NEW BOOKS 19 



GERMAN LIFE AND LITERATURE : 



In a series of Biographical Studies. 



By ALEXANDER H. JAPP, LL.D. 8vo., 125. 



CONTENTS. 



Lessing. 



Winckelmann. 



Moses Mendelssohn 



Herder. 



Goethe. 



Ludwig Tieck. 



Novalis. 



Romantic Element in German Literature. 



German Philosophy and Political Life. 



OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. 



" Dr. Japp writes with profound and varied know- 

 ledge, and the thoroughness and earnestness with 

 which in nearly every instance he has done his 

 work deserve hearty recognition. He calls no man 

 master in the sense that he has accepted, no read- 

 ings of character, and no interpretation of works at 

 second hand. His judgments of Lessing, Herder, 

 and Goethe in particular, are marked by indepen- 

 dence and individuality. Those who have made 

 special studies of these great writers will be the first 

 to acknowledge a debt to Dr. Japp, when they have 

 read his estimates and remarks. His criticism of 

 the strong points of Lessing, for example, is acute 

 and often subtle, yet he never loses sight in the 

 multitude of details of the main object in which he 

 is intent, of drawing the man and his work, showing 

 in his character and career, and what has been done 

 and achieved through these, in relation to German 

 literature. There is much refinement of analysis 

 in the study of Herder, which places that compre- 



