. The literary digest. poetry. . Wesee nothing of the wilderness, and the pomp of Herods court islittle more than an opera background. Johannes comes at timesdangerously near being a modern play in historical costume. We 400 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [April 2, 1898 do not look to Sudermann for the lyric beauty of Grillparzer, butwe at least expect something of the historical sense that marksIbsens Emperor and Galilean. With all respect for the changethat has come over artistic canons since the decay of Romanti-cism, we feel, after reading a play like Johannes, that there isafter all a good deal of
. The literary digest. poetry. . Wesee nothing of the wilderness, and the pomp of Herods court islittle more than an opera background. Johannes comes at timesdangerously near being a modern play in historical costume. We 400 THE LITERARY DIGEST. [April 2, 1898 do not look to Sudermann for the lyric beauty of Grillparzer, butwe at least expect something of the historical sense that marksIbsens Emperor and Galilean. With all respect for the changethat has come over artistic canons since the decay of Romanti-cism, we feel, after reading a play like Johannes, that there isafter all a good deal of truth in Goethes axiom that verse is theonly possible medium for the higher drama. AN HISTORIC ART CONTROVERSY. THE recent death of William J. Linton, the engraver, revivesmemories of a very lively controversy that raged in Amer-ica a generation ago and of which he was the initiator and chieffigure. Mr. Lintons theories of the art of engraving were finallyoverborne, but he never surrendered, and he died, as one may. Y (•^r^.^y <!L<^i/*y-^~p^
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