NOVELIST'S LOVE LETTERS

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 30

NOVELIST'S LOVE LETTERS

Real love letters make perhaps the most interesting of all reading, whatever we may feel about the fights and wrongs of publishing them. In his novels we get a glimpse of how Wassermann faced the world: in "The Letters of Jacob Wassermann to Frau Julie Wassermann," published 'by George Allen and Unwin, Ltd., we have an intimate glimpse of his relations with the woman he loved. These letters are classified in three divisions: those written before his engagement, those written afterwards, and those written after marriage. They give us an intimate picture of one of the greatest of modern German novelists in his private life, and incidentally they throw a good deal of light on the character of the woman to whom he is writing. Simply and unaffectedly written," concerned mainly with the day-by-day details of life, these letters are amazingly human, and often pathetic.

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