Excerpt from Memoirs of Karoline Bauer, Vol. 2 of 2: From the German Two other causes helped to drive me from Berlin. The old objectionable privilege of seniority at the Berlin court-stage so rarely allowed a good or con genial part to fall to my lot - at best those very youth ful ones for which Mdme. Stich, Mdme. Unzelmann, and Mdme. Devrient-romitsch had become absolutely useless, owing to their years. I grew more and more tired of playing again and again saucy lady's-maids, unripe girls of fifteen, colourless, moonstruck maidens, and pert pages. I felt daily more and more that what talent I had could never develop largely on this soil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.