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HIS edition has grown out of the needs of the editor’s class room. Die Jungfrau is, on the whole, in his opinion, the best book with which to begin the study of the German classics.

The language is in general simple and clear, and offers few difficulties to students in their third or even their second term. But the drama has not hitherto been provided with a body of notes adequate to enable the student to enter fully into the spirit of the period and of the characters.

The Introduction contains an account of the genesis of the drama, its production on the stage, the MSS. and early editions, the metrical structure, and the historical sources, together with Schiller’s additions and alterations. The notes are mainly grammatical and historical. At the end is an appendix on the Regimen of Verbs and the Subjunctive Mood as they appear in the drama. Also a map.