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Winckelmann, Mendelssohn, and others, and a 

 keenly critical estimate of their work. He sharply 

 discriminates their merits and faults, and determines 

 with much solid argument their relative positions. 

 Students of the great German dramatists will read his 

 biting criticisms with interest." Dundee Adveitiset. 



" We lay aside Dr. Japp's volume with the feeling 

 that is the fruit of careful and loving study, and 

 that in it we have the most valuable contibution of 

 recent years to the history of German literature." 

 Glasgow Herald. 



" Gives, as no previous work known to us gives, 

 a wonderfully lucid and concise conception of the 

 course of German thought and culture, and of the 

 leading forces which have partly moulded, partly 

 been moulded by it, since that great Aufklarung, 

 which ushered in Germany's splendid and first truly 

 national literary epoch. When to this we add that, 

 throughout his present volume, Dr. Japp writes 

 with all his accustomed ease and flow of style, it 

 will be seen that he has produced for us a work 

 which has the merit of being extremely readable 

 as well as interesting and instructive. . . . The 

 study of Lessing, with which he starts in his survey, 

 is admirable and sympathetic, recognising in Les- 

 sing, as he does, the forerunner and prime mover of 

 the whole subsequent intellectual upheaval. 

 The analysis of Lessing's life and work is as ad- 

 mirable for clearness and conciseness of treatment 

 as it is for the many points of fresh interest re- 

 vealed in them. It need hardly be said that the 

 effect of both is to deepen our impression of the 

 beauty and nobleness of Lessing's character, and to 

 make us feel how important and enduring has been 

 his influence." Aberdeen Daily Free Press. 



