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...BOYD in this volume has assembled and collected all the scattered references made by Goethe to English literature. As is well known, Goethe's knowledge of Shakespere was immense, and his appreciation remained, as Dr. Boyd says, "undiminished to the end." In his last conversation with Eckerman on Sunday, the eleventh of March, 1332, he declared Shakspere to be the greatest name in the world's literature...
Consistently an Anglophile--though he referred to the English as being "without intelligence"--Goethe read avidly English anuthors with whom many English critics have been unfamiliar, and Dr. Boyd quotes his opinions of them, especially of the minor seventeenth centuary poets. In view of Goethe's scientific interests, on the other hand, it is perhaps not strange that he read and admired Thomas Sprat's "History of the Royal Society...
...world. And Goethe admired Scott, but "it cannot be said that he ever expressed any great admiration for Carlyle as an original writer," though he thought him an excellent translator. The correspondence between Goethe and Carlyle is, to be sure, great: but one is inclined to agree with Dr. Boyd that Goethe's attitude toward Carlyle is that of most great men towards their more eager, not to say blatant, disciples...
...Boyd, who is a reader in German at Oxford, has produced a book, which may to the layman seem some what pedautic, but which is of value to English criticism and to the Scholarship on Goethe...
Absent from New York, Bishop Francis John McConnell had not given explicit permission to use his name, but he voiced no complaint. Later Rev. Dr. Cleland Boyd McAfee (Presbyterian missions) wrote the Groups that he had been listed "by mistake." Nevertheless, the array of sponsors showed that what was once "Buchmanism" and is now The Groups has at last found wide favor in high places...