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LITERATURE, CONTINENTAL, IN 1899. 



Poete (impressions of works of pictorial and 

 plastic art) ; Montier's L'ldeale Jeunesse (preface 

 by Sully-Prudhomme) ; Pay sages et Pay sans, by 

 M. Rollinat (" the singer of rural splendors, of 

 extravagances and terrors"; his poems "smell 

 of the heather"); Phocas le Jardinier, delicate 

 vcrs fibres by the Franco-American Francis 

 Vifiie-Griffin (" of all French poets of the present 

 day the poet who is most truly French"), pub- 

 lished by the Societe du Mercure de France (the 

 Mercure, founded in 1072, being now "the ex- 

 ponent of all that is modern in thought and 

 art"); Richepin's La Bombarde (chansons) ; E. 

 de Chaillac's Vers de Bohome; 11. de Montes- 

 quiou's Les Perles rouges : 93 Sonnets historiques ; 

 and Andre Magre's Poemes de la Solitude. The 

 first complete edition of Stephane Mallarme's 

 poems has been published in Brussels. Les An- 

 nees funestes, by Victor Hugo manuscript verses 

 gathered by his executors are said to show " all 

 his faults without any of his great qualities." 

 In dramatic literature some successes financial, 

 literary, or both and various praiseworthy 

 works* are noted: Henri Lavedan's Le Vieux 

 Marcheur (refined and graceful derision of con- 

 temporary follies); Le Berceau (a "tendency 

 drama'' against divorce; rather didactic), by 

 Brieux, who does not follow beaten paths; M. de 

 Curel's Nouvelle Idole (also a play with an idea; 

 author's talent described as rich, forceful, and 

 bold); Mauric Donnay's Le Torrent ("first two 

 acts entertaining; the rest wearisome and weak ") 

 and Georgette Lemeunier ("powers of mocking 

 fancy"; delightful digressions); Jean Richepin's 

 Les Truands (has a certain brilliancy) ; G. An- 

 cey's L'Avenir (bitterly pessimistic) ; F. Vande- 

 rem's Le Calice; Pierre Loti's Judith Renaudin 

 (" beautiful details," " scenes of intimate po- 

 etry "); Paul Meurice's Struensee (a return to 

 the romantic drama as exemplified by Hugo) ; 

 the historical dramas Plus que Reine (the story 

 of the Empress Josephine), by E. Bergerat; Le 

 Roi de Rome (introducing Napoleon's son), by 

 Pouvillon; Mme. De Lavalette, by E. Moreau; 

 and the newcomer Remain Rolland's Le Tri- 

 omphe de la Raison (" strongly influenced by 

 Renan and Taine"; "well received"). J. Aicard 

 has adapted Shakespeare's Othello. 



The White Terror, by F6lix Gras, finishes the 

 trilogy of the French Revolution, The Reds of 

 the Midi and The Terror having preceded it. 



Germany. Works on various phases of the 

 country's history include Hohenzollern- Jahrbuch : 

 Forschungen und Abbildungen zur Geschichte 

 der Hohenzollern in Brandenburg-Preussen, He- 

 rausgegeben von Paul Seidel; Zweiter Jahrgang, 

 1898; M. v. Poschinger's Kaiser Friedrich. In 

 neuer quellenmassiger Darstellung; H. Pigge's 

 Die religiose Toleranz Friedrichs des Grossen nach 

 ihrer theoretischen und praktischen Seite (a 

 thorough study, which considers also in detail 

 the king's treatment of the Roman Catholic 

 Church in Silesia) ; Julius Dieffenbacher's suc- 

 cinct description of Deutsches Leben im 12. Jahr- 

 hundert; and M. Bar's Die deutsche Flotte von 

 1848-1852. To Bismarck are devoted Hans Blum's 

 Fiirst Bismarck und seine Zeit (Vol. VII) ; Tage- 

 buchblatter, by Moritz Busch; Ernst Schwe- 

 ninger's Dem Andenken Bismarck's: zum 1 April, 

 1899; and an interesting collection of caricatures, 

 Bismarck in der Karikatur, with text by K. 

 Walther. Further titles in history are Alfr. 

