Professor Morgan, with unbounded industry, has compiled a list of
6,544 German works by named authors—apart from anonymous books and collections—which were translated into English before 1917. In many cases he indicates by signs the merit or demerit of the translation. The entries under the names of Goethe, Schiller, Lessing and other great authors are specially interesting, though, as the compiler warns us, the selection does not by any means include all the most im- portant German books, notably on history and philosophy. When the study of German revives, the catalogue will be useful to students. The cost of printing it was partly defrayed by a fund instituted to maintain a German professor at Wisconsin University. " There was no possibility," the Editor observes, " of the fund being used then or in the immediate future for the appointment ' of such a professor from Germany, so that the money has been applied in producing the book.
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