The German Academy of Letters, founded on the French model last year, has elected five new members uring the present session. These fare the novelists Alfred Dablin and Leonhard Frank, the lyric poets Theodore Daubler and Alfred Mom. bert, and the playwright Fritz von Unruh.
The choice is interesting beyond the borders of Germany as it re-fleets the national sentiment of today in regard to literature. Of the five, von Unruh's name is probably dost known abroad, but all, it would appear, have been chosen because of their essentially German characteristics, Von Unruh's plays, however, might have been written by any. disillusioned ex-officer of any other country, He is remarkable in 30 far that even in 1914 he was questioning his conscience as to the con-let between Inner convictions and, the commands of a superior affeer. He is the aristocratic revolutionary. fu his works as well as in his style, which ranges from expressionism Its most staccato stage to passages of the greatest lyric beauty. His "Sacrifice," written before Verdut in 1916, is the same in spirit-as his (914), and his post-war trilogy of military performed with more or less success at most of Germany's litertary theatres.
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