24 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

Sappho : Trauerspiei. Von Franz Grillparzer. Edited by Walter Eippmann,

M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Grillparzer is a poet little known in this country, and this new edition of his great tragedy will be acceptable to all students of German litera- ture. Professor Rippmann has discharged his task with great care and skill. His notes are exhaustive, while in the introduction be gives us an interesting sketch of Grillparzees curious per- sonality. We hope that this edition may contribute towards familiarising English readers with a work which some critics have considered fully equal to the classical tragedies of Goethe.