All of the papers, except the last one, have been published previously, four of them in the Atlantic Monthly, seven in the Nation, one in the International Monthly, one in the International Quarterly, one in the Outlook, and one in the Boston Transcript. The verses accom-. panying the dedication were first printed in the Berlin Weekly, Die Woche. To all these periodicals the author is indebted for the privilege of republishing his contributions. The head of Klinger's Beethoven, which forms the frontispiece of the book, is taken from a photograph of the statue published by E. A. Seemann in Leipzig. It seems to express with particular emphasis and power the concentrated striving of contemporary Germany for the vision of eternal things. A few remarks about this greatest creation of modern German sculpture will be found on pages 43 and 210. HARVARD UNIVERSITY, March, 1907. K. F. CONTENTS V. THE STUDY OF NATIONAL CULTURE VI. SKETCHES OF CONTEMPORARY GERMAN 1. Hauptmann's Fuhrmann Henschel 2. Sudermann's Die drei Reiherfedern |