| + — | N. Y. Times. 10: 370. Je. 10, ‘05. 4070w. |
“Has handled his material well or ill according as his readers expect sociology or fiction, for there is something of both and not enough of either.”
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Sudermann, Hermann. St. John’s fire; tr. by Grace E. Polk. $1. H. W. Wilson co.
One of three translations of strong new foreign plays appearing in America in the last three years, the other two being Edith Wharton’s translation of Sudermann’s “Joy of Living,” and Coleman’s translation of Maeterlinck’s “Monna Vauna.” The dramatist uses an old German peasant custom of lighting bonfires and dancing round them on St. John’s eve as an allegorical background for his play. The custom dates back to heathen times, and the author in working out his plot makes the fires symbolize the outburst in the human soul, after Christian centuries, of the wild yearnings and primeval passions of the unregenerate man.
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“Miss Polk’s translation is at once faithful to the spirit and letter of the original, and to the idiom of our own tongue. It is neither slavish nor careless.” Mary Gray Peck.
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Suess, Eduard. Face of the earth (Das antlitz der erde); tr. by Hertha B. C. Sollas, 5v. v. I. [*]$8.35. ([*]25s.) Oxford.
Volume I. of a five volume edition. “Vol. I., which contains four maps and fifty other illustrations, is divided into two parts. Part I. deals with ‘The movements in the outer crust of the earth’—floods, cyclones, seismic areas, dislocations, volcanoes, earthquakes, etc.; Part II. is devoted to ‘The mountain ranges of the earth’—the ‘Northern foreland of the Alpine system,’ ‘The trend-lines of the Alpine system,’ ‘The basin of the Adriatic,’ ‘The Mediterranean,’ the Great desert plateau, the Indian mountains, the mountains of South America, the Antilles, North America, and the mountains separating the continents.” (N. Y. Times.)