SHAFTESBURY— ENGLAND AND GERMANY 



Second Characters ; or, The Language of Forms, by the Right Honour- 

 able Anthony), Earl of Shaftesbury. Edited by Benjamin Rand, 

 Ph.D., Harvai'd University. 

 Demy 8vo. pp. xxviii + 182. With a frontispiece. Price ys. 6J. net 



The publication of this book is the result of a discovery among the 

 Shaftesbury Papers of a MS volume containing the plan and fourth treatise 

 of a work intended as a complement to the famous "Characteristics." 



" The book was to consist of four treatises. These were : I. ' A 

 Letter concerning Design ' ; IL 'A Notion of the Historical Draught or 

 Tablature of The Judgment of Hercules'; IIL 'An Appendix concerning 

 the Emblem of Cebes ' ; and IV. 'Plastics or the Original Progress and 

 Power of Designatory Art.'...' Plastics,' regarded by the author as the chief 

 treatise of the four, has never previously been published. The definite 

 grouping of these various treatises in the form of a single work, as intended 

 when written, is also here first made known." 



Mr Edmund Gosse, writing in The Morning Post, says : 



"Dr Rand has been a faithful servant to the memory of Shaftesbury. It was he 

 who, in 1900, discovered at the Record Office the treatise called 'Philosophical 

 Regimen,' and published his discovery. He now comes forward with a still more 

 important and interesting disclosure. ...Dr Rand, like a very clever architect, has found 

 pillars and capitals scattered by earthquake over a plain, and has so put them together 

 that they form, though still unhappily imperfect, the outlined structure of a temple. 

 ...What is peculiarly interesting is the evidence given to us by the text of 'Plastics,' 

 here printed exactly as it was written, with regard to the author's style. This, in 

 Shaftesbury's revised works, published in his own lifetime, is polished to the extremity, 

 and, indeed, beyond the extremity, of elegance, worked upon till the surface is as smooth 

 and as frigid as marble. We are now able to observe how completely this last effect 

 was the result of labour after a false ideal, and how entirely different his style was 

 when it expressed his unsophisticated thought." 



The Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Seventeenth 

 Century. By Gilbert JVaterhouse, M.A. Formerly Scholar oj St 'Johri s 

 College, Cambridge, First Tiarks University Gennan Scholar, English 

 Lecturer in the University of Leipzig. 



Demy 8vo. pp. xx+190. Price -js. 6d. net 

 This work is inspired by Professor Herford's well-known volume on 

 the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Sixteenth Century, 

 and investigates their nature during the century which followed. In the 

 earlier period the literary influence of Germany upon England was stronger 

 than that of England upon Germany, whereas in the eighteenth century 

 the reverse is the case. The object of the present work is to bridge the 

 gulf which lies between these two periods. 



Contents : Introduction. Early Travellers. Earlier Lyrical Poetry. Sidney's 

 "Arcadia" in Germany. The Latin Novel. The Epigram. History in Literature. 

 English Philosophers in Germany. The Theologians. Later Travellers. The 

 Awakening of Germany and the Growth of English Influence. Later Lyrics. Later 

 Satire. Milton in Germany. Conclusion. Appendixes. Index. 



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