I-II KRATURE, CONTINENTAL. 



4.-,:, 



' I'niir uric Signature" (six short stories) arc titrag- 



..iii 1 v.i-j. \ n, .table book in the tield nt' jMietry 



- Tropln'.->," h\ .l.'.-e Maria ile llercdia, long 



kiion as a writer <>f impeccable und l>euutit'ul verse. 



The entire edition of this, his first volume, we ure told, 



Id on the iluy <>f publication. Other works, 



inurkeil mure or less by similar characteristics -purity 



iif.Myle anl lieailty of language, absence ot' the ethieal 



i>r the philosophical element, suppression of the .</ 



an- Ferdinand Hi-mld's Chevaleriee Sentimcntalcs.'' 



Muiiriee .In I'li-sys's "l.ivre 1'aMoral," Henri dc 

 IvcL'tiicr's " Tel qu'on Songo," and a Adolphe Rett<5'8 

 "Thiile des Brumes." The jxietry of .Iran liaiiieail 

 ( Nature"), Maurice Rollinut ( La Nature' 1 :, Andre 

 I.emoync (" Kleurs ilu Soir"), Las also won approba- 

 tion. New plays produced or published include 



Georges l-e> lie's "Mirages"; Paul Ilervieu's com- 



ed\ Lcs Paroles Uestent " (189'J), a brilliant sureess; 

 Kr'ncst Daiidct'g "Un Drarne Parisien" (1892,), not 

 too tenderly treated bv the critics; Guy de Maupas- 

 sant's "La Paix du Manage "; Francois de Curd's 

 " Knvers d'une Sainte," " Les Fossiles," " L'lnvitcc," 

 ami Amour Brode" (which met with instantaneous 

 public approval despite simplicity of method and se- 

 verity of thought and style); Henri Amic's "Une 

 Vengeance"; Maurice Vaucairc's " Valet de Cceur"; 

 Georges Courteline's tirst "play, " Boubouroche," a de- 

 e'uled ''hit"; the "Drames Nacre's" of Armand Sil- 

 vestre and Eugene Morand (depicting incidents from 

 the New Testament represented in the surround- 

 ings of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries); and 

 K. ile (loncourt's satirical farce, " A bas le Progres," 

 with a preface directed against the influence of Ibsen 

 and of Russian literature. Sardou and Moreau manu- 

 factured Madame Saus-Gene," and Lemaitre's " Les 

 Hois" was described as a weak production. 



Germany (including Austria and, in part, Switzer- 

 land). An increase of popular histories in this land 

 ot thoroughness is to oe noted. German matters 

 t'orm the theme of Fr. G. Schultheiss's " Gesehiehte, 

 dcs deutschen Nationalgefuhles " (Vol.1), W. Bip- 

 pen's "Geschichte der Stadt Bremen " (vol. I), and 

 L. Geiger's " Berlin, 1688-1840 " (Vol. I, 1892). 

 Hans Blum's " Das Deutsche Keich zur Zeit Bis- 

 marck's " and " Aus Bismarck's politischem Brief- 

 wcchsel " (1892) are among the works relating to the 

 ex-Chancellor, whose ' Politische Briefe " (4. Sanun- 

 lung, 1892), correspondence with Gen. Leopold von 

 Gcrlach (1851-'62), and "Politische Reden" have 

 likewise been published, as have also the "Reden" 

 {1883-'9i) of his successor, Caprivi. Some interest- 

 ing biographies and " memoirs" have seen the light, 

 among which are Alfred Arneth's "Aus meinem 

 l.eben," Us. Bartli's "Crispi," Erich Marcks's " Gas- 

 i>ard von Coligny," the "Tagebucher" of the late 

 I'heodor von Bernhardy, interesting in their bearimr 

 on the Rubso-Turkish war, the veteran Austrian 

 diplomatist Count Alexander Huebner's account of 

 the -most momentous year of his life" (i.e., 1848), 

 and Wilhelm Oechelhauser's " Erinnerungenaus den 

 .Jahren 1848-'50," in which we are told the story of 

 FiaiH-e's refusal, during the Industrial Exhibition of 

 1 > r.i at Paris, to recognize this envoy of the " German 

 Kmpiri'." Vita Hassan has written "Die Wahrhcit 

 iibcr Kmin Pascha," and the question and history of 

 colonization is producing many books here, as in 

 Franee. The I'nited States are viewed in various 

 l'lia-> > in (T. Jan net und W. Kampfc's " Die \Yr- 

 einiirten Staaten Nordamerika's in der (;e^en\\art, -1 

 Krnst von I le-se- \Vartei. r tr's " ( 'hieairo " and < 'uriosa 

 aus der neiieii Welt." W. Siever's " Aiuerika," and (i. 

 Diereks's " Kniturliilder aus den Vereiniirteii Staat- 

 en." General history is covered in Ruymond's " Welt- 

 L'esehiehto " (two volumes I ; and Max Ohnefalseh - 

 liiehter's " K\pros. die Bibel und Homer, 1 ' .1. (1st. 

 Droyseli's ''Kleine Sehriften XUr alien Cesehiehte" 

 (VoL 1 ), and " Die attiseheii (Jrabreliefs," issued l>y 

 the Vienna Academy, arc contributions to aivha'olo- 

 gy and ancient history. In tlieoloiry and philosophy 

 v\e have Eduard Reuss's " Das alte Testament uln-r- 

 set/.t, eingeleitet und erlautert" (posthumous. 