 Dove's Ausgewahlte Schriftchen vornehmlich his- 

 torischen Inhalts; Hs. Kraemer's Das XIX. Jahr- 

 hundert in Wort und Bild: Politische- und Kultur- 

 geschichte; P. D. Fischer's valuable and readable 

 Italien und die Italiener am Schlusse des 19. Jahr- 



hunderts: Betrachtungen und Studien iiber die 

 politischen, wirthschaftlichen und socialen Zu- 

 stiinde Italiens (comprehensive and concise) ; and 

 Siid-Amerika, unter besonderer Beriicksichtigung 

 Argentiniens, Nach den neuesten amtlichen Quel- 

 len und auf Grund eigener Anschauung (trust- 

 worthy), by P. Martens. What was once the 

 " Dark Continent " is illustrated in A. Boshart's 

 Zehn Jahre afrikanischen Lebens; E. Donat's 

 Kreuz und Quer durch Siid-Afrika: Reiseskizzen 

 und Bilder; K. Dove's Vom Kap zum Nil: Reise- 

 erinnerungen aus Siid-, Ost-, und Nordafrika; 

 Ed. Wickenburg's Wanderungen in Ost-Afrika; 

 K. Schwabe's Mit Schwert und Pflug in Deutsch- 

 Siidwestafrika; and A. Seidel's Transvaal, die 

 siidafrikanische Republik, historisch, geograph- 

 isch, politisch, wirthschaftlich dargestellt all 

 published in 1898. The East is the subject 

 of Rudolph Lindau's Zwei Reisen in der Turkei 

 and E. v. Hesse- Wartegg's Schantung und 

 Deutsch-China : Von Kiaoutschou ins Heilige 

 Land von China und vom Jangtsekiang nach 

 Peking im Jahre 1898. Noteworthy contributions 

 to biographical and memoir literature are J. 

 Friedrich's Ignaz von Dollinger: sein Leben auf 

 Grund seines schriftlichen Nachlasses dargestellt 

 (gives a " clear conception of the environment 

 in which the young man grew up," and furnishes 

 a " valuable contribution to the intellectual his- 

 tory of Germany ") ; Rudolf von Gottschall's Aus 

 meiner Jugend. Erinnerungen (sympathetic; in- 

 teresting character portraits of contemporaries) ; 

 Malwida v. Meysenbug's Der Lebensabend einer 

 Idealistin: Nachtrag zu den Memoiren einer 

 Idealistin (shows a youthful freshness unusual 

 in an octogenarian) ; and Andreas Moser's inter- 

 esting Joseph Joachim, ein Lebensbild. P. Horn's 

 Die deutsche Soldatensprache is a useful collec- 

 tion of colloquial phrases and terms peculiar to 

 the German soldier. T. Ziegler characterizes Die 

 geistigen und socialen Stromungen des 19. Jahr- 

 hunderts. Die Botschaft des Czars, by the Aus- 

 trian Freiherr Von Sacken, is a plea for " no 

 disarmament, but an ennobling reform of the de- 

 fensive and military system." Trusts are studied 

 by L. Pohle in Die Kartelle der gewerblichen 

 LTnternehmer. E. v. Hartmann has published Vol. 

 I of his Geschichte der Metaphysik. E. Haeckel, 

 in Die Weltrathsel: Gemeinverstandliche Studien 

 iiber monistische Philosophie, offers the result of 

 his philosophical studies. Of Heinrich Brunn's 

 Kleine Schriften, gesammelt von Hermann Brunn 

 und Heinrich Bulle, a number are published, as 

 originally written, in Italian. B. Riehl's Die 

 Kunst an der Brennerstrasse (1898) deals with the 

 art of Tyrol. Material worthy of note in the 

 field of literary history and criticism includes 

 T. A. Fischer's Leben und Werke Alfred Lord 

 Tennysons ; Richard Weltrich's Christian Wagner, 

 der Bauer und Dichter zu Warmbronn: Eine as- 

 thetisch-kritische und sozial-ethische Studie; 

 Klaus Groth : zu seinem 80. Geburtstage, by Adolf 

 Bartels (exhaustive characterization) and Klaus 

 Groth : sein Leben und seine Werke, by H. Siercks 

 (fuller, less critical), both issued on occasion of 

 the eightieth birthday of the Plattdeutsch poet, 

 who died since then; N. Welter's comprehensive 

 and sympathetic Frederi Mistral, der Dichter der 

 Provence (discusses also the politico-literary im- 

 portance of the Felibrige) . Arthur Moller-Bruck's 

 Moderne Literatur in Gruppen- und Einzeldar- 

 stellungen and Praludien, by Franz Servaes, are 

 two noteworthy contributions to the history of 

 modern German literature; A. Bettelheiin's Acta 

 diurna: Gesammelte Aufsatze; neue Folge ("give 

 a fresh sense of the great wealth of literary tal- 

 ent and earnest spiritual endeavor stored up in 



