THE LIFE OF GUSTAV FREYTAG
By ERNEST F. HENDERSON, PH.D., L.H.D.
Author of A History of Germany in the Middle Ages; A Short History ofGermany, etc.
It is difficult to assign to Gustav Freytag his exact niche in the hall of fame, because of his many-sidedness. He wrote one novel of which the statement has been made by an eminent French critic that no book in the German language, with the exception of the Bible, has enjoyed in its day so wide a...
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