Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Half-Hours With the Best Foreign Authors, Vol. 2: German
The literature of Germany, the subject of the present volume, has a character and tendencies of its own, which call for some preliminary observations, while its history presents interesting problems for the consideration of the student. NO one to-day can accuse the Germans of the lack of an original literary genius; yet for centuries their literature lagged in a sort of half life behind the literatures of England, France, and Italy, and it is only in a minor sense of Spontaneous growth. A strong impulse from with out was needed to arouse this nation of deep thinkers to an appreciation of their own intellectual powers.
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