The only native author in Germany who has attained anything like this popularity is Waldemar Bonsel. And here is a young man who in the future may be read largely in England. He is a faneiful and delicate artist whose German is beautiful and sonorous. He 18 entirely admirable in his simplicity and clarity, and totally different from the average conception of anything that is German.
The novelist in Germany is nowhere beside the allegorist and the author of what might be called "emotional philosophy." Whether the reason is a searching for soul comfort in the hour of debacle, or a sign that the old German metaphysical trend is again drawing the nation, I do not know. But many of the books are delightful reading and are of the _loftiest idealism. Nowhere did I find any
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