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l.riT.KATlTlE, CONriNKNTAl, IN 1897. 



II. Milk.*** "iVr deutM-he Roman des 10. 



.lahrhuu.i '.- di-ut-.-|,,- Dii-litiing der Ge- 



\lten tiiul : \dolfBar- 



^iegnmrS-hul-. Mini Xieledcir 



itur uiul Kunst " 



Bojwennann's " Dant.-'s Spuren in Italien." 

 richly illi.- hunt.-. M-III l.ebcn uixi 



:haltnisH *ur Kun>t und /.ir I'.-Ii- 

 tik." : ; Julius Hiirgu'rafV. "Schiller's 



FraucngrsUltfii " (dealing with Ihe mllum 

 woman mi flu- )( i : Kriedrich Xarn< U's po*thu- 

 SrrhifUMi ; 1. IlaiKl 3 hrif- 



v his >on Kiluiinl; Rudolf Steiner's 

 * Goethe'* Weltmnsehauun 



rncrund noth- 



' ".lohann Peter I"/.. Xum 

 Todestage !- Diehters"; tin- third ami last 

 volur : fried Ki D : seine Briefe 



uiul Tag. l.iichcr." by J. Baechthold: A. K'omcr's 

 " Frit/ Keuler in seinem Ix-bm und Schatl 

 iMiiiiphlcts liy .1. Wormstall <" Annette v. Droste- 

 llnl-holT iii Kreise ilir.T Y.nsandten uiul 

 Freunde "). .1. Kichemann (" Krliiuternde Bermer- 

 . Annette v. Droste-IIiilshofT's Dichtun- 

 . ami others, reviving tin- memory >f a imtnl 

 1 rric poet ; Michel Maria Itabcnlechner'a " IlaunT- 

 liii- : vkr" (lu-w matrrial); 



K. Tlulr. (Jal-i : inauuel (J.-jl,,-! " ; A. I',. 



Faust's "Charles SralsfirM. d.-r Diditcr 

 Ilrmi^.liar.-n ": Paul (icrU-r's "Willu-lm 

 cine \Vijrlis:u!)^ M-inrr Dichtun^cn " : and Adolf 

 L.-rharl IIaii)>tiiiaiiii." \V. I >".r].f.-ld and 

 Kinil Das gneehische Theater: H< 



tur (it-M-hichte des Dionysos-Theaters in A then 

 uml andt n-r j:rie hisdii-r Tliratt-r" throws impor- 

 tant li^'ht on the quotion of the form of the (Jn-<-k 

 stage. And in the literature of art there are Adolf 

 " Intrrnir/./i : kunstp-srliiclitlirhe 

 Studim": llerthold Daun's \vrll-writt.-n "Adam 

 KrafTt unddie K nnst ler seiner Z-it : -in Iteitra^xur 

 Kun-l^crM-hichte Nllrnler:_ r - " : \\ . von >. idlit/'s 

 concise and impartial "Die Kntwiekelunjr d-r 

 inodi-riien Malerei " (No. 20.") ( ,f the " Sam mini 

 meinv.TMamllieher wiss<>ns<-haftliclM-r Vortr&ge"); 

 Carl Neumann's suggestive " Der Kampf um die 

 neue Kun-t." dealing with the modern tendency 

 recently at taeked l-y Anton von Werner and I.eii- 

 bai-li : and Kduanl Man>lick\s " Fiinf Jahre Musik, 

 181-''J.-): Kritiken." 



A n-.tal'ie novel i F. S|ii<'lliagf>n's " Fau>t nlus." 

 good in characteri/ati..n and dramatically e<,nvist- 

 Others are Adolf Willirandt's " Scldeieliendes 

 (iift " and " Hildegard Mahlmann " (a study of a 

 peasant poetess of the Aml>r p); Ossip 



S-hiil.iir- -lleimkehr": F.ekstein's "Boderich 

 I.".hr": H.-rmann Hrilierg's " Kin d<.|.|.eltes I<-h " 

 and "Di.- Kixdorfl : i -.vorl der /.-it " 



(lifelike characterization) and - (lift." by 



.titz; Rosegger's"D Lieht: 



dung aus den S<-hri! \Valdpfan 



Wilhelmine von Hillern's "Kin alter Streit 

 cri- irtit Bavarian eu-t.m of - 1 1 



feMt- Ida Boy-Ed'i u Nichts n atid " Kine 



\nnie liock's" I m.,d- 



ern. ohj.-etive; heroine well character!. 



itor Familie: I.,-id. 



lirer-ted _ 



the sjrstem of education ..f VOUIIL' :>-<lwig 



Dohm's "Sibil la Delmnr" (a 'characteristic pi<ture 

 of the dissatisfied wife,: s-h.- /u Art : 



Max Hall^'j* Fran Me^-ek : i-im- I),,. f_-, ^ |, ; 



Dollar" and " Vornehme Pmletarier": and a i^roup 

 of historical noveU ,,ra iil)in. 



