1. Georg Brandes 1842-1927(1942) -- 2. goethe's Iphigenia and the Humane Ideal (1949) -- 3. Goethe's "Magic Flute" (1943) -- 4. Is the "Prelude on the Theatre" a Prelude to Faust? (1949) -- 5. Goethe's Vision of a New World -- 6. Goethe about Goethe in French (1946) -- 7. Schiller: Poet of Politics (1960) -- 8. Schiller's "Treacherous Signs" (1959) -- 9. Glory and Decline of the Bourgeois: Schiller and Dumas Fils (1954) -- 10. Eichendorffs Symbolic Landscape (1957) -- 11. Picaresque Elements in Thomas Mann's Work (1951) -- 12. Thomas Mann's Joseph the Provider and Laurence Sterne's tristram Shandy (1947) -- 13. Hermann Hesse: The Exorcism of the Demon (1953) -- 14. The Shroud of Silence (1953) -- 15. The Oresteia Today: A Myth Dehumanized (1959)