The New England magazine . bout twenty-eight pages of notes and a selected listof publications upon Henrik Ibsen, alsoa complete index. Professor Heller isprofessor of the German language andliterature in Washington University,St. Louis. In Professor Hellers Henrik IbesnPlays and Problems, the subject ofthe Norwegian dramatist (and I in-sist that he is first, foremost, and almostsolely dramatist, a writer for the stage)receives no new illumination. But inspite of a seeming forgetfulness as tosentence construction and in spite ofhis conviction as to Ibsens moral andreform quality of achievement
The New England magazine . bout twenty-eight pages of notes and a selected listof publications upon Henrik Ibsen, alsoa complete index. Professor Heller isprofessor of the German language andliterature in Washington University,St. Louis. In Professor Hellers Henrik IbesnPlays and Problems, the subject ofthe Norwegian dramatist (and I in-sist that he is first, foremost, and almostsolely dramatist, a writer for the stage)receives no new illumination. But inspite of a seeming forgetfulness as tosentence construction and in spite ofhis conviction as to Ibsens moral andreform quality of achievement thisnew work upon a not-new modern ofimportance is a work of serious andworthy import. Professor Heller evi-dently has an intimate acquaintanceof the man and of his entire literaryoutput. Whether or not one agreeswith his conclusions does not work is so full of scholarly in-formation that helps to the readersbetter forming his own opinion that itis a certainly valuable addition to thelist of Ibsen
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