a fancy nor a threat, but you are dragged to the rack, and you are
tortured, and there is no marvelous rescue at the last moment," and in
this book there is also a corollary, "It is on the healthy in you you
must live, it is the healthy that becomes great." The realization of
the former has given, perhaps, a subdued tone to his canvasses; the
recognition of the other has kept out of them weakness or self-pity.

Under the encouragement of George Brandes his novel Marie Grubbe was
begun in 1873, and published in 1876. His other novel Niels Lyhne
appeared in 1880. Excluding his early scientific works, these two
books together with a collection of short stories, Mogens and Other
Tales, published in 1882, and a posthumous volume of poems, constitute
Jacobsen's literary testament. The present volume contains Mogens, the
story with which he made his literary debut, and other characteristic
stories.

The physical measure of Jacobsen's accomplishment was not great, but
it was an important milestone in northern literature. It is hardly an
exaggeration to say that in so far as Scandinavia is concerned he
created a new method of literary approach and a new artistic prose.
There is scarcely a writer in these countries, since 1880, with any
pretension toward literary expression who has not directly or
indirectly come under Jacobsen's influence.

O. F. THEIS.



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