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DEAR SIRS, - A friend has called my attention to a letter in your last issue, criticising my choice of Wieland's Oberon, to be read by German...
Thirdly, as to Faust. A vote was taken last year when we had done with it, and five-sixths of the class were of opinion it would be a good thing to read in German...
Last of all, the style of Oberon lies, if anything, nearer that of the solid works in German which professional students expect to consult, than the style of classical dramas does...
BEFORE going to Germany I had been told that it would be a great assistance to me in learning the language to enter a university, for thus I should not only have a chance of listening to good German for some hours a day, but should also make acquaintances among the students and so increase my opportunities for speaking. Having settled myself comfortably for the winter in a German University town, I bethought myself of this advice and, rash mortal that I was, resolved to carry...
...professor in German VI., after completing the very interesting tragedy, Emilia Galotti, by Lessing, expects to take up Wieland's Oberon. The selection seems a poor one and cannot interest the students. Wieland's works cannot be compared with those of Lessing, Goethe, and Schiller. Goethe's Faust was read in this course last year and proved to be uninteresting and too hard for the students; why take up Wieland's Oberon, a work even harder to understand? Why make the student read works containing forms no longer in use, when he is not familiar with modern forms of speech...