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LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1898. 



nand Tunnies (showing the waning of Nietzsche 

 worship) : John Henry Mackay's " i\f ax Stirner : sem 

 Leben und sein \Verk," a glorification of the apostle 

 of egoism: "Max Stirners kleinere Schrifteii. 

 Hgb. von J. H. Mackay"; and Priedrich Jodl's 

 " Psychologie " (empirical, concise, comprehensive). 

 Literary history and criticism are supplied in the 

 Jesuit Alexander Baumgartner's "Geschiehte der 

 Weltliteratur " (one-sided, but comprehensive and 

 attractively presented) and a life of Goethe (from 

 author's standpoint); Ernst Elster's suggestive 

 " Prinzipien der Literaturwissenschaft" ; "Zur 

 neueren Literaturgeschichte" ("Schriften zur 

 Kritik und Literaturgeschichte") by Michael Ber- 

 nays; Arthur Eloesser's instructive "Das biirger- 

 liche Drama. Seine Geschiehte ira 18. und 

 I'.i Juhrhundert" ; Priedrich Spielhagen's " Neue 

 Beitrage zur Theorie und Technik der Epik.und 

 Dramiitik"; "Renaissance. Ncue Studien zur 

 Kritik der Moderne " (on art and literature), by 

 Hermann Bahr, himself quite modern; "Schwa- 

 bische Literaturgeschichte, by Rudolf Krauss ; G. 

 Waniek's monumental " Gottsched und die deutsche 

 Literatur seiner Zeit " ; Schubart's interesting 

 "Goethe's Konigslieutenant" (shown to have been 

 Count Thea de Thorenc) ; " Auf Goethes Spuren in 

 Italien," by Julius R. Haarhaus ; il J. G. Seurne : 

 Geschiehte seines LebensundseinerSchriften," byO. 

 Planer and C. Reissmann (fine literary monument) ; 

 Paul Schlenther's "Gerhart Hauptmann, sein Le- 

 bensgang und seine Dichtung" (sympathetic, just, 

 reserved), "Gerhart Hauptmann, by Adolf Bar- 

 tels (oracular, presumptuous), and U. C. Woerncr's 

 "Gerhart Hauptmann (unpretentious, thoughtful) ; 

 Jacob Minor's "Ferdinand von Saar: cine Studie" 

 (a model of sensitive and appreciative analysis); 

 Eduard Heyck's " Geschiehte der Allgemeinen Zei- 

 tung, 1798-1898 " (issued in honor of its centenary ; 

 ' interesting contribution to the literary and so- 

 cial development of the German people " ) ; Au- 

 gust DOring's interesting " Hamlet. Ein neuer Ver- 

 such zur asthetischen Erklarung der TragOdie"; 

 Hans Laehr-Zehlendorf's "Die Darstellung krank- 

 hafter Geisteszustande in Shakespeare's Dramen " 

 (from the psychiatrist's standpoint); Erich Meyer's 

 " Die Entwicklung der franzosischen Litteratur 

 seit 1830" (suggestive; an advance on what is usu- 

 ally offered on this subject); Harold Hoffding's 

 Koiisseau und seine Philosophe" (clear, concise, 

 most satisfactory commentary) ; and Marie Herz- 

 feld's " Die skandinavische Litteratur und ihre Ten- 

 denzen. nebst anderen Essays." In the literature of 

 art we have W. Nagel's very good '* Geschiehte der 

 Musik in Kugland " (1894-'97); new Brahms litera- 

 ture J. V. Widmann's affectionate and apprecia- 

 tive character picture " Erinncrungen an Johannes 

 Brahms." A. Dietrich's " Krinnerungen an Johan- 

 nes Brahms in Briefen, besonders aus seiner Jugend- 

 zeit," "Johannes Brahms," by II. Deiters, H. Rei- 

 mann's "Johannes Brahms" (hardly introspective), 

 " Johannes Brahms. Erlauterung seiner bedeutend- 

 sten Werko, von C. Beyer, R. Ileuberger und an- 

 deren "(not entirely satisfactory) Wendelin Weiss- 

 heimer's "Erlebnisse init Richard Wagner, Franz 

 Lis/t und vielen anderen Zeitgenossen "; Hans von 

 Bulow's letters ; Theodor Billroth's " Wer ist inu- 

 sikalischt" (correspondence); "Eduard von Stein- 

 le's Briefwechsel init seinen Freunden " ("the cor- 

 respondence of a German prerapliaelite," of the 

 " Nazarene" school, a " precious witness of the no- 

 bility of his intentions ) ; and F. F. Leitsehuh's 

 "Das Wesen der modernen Landschaftsmalcrei " 

 (incoherent, wants arrangement, says one; com- 

 mendable, another). Prose fiction has its usual list 

 of well-known names, and some unfamiliar ones: 

