From: The Dial, Vol. I, No. II (Oct. 1840)
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Specimens of Foreign Standard Literature. Edited by George Ripley. Vols. VII., VIII., IX. Containing German Literature, translated from the German of Wolfgang Menzel. By C. C. Felton. In Three Volumes. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Company. 12mo. pp. 352, 428.
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Œuvres completes de Platon, traduites du Grec en Français, accompagnées d’Argumens philosophiques, de Notes historiques et philologiques. Par Victor Cousin. Tome XIII. Appendice.
This volume completes the great enterprise of M. Cousin, to which he has devoted the labors of nearly twenty years. Every student of modern literature can now find easy access to the thoughts of the Athenian master, as they are here clothed in the enticing and graceful style of one of the best French prose writers. This admirable translation is not the least service, which M. Cousin has rendered to the interests of philosophical learning. The reception, which it has found among us, is a good omen for those who believe that the highest truth is not the exclusive privilege of the scholar. May it help to diffuse more widely the pure love of beauty, the spirit of contemplation, and the clear perception of moral good, which alone can save our age!
Ueber Shakspeare’s dramatische Kunst und sein Verhältniss zu Calderon und Goethe. Von Dr. Hermann Ulrici. Halle.
In this work the author gives a succinct history of the English Drama up to the time of Shakspeare, thus putting the reader in possession of the poet’s point of sight; a picture of the age in which he lived, when the pomp of the middle ages acted strongly on the mind set free by the Protestant Reformation. Then follows an account of the poet’s life, and the greater part of the book is devoted to “a development of Shakspeare’s poetic vision of the world.” This book is spoken of in the Halle Allgemeine Literatur Zeitung in terms of high commendation. The author has the “Philosophic depth,” which we vainly look for in Schlegel’s criticism of the great poet.
Geschichte des Urchristenthums durch A. Fr. Gfrörer, Professor Bibliothekar in Stuttgart. I. Das Jahrhundert des Heils. 2 vols. 8vo. II. Die Heilige Sage. 2 vols. 8vo. III. Das Heiligthum und die Wahrheit. Stuttgart. 1838-1840.
Professor Gfrörer is the author of another work, “Philo und die Alexandrinische Theosophie,” which he regards as the vestibule of his present edifice. In the early volumes, as we understand, he attempts to derive Christianity from the Essenes, but in the latter, obeying the public cry against Strauss, he attempts to find its origin in Jesus. It appears to be a work of great pretensions and little merit, if we may judge from two able articles upon it, one in the Berlin Jahrbücher, and the other in the Halle Allg. Literatur Zeitung.
Rabbinische Quellen und Parallelen zu neutestamentlichen Stellen mit Benutzung der Schriften von Lightfoot, Wetstein Meuschen, Schöttgen, Danz etc. Zusammengestellt von F. Nork. Leipzig. 8vo.
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Historische Entwickelung der speculativen Philosophie von Kant bis Hegel. Zu naherer Verständisgung des wissenschaftlichen Publicums mit der neuesten Schule dargestellt, von Heinrich Chalybäus. 2d edition. 8vo. Dresden. Moritz.
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