. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. and wide favor, and were widely trans-lated. They rank among the authors most pleasing and successfulproductions, stamped as they are with that truth which a writer likeAuerbach, or a painter like Defregger or Schmidt, can express whensitting down to deal, with the scenes and folk which from earlyyouth have been photographed upon his heart and memory. In 1856there followed in the same descriptive field his Barfiissele* (LittleBarefoot), Joseph im Schnee (Joseph in the Snow: 1861), andEdelweiss (1861). His writings of this date—tales
. Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern. and wide favor, and were widely trans-lated. They rank among the authors most pleasing and successfulproductions, stamped as they are with that truth which a writer likeAuerbach, or a painter like Defregger or Schmidt, can express whensitting down to deal, with the scenes and folk which from earlyyouth have been photographed upon his heart and memory. In 1856there followed in the same descriptive field his Barfiissele* (LittleBarefoot), Joseph im Schnee (Joseph in the Snow: 1861), andEdelweiss (1861). His writings of this date—tales, sketches journa-listic, political, and dramatic, and other papers — reveal Auerbachsvarying moods or enthusiasms, chronicle his residence in differentGerman or Austrian cities, and are comparatively insignificant amonghis forty or more volumes. Nor is much to be said of his first longfiction, Neues Leben (New Life). But with (On the Heights), a philosophic romanceof court life in the capital and the royal country seat of a consid-. BERTHOLD AUERBACH g6% erable German kingdom (by no means merely imaginary), inwovenwith a minute study of peasant life and character, Auerbachs popu-lar reputation was established. His plan of making ethics the chiefend of a novel was here exhibited at its best; he never again showedthe same force of conception which got his imperfect literary artforgiven. Another long novel, not less doctrinaire in scope, but dealing with quite different materials and problems, Das Landhaus amRhein (The Villa on the Rhine), was issued in 1868; and was fol-lowed by < Waldfried, a long, patriotic, and on the whole inert, studyof a German family from 1848 until the close of the In spite of his untiring industry, Auerbach produced little more ofconsequence, though he wrote a new series of Black Forest sketches:(Nach Dreissig Jahren (After Thirty Years: 1876); <Der Forstmeister(The Head Forester: 1879); and (1880). The close of his lifewa
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