 Ernst von Wildenbruch's "Tiefe Wasser: 5 Erziih- 

 lungen " (" Waidfrau " the finest) ; Fd. v. Saar's 



"Novellen aus Oesterreich " (essentially Austrian) : 

 the refined writer Adalbert Meinhardt's " Unter- 

 wegs," " Das Leben ist golden," and " Heinz Kirch- 

 ner " ; A. Wilbrandt's " Die glilckliche Frau " (adds 

 nothing to author's reputation) ; the oft-fantastic 

 Wilh. Jensen's " Das Bild ira Wasser" and "Ein 

 Heilmittel. Novelle " ; " Die Frau des Weisen," by 

 Arthur Sehnitzler (a moralist, not erotic, we are 

 told) ; E. Wichert's " Monte Carlo und andere Ge- 

 schichten " ; Georg Freiherr von Ompteda's " Maria 

 da Caza," " Der Zeremonienmeister (faithful pic- 

 ture of affairs in Saxony, seasoned by fine humor), 

 and " Weibliche Menschen : Novellen"; "Schwie- 

 gertochter" and " Nachgelassene Novellen" (rather 

 superficial), by Alexander Baron von Roberts; Adolf 

 Stern's " Ausgewahlte Novellen " (selected " with 

 strictest self-criticism " from his published work) ; 

 Adolf Pichler's "Gesamrnelte Erzahlungen" (sub- 

 jective, memoirlike stories of Tyrolean life); 11. 

 Hansjakob's sympathetic " Waldleute " ; " Der Gra- 

 benhager," an " agrarian novel," by Wilhelm von 

 Polenz; "Von zarter Hand," " Unter Zigeunern" 

 and " Quitt," by J. R. zur Megede (much praised 

 and read) ; " Der Ehe Ring. Novellen," by Ernst 

 Clausen (Claus Zehren), who observes well and tells 

 a good story ; " Die Intriganten : ein brandenbur- 

 gisch-preussischer Roman" and "Der gernordete 

 Wald : ein Bauernroman aus der Mark," by Fd. 

 v. Zobeltitz ; " Antje Bergholm " and " Die Genc- 

 ralsgohre" (interesting picture of military circles), 

 by H. von Zobeltitz ; " Fanar und Mayfair," by 

 Rudolf Lindau, who again indulges his love for the 

 exotic ; Peter Rosegger's personal " Mein Weltleben, 

 oder wie es detn Waldbauernbuben bei den Stadt- 

 leuten erging" ; Jakob Wassermann's " Die Judeu 

 von Zirndorf " (fantastically personifying the mod- 

 ern Jewish question by characteristic figures); Ar- 

 thur Zapp's " Drei Madchen : eine Internationale 

 Liebesgeschichte " ; " Jugendgenossen. Roman, " 

 by Karl Manno (pseudonym of C. v. Lemcke), a 

 novelist of the old school ; the late Kr. Telmann's 

 " Gottbegnadet " and " Das Ende vom Lied " (one of 

 his best); Hs. Hoffmann's " Allerlei Gelehrte"; 

 " Die Dithmarscher. Historischer Roman." by Adolf 

 Bartels, the literary critic ; Guido List's historic and 

 patriotic novel " Carnuntum " ; " Der Arme Conrad " 

 (deals with Peasants' War of 1525) and " Der weisse 

 Tod. Roman aus der Gletscherwelt," by Rudolf 

 Stratz ; Greg. Samarow's " Transvaal. Roman aus 

 dem siidafrikanischen Leben der Gegenwart " and 

 "Eine goldene Feder''; " Sirenenliebe," by H. A. 

 Kriiger, a newcomer; " Von zwei Geschwistern," two 

 posthumous novelettes by Otto Sachs (very promis- 

 ing talent, died in 1897 at the age of twenty-eight); 

 Benno Riittenauer's "Zwei Rassen "; Karl Bleibtreu's 

 " Freie Liebe" (disappointing) ; Gustav Wolff's short 

 stories" Die Beichte des Mimchs" (intimate soul 

 description); Heinz Tovoto's" Abschied. Novellen" 

 (mostly " worm-eaten ") ; and new works by women : 

 Ilse Frapan's new volume of old-fashioned stories 

 of Hamburg life and " In der Stille " ; the Swiss 

 writer Goswine von Bcrlepsch's " Mann und Weib " 

 (stories of Vienna); " Fraulein Doctor " (entei-s into 

 the peculiar atmosphere of Zurich) and " Erzahlung- 

 en " (includes 3 stories, of which " Der Mondreigen 

 von Schlaraffis" was also published separately), by 

 Ricarda Huch (a German living in Switzerland); 

 Wilhelmine von Hillern's " 'S Reis am Wege " (com- 

 prehension of the Bavarian peasant soul ; command 

 of psychological detail) : Marie von Bunsen's ad- 

 mirable "Ein alltaglk'hcs Paar " (dealing, like her 

 previous works, with Berlin's upper classes); Ossip 

 Schubin's " Wenn's nur schon Winter war' ! " ; Clara 

 Viebig's " Rheinlandstochter" and "Kinder der 

 Eifel. Novellen " (" unusual power of indirect char- 

 acterization "): " Aus dem Sonnenflimmern. Novel- 

 len und Erzahlungen," by Wanda von Bartels 



