Christ Before Pilate. By Michael von Munkacsy 192 Golgatha. By Michael von Munkacsy 212 Theodor Storm 220 Dunes on the North Sea. By Jacob Alberts 236 Churchyard on a North Sea Island. By Jacob Alberts 252 Communion Service on a North Sea Island. By Jacob Alberts 268 A North Sea Islander's Congregation. By Jacob Alberts 284 Living-Room in a Frisian Farmhouse. By Jacob Alberts 300 A Quiet Corner. By Jacob Alberts 316 A Gentleman of the Old School. By Jacob Alberts 332 Wilhelm Raabe 352 The Commander of the Fortress. By Karl Spitzweg 382 The Letter Carrier. By Karl Spitzweg 412 The Nightly Round. By Karl Spitzweg 442 The Stork's Visit. By Karl Spitzweg 472 The Lover of Cacti. By Karl Spitzweg 502 The Antiquarian. By Karl Spitzweg 532 EDITOR'S NOTE The illustrations in this volume, devoted to the writings of Spielhagen, Storm, and Raabe, are from paintings by Michael von Munkacsy, Jacob Alberts, and Karl Spitzweg. Munkacsy may be called an artistic counterpart to Spielhagen, inasmuch as he shared with him the conscious striving for effect, the predilection for striking social contrasts, and the desire to make propaganda for liberalism. Spitzweg was allied to Raabe in his truly Romantic inwardness, his joyful acceptance of all phases of life, his glorification of the humble and the lowly, and his inexhaustible humor. Alberts is probably the most talented living painter of that part of Germany which forms the background of Storm's finest novels: the Frisian coast of the North Sea. KUNO FRANCKE. THE LIFE OF FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN BY MARION D. LEARNED, PH.D. Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Pennsylvania.