New Englander and Yale Review (Volume 38) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1879. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 7'/ Abticlb IV.--RECENT FAUST LITERATURE. Goethe and Schiller: Their Lives and Works. Including a Commentary on Goethe's Faust By Hjalmar H. Boyesen. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1879. 424 pp. Goethe's Faust--Ersler Theil. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by James Morgan Hakt. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1878. 257 pp. Goethe, Vorlesungen gehalten an der Kgi. Universitat zu Berlin, von Herman Grimm. Berlin: Verlag von Wilhelm Hertz. 1877. Zwei Bande. pp. 314-303. Goethe's Faust, Neue Beitriige zur KritOc des Gedichts, von Friedrich Vischer. Stuttgart: Unger & Zeller's Verlag. 1875. 368 pp. The 'Faust' of Goethe does not lose its hold. As embodying the longings and experience of an intelligent and earnest mind, the stream of literature from it as a fountain seems every year to widen and deepen, and promises, like Homer's river of ocean on the shield of Achilles, to encircle the earth. We have had within a few months from American scholars two editions of the "Faust" with notes, and now the commentary of Mr. Boyesen offers another proof of the interest of our countrymen in this work of the greatest literary German. Undoubtedly the advance in German solidarity, the strides made by the German people towards unity, and, at the same time, towards cosmopolitanism, and the spreading conviction that in scholarship the Germans lead the world, have had much to do with the rapid growth of interest in the German language and literature during the past decade. But the far-reaching thought of the "Faust," its anticipation of the scientific and psychological struggles of this century, its pictures of human life now simple, now passionate, now tragic, and always truthful, have made it probably the best known composition in the German language. VOL. u. 23 To those who do not read German...