“To my mind the most satisfactory recent defence of the fundamental elements of American character is to be found in Barrett Wendell’s ‘Liberty, union, and democracy.’”
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Reviewed by Horatio S. Krans.
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Werder, Karl. Heart of Hamlet’s mystery; tr. from the German by Elizabeth Wilder; with introd. by W. J. Rolfe. **$1.50. Putnam.
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Some of the lectures delivered by Professor Werder in Berlin 1859–60, which graphically present his theory that Hamlet was obliged by circumstances to delay his revenge in order to unmask and convict the king. They also contain a critical summary of the whole drama and discussions upon other disputed points.