BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

ANDOVER HARVARD
THEOLOGICAL LIBRAR
CAMBRIDGE, MASS

H59.569

March 15, 1939

COPYRIGHT 1907 BY KUNO FRANCKE

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published April 1907

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MY BROTHER HUGO

WHOSE LOVE HAS PROTECTED ME FROM EARLY YOUTH

AND TO

FRIEDRICH PAULSEN

WHOSE FRIENDSHIP HAS GUIDED AND INSPIRED THIRTY YEARS OF MY LIFE THIS LITTLE BOOK IS

AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED

HEIMATGEFÜHL

Die Heide blüht. Ein endlos Flimmern,
Ein Summen, Brüten weit und breit;
Am fernen Horizonte schimmern
Die Dünen, still und traumbeschneit.
Die Heide blüht. Wie Purpurquellen,
Aus braunem Sande strömt's hervor;
Und tausendfache Farbenwellen
Erzittern überm dunklen Moor.

Die Heide blüht. Aus dunklen Tiefen
Ziehn Sehnsuchtstimmen durchs Gemüt,
Als ob sie meine Seele riefen

Zur Ewigkeit. Die Heide blüht.

PREFACE

THE essays and sketches brought together in this book deal with what may be called the higher life of modern Germany. For even in so far as they are concerned with earlier epochs of literary or artistic development, they consider these earlier phases only in their relation to the life of the present. Taken as a whole, they form perhaps a slight contribution to the psychology of the German national mind.

The temper of these papers is frankly propagandist. They wish to arouse sympathy with German views of public life, education, literature, and art; and they try to set forth some German achievements in various fields of higher activity. The author hopes, however, that love for his native land has not blinded him to shortcomings and defects inherent in the German character.