What to read after Faust?

HE influence of Goethe upon the [cultured minds of this century is second only to that of Shakespeare. Whether it will be equally lasting may be doubtful for ages solve many problems as they proceed, and throw aside geni uses which for a time reigned supreme. Goethe's life, if not wholly admirable, is full, deep, soaring, passionate, human. Intensely alive. He aspired to the skies, he roamed through space, he studied and lived under most varied conditions, he imagined with extraordinary force and vividness what was vague or unknown to his contemporaries; he sympathised with the pains attending human progress, the temptations lying thick in man's path, the joys which crown existence he expressed with a force all his own the poet's sense of beauty in creation and in human character; he mirrored the re ligious doubt of his age in face of the evils and sorrows of life, and stated with magnificent directness and insight problems which humanity has not yet solved, perhaps is not destined to solve.

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