By Prof. Edward Everett Hale, Jr., of Union College. With gilt top, $1.50 net. (By mail, $1.60.)
An informal discussion of their principal plays and of the performances of some of them. The volume opens with a paper "On Standards of Criticism," and concludes with "Our Idea of Tragedy," and an appendix of all the plays of each author, with dates of their first performance or publication.
New York Evening Post: "It is not often nowadays that a theatrical book can be met with so free from gush and mere eulogy, or so weighted by common sense ... an excellent chronological appendix and full index ... uncommonly useful for reference."
Dial: "Noteworthy example of literary criticism in one of the most interesting of literary fields.... Well worth reading a second time."
THE GERMAN DRAMA OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
By Georg Witkowski. Translated by Prof. L. E. Horning. 12mo. $1.00.
Kleist, Grillparzer, Hebbel, Ludwig, Wildenbruch, Sudermann, Hauptmann, and minor dramatists receive attention.
New York Times Review: "The translation of this brief, clear, and logical account was an extremely happy idea. Nothing at the same time so comprehensive and terse has appeared on the subject, and it is a subject of increasing interest to the English-speaking public."
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