Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ore accurately than everbefore, its birth inspirations and its legitimate uses. It must keep evenpace with the demands for it. A world crying for intellectual bread couldnot be put off with an antiquated stone. Without closer analysis, the above is true of the literature of all leadingand writing
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . ore accurately than everbefore, its birth inspirations and its legitimate uses. It must keep evenpace with the demands for it. A world crying for intellectual bread couldnot be put off with an antiquated stone. Without closer analysis, the above is true of the literature of all leadingand writing peoples who have kept touch with the centurys progress. Butit is especially true in the literature of English speaking peoples. Historyhas, in accordance with a growing spirit of research, become more truthful,philosophy more expressive, and science more exact. The outcrop of hooksshows the yearnings of the century, nol only as to their number but as totheme and treatment. Authors have multiplied as during no other worldsera, and the proportion of those who have attained permanent distinctionwas never larger. German literature, says Professor Ford, in -Self Culture for February,1899, has had its measure of ups and downs, hut its first age was it- 216 TRIUMPHS AND WONDERS OF THE XIX™ CENTURY. GEOROE BANCROFT. golden age. From the beginning of the century to the present day is a farcry in German letters. Romanticism, idealism, realism —the Fatherlandhas lived through them all. And for what \ In a land of scholars no greatphilosopher; among hosts of verse-makers no great poet; among innumer-able story-writers-, not one who has be-come known over a continent. •• Still these last years in Germanyhave not been without some good workdone, though often achieved under thespur of wrong ideals and impropermotives. From the days of 48, whenYoung Germany felt for the first timethe seductive charm of revolutionism,a new feeling has possessed Germanliterature — a feeling that the p
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