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EDWIN ZEYDEL H. University of Cincinnati Briefe an August Hermann Francke. Mit Einleitung und ErlazcGEISSENDOERFER. Urterungen. Herausgegeben von THEODOR bana : University of Illinois Press, 1939. Pp. 223. $3.00. This book represents a real labor of love on the editorâs part, for it is clear that only a keen personal interest could have induced him to take the really extraordinary pains that are evident on every page. Not only did he go to very considerable trouble to complete the letters of Franckeâs mother, but he has packed into his learned footnotes (over 700 of them) an immense amount of information regarding the persons and happenings referred to in the letters. Even those notes which record a failure to get the data sought are Reviews eloquent of the efforts, however frustrated, that preceded the final disappointment. A brief but informative introduction explains the inception of the project and the general method followed, and comments on some of the letter-writers and the intrinsic interest of their messages. There follow then the 177 letters of the collection, grouped by writers-the largest number from one person is 70, comprising all the known letters from Anna Franckin to her son-and interpreted not only
Modern Language Quarterly: A Journal of Literary History – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 1940
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