. Review of reviews and world's work. hard, the colors definite and it is this very quality, this stern truthfulness, that,combined with a no less stern svippression of self, givesthe stories their high and peculiar quality. One maygo so far as to compare them to De Maupassants, thoughhardly to that masters best. A STRONG NOVEL OF MODERN GERMANY. A German novel the sale of wiiich reaches 200,000copies is something unheard of. But the unheard ofhas happened, and the novel is Jorn Uhl, by GustavFrenssen, Lutheran pastor in a Holstein village. (Thevery competent English translation is b
. Review of reviews and world's work. hard, the colors definite and it is this very quality, this stern truthfulness, that,combined with a no less stern svippression of self, givesthe stories their high and peculiar quality. One maygo so far as to compare them to De Maupassants, thoughhardly to that masters best. A STRONG NOVEL OF MODERN GERMANY. A German novel the sale of wiiich reaches 200,000copies is something unheard of. But the unheard ofhas happened, and the novel is Jorn Uhl, by GustavFrenssen, Lutheran pastor in a Holstein village. (Thevery competent English translation is by F. S. Estes & Co., Boston. Archibald Constable, Lon-don.) It is very interesting to note that this novel,which has appealed so profoundly and immediately tothe German people, is powerful rather than original,deliberately thoughtful and carefully wrought ratherthan striking; that, finally, it is the culmination, notthe creation, of a genre. Up to a certain point, noteven the central theme of the book is new. Was not. GUSTAV FRENSSEN. (Frontispiece reduced.) the fate of Paul in Sudermanus Frau Sorge verymuch the same as Jiirns,—a delicate soul born out ofplace amid this hard and brawling peasant folk ? ButJorn, unlike Paul, works out for himself, throughpeace and war, sorrow and travail, a triumphant sal-vation. The strength of the book lies in its style (neces-sarily lost through translation), severely simple, yetevery word and form pregnant with associations of the Germanic past; inits rich humanity ;in its liberal yet byno means revolution-ary point of of strangethings! Upon thesurface, this modernGermany seems giv-en entirely to theworship of new godswhose p r o p h e t isNietzsche. And thencomes a simple Lu-theran parson, writesin simple Germanwords, — free of allmodern tricks andturns,—the story ofa deep and strongman, who at the endof years of wearinessand bitter hardshipsays : To have faithis everything,—faith, that is, in ultimate goo
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