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GOETHE'S
HERMANN AND DOROTHEA.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN
BY ELLEN FROTHINGHAM.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.
Thin 8vo, cloth, gilt, bevelled boards. Price $2.00.
A cheaper edition, i6mo, cloth. Price $I.oo.
"Miss Frothingham's translation is something to be glad of: it lends itself
kindly to perusal, and it presents Goethe's charming poem in the metre of the
original.... It is not a poem which could be profitably used in an argument for
the enlargement of the sphere of woman: it teaches her subjection, indeed, from
the lips of a beautiful girl, which are always so fatally convincing; but it has its
charm, nevertheless, and will serve at least for an agreeable picture of an age when
the ideal woman was a creature around which grew the beauty and comfort and
security of home." - Atlantic AIonthly.
"The poem itself is bewitching. Of the same metre as Longfellow's ' Evangeline,' its sweet and measured cadences carry the reader onward with a real pleasure as he becomes more and more absorbed in this descriptive wooing song. It is
a sweet volume to read aloud in a select circle of intelligent friends." - Providence
Press.
" Miss Frothingham has done a good service, and done it well, in translating
this famous idyl, which has been justly called 'one of the most faultless poems of
modern tinmes.' Nothing can surpass the simplicity, tenderness, and grace of tht
original, and these have been well preserved in Miss Frothingham's version. Her
success is worthy of the highest praise, and the mere English reader can scarcely
fail to read the poem with the same delight with which it has always been read by
those familiar with the German. Its charming pictures of domestic life, the
strength and delicacy of its characterization, the purity of tone and ardent love of
country which breathe through it, must always make it one of the most admired
of Goethe's works."- Boston Christian Register.
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