERALLY.

As to the Office, it was more important than perhaps the reader
imagines. We already saw Conrad first Burggraf, among the magnates
of the country, denouncing Henry the Lion. Every Burggraf of
Nurnberg is, in virtue of his ofice, "Prince of the Empire:" if a
man happened to have talent of his own, and solid resources of his
own (which are always on the growing hand with this family), here
is a basis from which he may go far enough. Burggraf of Nurnberg:
that means again GRAF (judge, defender, manager, G'REEVE) of the
Kaiser's BURG or Castle,--in a word Kaiser's Representative and
ALTER EGO,--in the old Imperial Free-Town of Nurnberg; with much
adjacent very complex territory, also, to administer for the
Kaiser. A flourishing extensive City, this old Nurnberg, with
valuable adjacent territory, civic and imperial, intricately
intermixed; full of commercial industries, opulences, not without
democratic tendencies. Nay it is almost, in some senses, the
LONDON AND MIDDLESEX of the Germany that then was, if we will