("peculiar t.. h,.i. r . command of mat.- 



m-t ciauM-n\ M Jndas." thoroogblj 



I'ontane'- Ids"; 



"Da,H Sabin.Ti:iit": "Theater." by Her- 

 mann Bahr. "a mat : Willy 



" I'rinzc.vin Si<]a" : A. Xaj.|.'> I . r Kamjf u 



Itath's 

 um den 



. \l-tian a-aini; !'. halm's 

 in "(\\ilh t'he author's usual excel- 

 l.-iiri.-s and faults) and "Kbrtiin": Kii-hanl N'oss's 

 " I'nter .1. urad Allierti'> " f rii- 



of Hildesheim I >ir S">hn. 



llerrn Budi\\"j " (-h.i\\in^ thorough hi-: 

 knowledge 



II'|ieM/"llern " (" the immst r.i>jt \ ( .f the character 

 and ' >f t lie sivle render it repul- 







1 ..-eliieliteail- I.<M|./m'- alt. 11 Tagell." \ 



short stories ai .Mannertreu.- 



- \ errallu -lies (iliiek. Km. 



and " I>a- Iliitli- 1 d< - I.i-b.-n> mid andeiv N..vell.-n," 

 by the virtuoso Paul lle\s,- t who turns rather mueh 

 to the descri|it ion of psycho-pathological and hys- 

 .: nature- : I'. \ 



taining, notably, M Reopie m d r I.: 



\\'ildenbrueh's "Der /auben-r < \ prianu- " i" |.ro- 

 founil in psychology " and " brilliant in colorii 

 h'iehard x.u'r M Paul Ai 



- Drei Novel len " (notably "Peter Paul." . n-inal. 



and fine in execution i ; .1. .1. I >a\ id'- " l-'ri'ih-. 



ormy story" : I. Ganghofcr'a - H-c-lilands- 

 ..hte'n " : L. II Xlihi'lleute " : L'udolf 



Lindau's " Tiirkische (ieseliichten " ; Ilcrn-m. 



" In Sachen des (ihiubriis uii<! \dal- 



bert Meinhardt's ** Norddcutsche L.-ute": Kom-ad 

 Telmann's " Lm-rccia " (simply entertaining, weak 

 in character drawing) and "Vox populi"; l-'.rn-t 

 Altkireli's " leh. der Trimmer" (rather li-ht v. 

 mood piYtuivs and phantasi.-- 

 fflllf (ieschicht'H." by ,lo-cf b'uederer (illiaL'il 

 acute observer, sat irist ); Walli (Jliick'- " I a- Miir- 

 chenschitT und An-:- - li'iuthan's 



bh und ('. W. Kadebeul \ Cie." and 

 tier Luft : Stimmungeti und (ie-chielr 

 i:. I!- : i i< '- Reine Ijiebe : (Jesehirhi.-i, 

 dem fernen Orient" (interesting descriptions ..f 

 Hans HotTmiinii'.s " Bo/em r .Maieheii 



11. Mareli " (poetical stories); (he late Ileilirieh 



!:.!. Iwei-x und Lorbeer : neue Bil.l. 

 Tirol" (mannered) : Detlef von LilieiuTon'> po| u- 

 lar" Kriegsnovellen": " AlteSchule: Kr/ahlui 

 lv Marie v. Kbner-Eschenbach, \\h-e hu-l-and 

 Mori/, in " Hypnosis pcrcnnis. Kin \\'und- 

 hciligcn Sebastian. Xw.-i Wi.-ner (Jex-hiehten." 

 shows qualities similar to those which distinguish 

 the work of his wife; Mine. Clara Suden: 



rin " : Mine. I..,u Andreas-Sal.'i 

 fremder Seele " and " Until " (fine charaet. ri/atioli : 

 lacks warmth): " Severin,'' simply and ncatl\ t"ld 

 by Anna. Countess pongrac/. ; and Maria .fanit- 

 schek's *' Vom W.-ib- ho\v- 



ing rampant sexualitvi. Carl Wolfs " Gcschichten 

 aus Tirol. :{. Sammlung" and " Dr i Kr/iihlun- 



.i-anf stories with feeling for dra- 

 and Wilhelm S<-hafer's " Die X hn (i. 

 Kr/iihlungen des Kanzclfriedrich " (plain, true pic- 

 tures of North (ierman peasant life) *<eem to ! ..I 



.iirally to those writers .f the people . f \\hoiu 

 Karl S-hrattenthal (j.seudonym of Karl Weis 

 edil'ir of " Dicht.Tstiiiiuicii an- dem Volko," ttfl 

 already introduced a number to the public. 



' issues are "Au- d.-m l.ayeri-ch, n \v 



lie peasant girl Kmere'n/ M i 

 \V5rther.ein Dichier und Denker au< h-m \'- 



pit felt, simple poetry, without phrase), and a 

 second edition of the poems of Slim- Andn 

 daughter of Schleswig-Holstein. who writ. - -imply 

 and from the heart. Schrattcnt hal upoflk 



the ciilture-hi-torical imfiortancr: of all such work, 

 a- indicating a new literary current, but some crit- 

 :!> that it is simply a matter of -xtravagaM 

 enthusiasm over " nature-poets." " Lyric arid nar- 



