Volume 10, Number 3 · February 15, 1968
Isn't It Romantic?
By Robert M. Adams
Romantics at School
by Morris Marples
Barnes & Noble, 206 pp., $5.00
The Mind of the European Romantics
by H.G. Schenk
Frederick Ungar, 327 pp., $9.00
The differences between English and German scholarship provide some of the oldest wheezes in the academic trade; they ought not to be true, not any more, but, alas, they sometimes are, and the conjunction of the two books under review not only illustrates but exaggerates them. The English book is extravagantly amateur and casual, the Germanic (Dr. Schenk is Czech by birth) forbiddingly categorical; it is a matter of creampuffs and kartoffelklösse.
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