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...know his true worth. With a view to the study of Goethe's life and works the Goethe society was organized. This society is engaged particularly in examining the manuscripts of Goethe, which, owing to the extinction of his family, have come into the possession of the German government. The light which these manuscripts have thrown on Goethe's writings and character is invaluable...
...reasons for this state of affairs, one was that Americans are unwilling to put their boys to hard work and strong lists, and the other was that the French teachers are more numerous, more enthusiastic and better educated than our own. Matthew Arnold also wrote on the superiority of German and French education at the time when he was making an extensive study of this subject. The question at present is how to improve the schools so that the young men may go out better equipped and the whole teaching force be better trained in the future. The means...
...half-past seven last evening, Upper Boylston Hall was well filled by an audience which had gathered to hear Mr. S. R. Keohler's lecture on German Engraving of the Sixteenth Century. This was the fourth in the course of lectures now being given under the auspices of the Deutscher Verein. Mr. Keohler, who is connected with the Boston Art Museum, was introduced by Professor Francke...
...important a place in the life of a nation as politics or literature. It may seem strange to select such a small and comparatively insignificant branch of art as engraving for the subject of a lecture, yet only a small portion of engraving-namely the way in which the German engravers made use of their lines in shading, will be spoken...
...increased in importance, until it was looked upon in Germany as the leading branch in art. This was in a great measure owing to the scarcity of orders for paintings, and hence, artists, in order to support themselves, were driven to take up the then popular engraving. Still the German engravers retained their love for paintings, and their pictures resemble painting in the mode of treatment, in contrast to the Italian engravings, which are merely reproductions of pen and ink drawings. This desire of the Germans to make their engravings look like paintings led to a very important advance...