The text of this edition of the first part of Faust is that of Erich Schmidt, in the Jubiläumsausgabe of Goethe’s works, to which the editor has added an illuminating introduction and excellent notes.
“Altogether, this edition of Faust is a credit to American scholarship and an important step in the development of sound methods in the academic study of German literature.”
| + + | Nation. 84: 344. Ap. 11, ’07. 330w. |
“He has been able to vitalize rather than stifle the imagination in reading the poet’s pages, and to enrich the reader philosophically rather than tantalize him with evasive verbiage of metaphysical dissertation.”
| + | N. Y. Times. 12: 295. My. 4, ’07. 250w. |
Gomperz, Theodor. Greek thinkers: a history of ancient philosophy, v. 3. *$4. Scribner.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
“In less than one hundred pages, and in a style eminently luminous and readable, the author has condensed a wealth of interpretation and criticism which can only be described as masterly.” Lewis Campbell.
| + + | Hibbert J. 5: 439. Ja. ’07. 5320w. (Review of v. 3, pt. 1.) |