Paul de Lairardr'H " Septuaent-Stii.lii:ii " ; F. Spit- 

 ta'rt " Xur (iesohiehte und Litcratur di-^ In 1 

 turns 11 ) Vol. 1) ; W. Primer's (JI-M hi.-htedi r ii 

 en M\stik im Mitt.-lalter " i Pan 111, 1898): and 11. 

 K. 111'. D. -Ill's - l'hilo,ophie d,, Gciniitlis." The 

 in-L'leet of method first introduced by Bohopenbmv 

 (wnone letters have been published by Ludwig Sche- 

 manii) reaehed iu* climax, we are Und, in Nietzsche 

 (Vol. IV of whose "AW spraeh Zarathuwtra" has 

 appeared), who "preaches the return to a condition 

 of nature, 1 ' maintaining that true morality consists in 

 l>eing above the ditlcrem-e between ^nod und evil. 

 attaining his ideal of humanity, the " rebermenceh." 

 It is worthy of note tliat the 'Kreneh "S\ml>< 

 are said to be enthusia>tie admirei> of Niet/.s<'he. 

 Boguslawski defends warfare in his " Der Krieg in 

 seiner wahren Medcutung fi'ir Staat und Volk," wnile 

 the directly opposite tendeney has occasioned the 

 founding of a new review by Baroness Bertha von 

 Suttncr, bearing the same title as her novel, Dii- 

 Watfen nieder." G. W. F. Hegel's " Kritik der \ 1 1 

 fassung Deutschlands' 1 has Beta edited from the 

 authors manuscript by G. Mollat; L. Bueher's 

 "Kleine Schriften politischen Inhalte," and J. Koh- 

 ler's " Kulturrechte desalten Amerika. I : Das Reeht 

 der A/.teken" (1892) have appeared ; and E. von Bur- 

 touch's " Vorschlage zur Losungder ArbeiterlV;iL." ' ; 

 K. Bucher's "Entstehung der Volkswirthseliatt " ; 

 Eug. Jfiger'a "Die Agrarfrage der Gegenwart"; F. 

 C. Huber's " Geschichtliche Entwickelung des moder- 

 nen Verkehrs"; O. Ilenne am Rhyn's "Gebrcehen 

 und Siinden der Sittenpolizei aller Zciten . . ." ; Rdf. 

 von Gneist's " Die Militarvorlage von 1892 und der 

 preussische Verfassungskonfiikt von 1862-'66"; Adt. 

 Bastian's " Wie das Volk denkt" L. Felix's " Kritik 

 des Socialismus " ; Jul. Wolfs " Vcrstaatlichung der 

 Silberj>roduktion und andere Vorschlage zur Wuhr- 

 ungsfrage"; and H. Wiennann's "Deutsche Politik 

 seit Bisniarck^ Entlassung, 1890-'92," are further 

 publications in the field of political and social science. 

 and a new monthly, " Die Frau " (Berlin), is devoted 

 to womanhood. The letters of Ferdinand Lassalle, 

 written 1862-'64 to Hans von Bulow, have also been 

 published. "Die deutschen Univcraitaten : fur die 

 Weltausstellung in Chicago, 1893; . . . hrsg. von W. 



theilvnaen aus den 0-rientalischen Saint>iltin<i> n ). 

 The subject of fine arts in general has been contrib- 

 uted to by Rch. Muthcr m his timely and valu- 

 able "Gesehiehte der Malcrci im 19. JaJirhundert"; 

 Brunn (" Griechische Kunstgcschichte ") ; Alois Riegl 

 (" Grundlegungen zu einer Geschichtc der Orna- 

 mentik"); P. Lehfeldt ( u Bau- und Kunstdenknialer 

 Thuringens ") ; R. Borrmann (" Bau- und Kunstdcnk- 

 mSler von Berlin"); Paul Clemen ("Kunstdciik- 

 maler der Rheinprovinz") ; Philipp Spitta ^"Zur 

 Musik," essays); while Rch. Graul's- Fritz v. Lhde," 

 1 .;; M ara's edition of Liszt's letters (two volumes). B'u-r- 

 baum's "Fritz von Uhde," and Otto Bralim's "Karl 

 Stauffcr-Bern " (a talented Swiss etcher i illu.-tmte 

 individual efforts in the broad domain of the tine art>. 

 The history of literature is still n-ceivinir tVe.-h con- 

 tributions relating to Goethe and (hillparzer. In the 

 ".Jahrbueh der Gocthe-GesellM-haft " a number of 

 (ioethe's letters to Christiaiie arc published, throw ing 

 much light on the relations between the two; while 

 11. Diint/.er, in " Friedcrike von lesenheim im Lichte 

 der Wahrheit,' 1 IULH vindicated another one of Goethe's 

 loves, Kriedcrike Brion, from charges made against 

 her. In the yearbook of the Grillparzcr Society, on 

 the other han'd, portions of Grillparzcr's "Tagcbuch- 

 bliittiT 11 all'ord an insight into the strange self-doubt. 

 the misanthropy that agitated that unhappy i>oct"s 

 soul. This yearbook has also now begun to enter 

 upon its more extended programme the study of 

 Grillparzer's time, of a century of German-Austrian 

 literary life, a subject which Adam Mullcr-Gutten- 

 brunn'has treated in his interestinir " 1m Jahrhundcrt 

 Grillparzer's.' 1 The triennial prize founded by Grill- 



