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 THE ilKENINC OF SPRING A Tragedy of Childhood BY FRANK WEDEKIND Translated from the German by Francis J. Zlegler CLOTH, GILT TOP, DECKLE EDQE $1.25 net. - - Postage, 10 cents A BOOK for PARENTS and EDUCATORS For the same reason that admirers of Maeterlinck no longer hail him as the new Shakespeare, German enthusiasts will cease to apply the title to Frank Wedekind. They will come to realize that comparisons with the highest are no less odious than others, and that their author has qualities sufficiently distinctive and re- markable to stand by themselves. . . . All who are interested in having the physiology of sex taught in schools will find beneath its pessimism a fund of truth forcefully presented. Viewed as litera- ture, it is, as the translator observes, full of gruesome situations; but if the author's fancy occasionally runs riot in a gothic night- mare of horrors, he has gleams of grim humor, and the play, once read, can never be forgotten. -^fifara Franciico Chronicle, "The Awakening of Spring" has much of a grim simplicity, beside which Ibsen's "Ghosts" seems tame. In a series of dis- connected scenes, and with harrowing climaxes purely mental in their action, Wedekind handles the psychology of adolescence and what comes of parents' failure to take cognizance of it. He preaches what is nowadays preached by advanced students of social hygiene, the sinfulness of allowing children to grow up in igno- rance of the most vital fact of life,. . . Overfond of the ghastly, Wedekind is yet an original who must be heard. — Boston Daily Advertiser. BROWN BROTHERS, Publishers N. E. Cor. Fifth and Pine Streets, Philadelphia