Zeitungsausschnitte über Werke von Herman Grimm: Unüberwindliche Mächte

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Persistent identifier:: 1489055839915

Title:: Zeitungsausschnitte über Werke von Herman Grimm: Unüberwindliche Mächte

Shelf mark:: 340 Grimm Nr. Z 36

Owning institution:: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg

Document type:: Essay

Collection:: Zeitungsausschnitte

Literature:: Moritz, Werner: Verzeichnis des Nachlaßbestandes Grimm im Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg. - Marburg : Hitzeroth, 1988. - S. 449

Link:: https://arcinsys.hessen.de/arcinsys/detailAction?detailid=g111787

Copyright:: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg / in Kooperation mit der Universitätsbibliothek Kassel

Annotation:: Enth.: Unüberwindliche Mächte (aus: Unserer Zeit, o. J.; Beibl. der Flensburger Norddt. Ztg. 1867; Kieler Wochenbl., 1867; The Nation, 1867; National-Ztg., 1867; Illustrierte Ztg., Leipzig 1867; Staats- u. Gelehrte Ztg. des Hamburgischen unparteiischen Correspondenten, 1867; Bll. für literarische Unterhaltung, 1867; Telegraf, Graz, 1867; Dresdner Journal, 1867; Beil. zu den Itzehoer Nachrichten, 1867; Old and New, Boston, 1870).

Language:: German; ENG

Digitisation date:: 2017

Place of electronic origin:: Kassel

Electronic publisher:: Universitätsbibliothek Kassel, Landesbibliothek und Murhardsche Bibliothek der Stadt Kassel

Physical location:: Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg

— r 7k Grimm’s “ Invincible Powers.” 249 certainly commands our best wishes and hopes. Is there so little good poetry in the land that “ Old and New” could find only Mrs. Stowe’s pleasing, thoughtful Hymn, for a first number ? Other new journals are—1. The “ Index,” published in the interests of “ Free Religion,” at Toledo, Ohio, un der the very able charge of Francis E. Abbot. The “ Index ” says “ it shall be the organ of no party in politics and no sect in religion. The editor will speak for himself alone, and so will each contributor; neither will commit the other.” We presume that the editor speaks for himself in saying that " to reject the Christian name does not necessarily mean to despise either Jesus or his religion.” 2. The “Monthly Review and Religious Magazine,” at Boston, to be edited by Edmund H. Sears and Rufus Ellis, of whom we may speak in the same language as of Mr. Abbot. This is an enlargement of the “ Month ly Magazine.” “It is to be a peri odical, theological, religious, and de nominational, whose object shall be still to gather and express the best and pro- foundest thought of the Unitarian body, applied to life and practice, and bearing on individual and social progress, upon the renewal of the Unitarian body within, as well as its growth, exten sion, and influence without. It is to be not only a religious magazine but a monthly theological review, popular and distinctively denominational, but not sectarian. It shall be liberal, and at the same time Christian; liberal to wards Trinitarians, and open to all the light and the genial influence to come from the church of Christ universal; liberal towards radicalism or unbelief, candid in receiving and profiting by its criticisms, by standing ever on the revealed Word of God, and owning the leadership of Christ alone.” 3. " Wake and Play,” a newspaper for the young, published at Springfield, Massachusetts. GRIMM’S “INVINCIBLE POWERS.” Hermann Grimm, the author of the interesting life of Michael Angelo, has lately published a novel of modern society in three volumes. 1 Its heroine and her mother and other characters are American, and a great part of the action of the novel takes place in America. It is therefore as interesting to the American as the German reader. A young count comes to America to find a solution of the enigma offered by the present state of society in Ger many ; and it is in the study of those questions that are now discussed in German society, that the interest of the book lies. It brings up the subject of the nobility, of caste, and class, a sub ject which it is difficult for an Ameri can to appreciate in all its intricacies; and it shows how this question is seeth ing in Germany, and what a sea of troubles we are freed from in America, from the non-existence of such a class as the nobility. “ What is to become of our counts, our nobles, in these days ? ” is the question which the char acters of Grimm’s novel set themselves to answer. The hero is, for a long time, one of the least interesting personages in the book — from his lack of firmness of character. He is a count of a long line of descent. His father has dissi pated all the riches he inherited, and the family estates have necessarily been sold. Arthur is forced then to live in seclusion, on the little that remains of his property, with an old cook, his horse, his family pictures, and' just enough to support life, — too much, one of his friends thinks ; for if he had been forced to labor, he would have 1 Uniiberwindliche Machte (Invincible Powers). Roman von Hermann Grimm.

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