text:  The information given by the Frau Rath about her son has already been incorporated in the thousand and one memoirs and recollections supplied by the love and admiration of his friends;--we will therefore not follow Bettina in her record of his boyish days as gathered from his mother and reported to himself further than to remark that vanity seems from the very first to have been his prevailing characteristic--even to so low a pitch as the "sumptuousness of apparel