Excerpt from Ibsen in Germany, 1870-1900 A third important source of material is practically only within reach of those having access to the libraries in Ger many. I mean the files of daily newspapers. Philipp Stein's little volume, however, quotes freely from the Berlin dailies, and from these, as well as from other references to similar sources, I conclude that the ultimate impression ofthe investigation would scarcely be changed, except, perhaps, that the negative side of the controversy were more em phatically represented. The articles in the newspapers were usually struck off at white heat, reflecting the reaction of the moment; those in the journals profit by more or less deliberation. If the opposition seems to be unduly stressed by the quota tions in the succeeding pages, this is not to be attributed to any predilection of the investigator for that point of view. The positive influence of Ibsen is to be sought pri marily in the creative literature of the time, and its testi mony is abundant and eloquent enough. While the older generation and its supporters battled the new with words, the latter, as is always the case, was engrossed in practice rather than in verbal eloquence. In this practice Ibsen and the German appreciation of him are vindicated if that is at all necessary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.