text:  How lucidly the early half-forgotten images were restored under the touch of that inimitable artist! What a luxury it was to revel with the first favourites of our childhood now developed into full life and strength and stately beauty! With these before us how could we dare be infidels and recreants to our earlier faith or smile in scorn at the fanciful loves and cherished dreams of infancy? Such were our feelings nor could it well be otherwise; for Tieck was and is a poet of the highest grade--not a playwright and systematic jest-hunter; and would as soon have put forth his hand in impious challenge against the Ark as have stooped to become a buffooning pander to the idle follies of the million