The New York herald., 1921-07-10

commended to those OF our painters
and designers who are already squint-
ing in the direction of expressionism.
atlantis lives again!" With this
slogan Eugen Diedrichs of Jena ushers
in an important and enthralling series
dealing with all the fables, myths,
legends and ruins of legendary Africa,
the culture of the Kabyles, of Kordo-
fan and the Sudan-in ten ample vol
umes-to be brought to a close in 1925.
They will be edited and compiled by
Leo Frobenius, the famous scholar and
traveller. Bong & Co. of Berlin have
just published "Die Befreiun9 der
Menschheit" (The Liberation of HUI
manity), a momentous, timely book.
1t may be called an encyclopedia of
the revolutionary ideal in the past
and present, of the Promethean fate
of men. 1t is book of large formal,
with many contributions by intellect
ual leaders of the Left, and it is illus
trated with the utmost extravaganza
"a panorama in word and picture of
the history of human aspiration, hope,
folly of the slow advance toward the
broader day and then the inevitable
laundering back of the rock which
the slave Sisyphus has rolled with such
agony toward the heights.
Alexander Won Gleichen- -Russwurm.
lineal descendant of Schiller, has just
brought his six volumes dealing with
the culture and customs of Europe to
splendid climax by the publication of
'The Sun of the Renaissance" Julius
Hoffman,, Stuttgart)-a book in which
| hn ,,I,t int hA foIy af
most thrilling movement of this era
of art and aristocracy.
A large and excellent compendium Of
German literature of the last decades,
"Dichtuno und Dichter der Zeit," by
Albert Soergel, with some $50 por-
traits, &C., has been published by r.
Voigtlanders Verlag, Leipsic, and has
already run into the fifty thousand.
Adolf Bartels's "Die tungsten OH.
Haessel, Leipsic) deals with the pre-
mer literary figures among the
younger men down to the close of 1920.
German Literature of the Nineteenth
and Twentieth Centuries" by Richard
NJ Meyer, has been edited by Hugo
Bieber and issued by Georg Bondi,
Berlin. The~fourth Year Book of
Intellectual Politics." edited by Kurt
Hitler, has made its appearance. 1t is
packed with the dynamic ideas and de-
mands of prominent young intellect
uals. Friedrich Gundolf has written
n mastery study of Stefan George
| (Verlag Georg Bondi. Berlin). Few
poets have created so many new
forms and word values as George,
nor impressed themselves more deeply
on contemporary poetry. Kasimir
Edschmid, one Of the most staccato
and stenographic of expressionists,
has been summing up the new men
and movements in his book of essays
THE Double Headed Nymph," from
the press of Paul Cassirer.
Books upon Einstein and his theory
continue 10 appear in apparent viola
ton of the relativity of probable in
terest. One of the best and most abb
sorbing interpretations is that by
Alexander Moskovsl<y, one of the most
brilliant and versatile minds of Ger
many-"Talis with Einstein"-a
English translation of which Is to be
published by Methuen. The well known
scholar and philosopher of style, Fritz
Mauthner, has just issued at the age
OF 40 the first volume OF his History
of Atheism in the Occident" (Deutsche
Verlagsanstalt StuttgarD - for
midable book which opens strange
doors in the history Of man and draws
curtains from windows In walls where
one had never imagined them to exist
The sentimental German habit OF
celebrating the birthdays OF well
known men by public congratulations
addresses, poems and articles in the
newspapers, has not been abolished by
the war. The age limit has even beer