McCLURE’S MAGAZINE. 
“A PROFESSOR OF BOOKS” 
we do not like to remain without at least a 
general and historical view of Goethe's tre- 
mendous activ ity, and, furthermore, if we go 
-vond ‘‘ Faust” or ceW ilhelm Meister,” we 
are—the most of us—lost in a sea of co njec- 
ture as to which of tre remaining sixty-eight 
volumes we shall attack. 
How happily has Mr. Warner here come to 
the President of - Goethe Society of Eng- 
land. The assignment was most fitting, as 
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the greatest poets who ever lived--no one 
questions that. And yet what great poet ever 
so much fine wheat mixed with so much 
chaff? Dr. R. utton, the editor of the 
London Spectator, Sat one of the sanest ei 
most appreciative of living critics, has chos 
for this Library the best of Wordemcenr 
poetry, and has planned such further journeys 
through the poet’s writings as the reader 
may W wish to take 
And so we might goon. But we think we 
have made clear to the reader that which 
struck us so forcibly when we looked into 
the Emerson section, ait hich Sante Mr. 
Warner has, rary, succeeded in 
satisfying the great wii which Emerson 
there so well Seed tad of a ‘* professor of 
books.” Exactly as the professor of chem 
istry or physics or astronomy or biology re 
the student a view of the whole field of his 
seience, the summary of its achievements, 
its great names and its great works, so Mr. 
Warner na his associates have given us the 
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first edition is being distributed. 
plates, he publishers, instead “ Pap iret 
the price, have actually reduced it nearly 
half, so as to cuickly — a ras sets in each 
community for 
The d oat ert for a — desirable — 
edition is so active and the number of set 
allotted to be distributed is so limited, it ic 
safest for those who really covet this invalu- ; 
— Library of Mr. Warner's to write atonce © 
o Harper’s Weekly Club, 91 Fifth Avenue, 
ol York, for sample 
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prices to members of the Club now fens, 
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