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A TRAGEDY OF CHILDHOOD BY

FRANK WEDEKIND

A drama dealing with the sex question in its relationship to the education of children

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Here is a play which on its production caused a sensation in Germany, and can without exaggeration be described as remarkable. These studies of adolescence are as impressive as they are unique.—The Athenaeum, London.

The dialogue is extraordinarily fresh and actual, and the short, varying glimpses that place the characters and the situation before you are vivid as life itself. The book is not one to be read lightly nor lightly to be set aside. It has a message that may well be learned here as elsewhere, and it witnesses to a high purpose in its author and to a brave spirit.—New York Times Saturday Review.

In "The Awakening of 'Spring" we have German realism at its boldest. Nearly all the characters of the play are children, and its action revolves about that groping for knowledge, particularly upon certain forbidden subjects, which comes with end of childhood.

It must be said of Wedekind that he is nowhere gross. His object in writing the play was to arouse German parents just as Edward Bok is trying to arouse the mothers of America, and he has succeeded. He is one of the most accomplished of the younger Germans. His work shows profound thought.—The Sun, Baltimore.

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