Note 14 — Chapter II · THE RALLY OF GERMANY—LESSING.

The text-book for German seventeenth-century criticism is that of Dr Karl Borinski, Die Poetik der Renaissance und die AnfängeAnfänge der literarischen Kritik in Deutschland (Berlin, 1886). This book is “choke-full” of information and indication, and the only possible faults that Momus himself could find with it are—first, that the author sometimes digresses somewhat from his path, which is itself so little trodden that one would like him to stick to it; and, secondly, that his dealings with his subject might be rather clearer and more methodic in the text, and, being what they are, are all the more in want of a clear and methodic table of contents. But I am too much indebted to him to quarrel.