. Review of reviews and world's work . ote the judgment of Mary CarolineCrawford, in her book, Goethe and His WomanFriends)* an astonishingly good man. Mis?Crawford skillfully pilots her way through thestory of Goethes loves and friendships with theother sex, which has always been a sort of literarypuzzle. The various ladies whose charms influ-enced the great German author: Gretchen, Fred-erica, Charlotte, Lili, Baroness von Stein, AngelicaKaufi^mann, Christiane, Bettina von Arnim, and allthe others, are marched past us and made to seem,after all, charming, sympathetic, and is
. Review of reviews and world's work . ote the judgment of Mary CarolineCrawford, in her book, Goethe and His WomanFriends)* an astonishingly good man. Mis?Crawford skillfully pilots her way through thestory of Goethes loves and friendships with theother sex, which has always been a sort of literarypuzzle. The various ladies whose charms influ-enced the great German author: Gretchen, Fred-erica, Charlotte, Lili, Baroness von Stein, AngelicaKaufi^mann, Christiane, Bettina von Arnim, and allthe others, are marched past us and made to seem,after all, charming, sympathetic, and is a very interesting chapter on Goethesmother and sister. The pictures, of which thereare nearly a hundred, have been collected mainly bythe author herself. Frederic Harrison, author, publicist, public man,positivist, philosopher, educator, political econo-mist, and authority on jurisprudence, who is now «Goethe and His Woman Friends. By Mary CarolineCrawford. Little, Brown & Co. 452 pp., ill. $3. 760 THE AMERICAX REVIEW OF REVIEWS. IIARRISOX IX lyoS(Mis favorite portrait) (.•ntcriiig (jii tlic eighty-first year of liis life, confesses(hat he has never been able to cure himself of thehabit of putting down on paper what he thinks andwhat he sees. Retaining a clear memory of thee\ents and hal)its of four reigns during a momen-tous epoch in English history, Mr. Harrison hascome t(j regard himself almost as among the an-cestors of the young to-day. Therefore, he fan-cies, the modern world may care to hear what heremembers of the past, and what he anticipates asthe issue of the \ast changes he has witnessed inlife and in thought. He has just given us, in two\olumes, his Autobiographic Memoirs.^ These\olumes arc crowded with personal experiences andobservations of British history- for si\t\ years,including a personal acquaintance with almost allthe great minds of the Victorian age. Mr. Harri-son believes, and expresses this belief reverenth inhis closing pages, that there
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