Rolland’s great book is not merely a glorious revelation of the fact that all the greatest ideas that France has given the world live ever in the French people. It demonstrates also that mankind needs the French spirit always in order to realize them.
[1] See my article in Verk och Människor, in which I endeavored to show my countrymen the value to them of Memoiren einer Idealistin.
[2] Histoire de l’Opera en Europe, avant Lully et Scarlatti, (Les origines du theatre lyrique modern), and also Les causes de la decadence de la peinture italienne.
[3] In a preface to Celles qui travaillent, a work of the notable and sincere French authoress, Simone Bodève.
[4] In a letter to Goethe, 1795, after reading Wilhelm Meister.
[5] Epitome of the introduction to Michael Angelo.
[6] Lack of space forces me to omit Miss Key’s interesting but very long analysis of Jean Christophe.—The Editor.
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