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His influence had put an end to the simple ingenuousness with which the Leipzig public had hitherto judged the productions of its sociable subscription concerts. Through the influence of my good old friend Pohlenz, who was not yet altogether laid on the shelf, I managed to produce my Columbus Overture at a benefit concert given by the favourite young singer, Livia Gerhart.
The rain-laden trees of the avenue evoked in him, as always, memories of the girls and women in the plays of Gerhart Hauptmann; and the memory of their pale sorrows and the fragrance falling from the wet branches mingled in a mood of quiet joy.
Gerhart Hauptmann and Robert Hichens; Voltaire and Henry Van Dyke; Flaubert and John Fox, Jr.; Balzac and John Kendrick Bangs; Ostrovsky and E. Phillips Oppenheim; Elinor Glyn and Théophile Gautier; Joseph Conrad and Robert W. Chambers; Zola and Zangwill!...
The opinion of Europe awaits it, as do I. Bear this in mind; in a moment like this, even silence is an act. *A Reply to Rolland* *By Gerhart Hauptmann.* I share in this general sorrow, but that to which I cannot consent is to give an answer whose spirit you have already prescribed and concerning which you wrongly assert that it is awaited by all Europe. I know that you are of German blood.
From now on, may our deeds be our words! *Are We Barbarians?* *By Gerhart Hauptmann.* The idea of cosmopolitanism has never taken deeper root anywhere than in Germany. Let any person reflect about our literary translations and then name a nation that has tried so honestly as we to do justice to the spirit and the feelings of other races, to understand their inmost soul in all good-will.
"Our fearless German warriors," writes the leading German dramatist, Gerhart Hauptmann, "are well aware of the reasons for which they have taken the field. No illiterates will be found among them. Many of them, besides shouldering their muskets, carry their Goethe's Faust, some work of Schopenhauer, a Bible, or a Homer in their knapsacks."
But there were so many of them listed for sale, the owners gone, their equities long since eaten up by unpaid taxes, that it took the judge a good while to find the particulars in this special case. "Man by the name of Gerhart, mile and a half west of town that would bring him pretty near the river offers his quarter for three hundred dollars.
There were published a short time ago the complete works of Gerhart Hauptmann poems, social plays, novels, and tales in six stately volumes. In glancing at the figures of his sales I could not help thinking of Zola. What the translation figures are I have no idea. The next in number to The Sunken Bell is The Weavers, forty-three editions.
More recently the composer has won success with a work on the subject of Till Eulenspiegel. Heinrich Zöllner came to the front in 1899 with 'Die versunkene Glocke, an opera founded upon Gerhart Hauptmann's famous play, which is said to reproduce the symbolic charm of the original with conspicuous success.
There is method in the madness, but it is a method of intangible ideas. 12mo. $1.50 net CONTENTS: Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Henry Becque Gerhart Hauptmann Paul Hervieu The Quintessence of Shaw Maxim Gorky's Nachtasyl Hermann Sudennann Princess Mathilde's Play Duse and D'Annunzio Villiers de l'lsle Adam Maurice Maeterlinck.
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