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THE
Prose Writers of Germany.
BY F. H. HEDGE.
ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS.
The work mentioned above comprises a list of the most eminent writers of Germany, together with copious extracts from their works, beginning with Luther and reaching up to the present time. For those who are interested in the literature of Germany, it presents a valuable aid in becoming more intimately acquainted with the German mind; and even to the curious it offers an excitement which will grow stronger in proportion as their taste is cultivated.
In the present volume we find valuable extracts, given from their prose writings. Although the writers follow in chronological order, and Luther stands at the head of his intellectual brethren, the longest space is allowed to those who claim our greatest attention; and Goethe therefore occupies the most conspicuous position both in the specimens given and the selection of the pieces. Goethe is a writer who requires most of all to be studied; while others, as Schiller, in his passionate mood and ideal longings, requires no silent and incessant reflection, because he works his effects immediately by rousing the depth of our nature. Next to Goethe, Schiller appears in an article upon Naïve and Sentimental Poetry, a bold effort of him, the success of which is however yet very disputed, to classify every produce of Art according to the impressions made upon the reader, and to dispense with the various and cumbersome forms of the departments into which we have been accustomed hitherto to arrange all subjects bearing upon poetry. The department upon which Schiller enters here, belongs properly to the philosophy of Art; to the aesthetics, the investigation of the beautiful.