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hensive genius on the high pedestal, from which he 

 commands the admiration and yet attracts the 

 sympathy of thinkers, for Herder was a writer for 

 thinkers rather than for the mass. More elaborate 

 than either of these, and not less thorough and 

 careful is the study of Goethe. . . . We do 

 not agree with all the judgments we find here on 

 the individual work of the great German, but we 

 welcome with sincere satisfaction an effective and 

 serious protest against that tyranny of art for art's 

 sake, which has come to be common in England 

 and Germany, to the detriment often of honour, 

 morality, and simple faith." The Globe. 



" On one point we cannot but think that the view 

 here given of Lessing is more correct than that 

 generally received. Dr. Japp has shown conclu- 

 sively that Lessing was not a mere rude denier of 

 inspiration and revelation, but a profound believer 

 in certain fundamental truths. . . . Those who 

 wish to know Lessing as a theologian, and who 

 cannot read the language in which he wrote, will 

 find a sufficiently full account of his opinions in 

 this volume. It is with regret that we leave un- 

 quoted many passages of beauty bearing upon 

 religion, as apprehended by Lessing and Mendel- 

 ssohn. . . . This book is not one that can be 

 borrowed from a circulating library, and read pro- 

 fitably through in a few days. It is one to which 

 the student of letters will often recur. We cor- 

 dially recommend it to our readers." Nonconformist. 



"Dr. Japp has treated his subject exhaustively 

 and from many points of view. But perhaps none 

 of these essays will be read at this time with a 

 livelier interest than that on Moses Mendelssohn. 



