Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
No country perhaps affords a more interesting literary speculation at present than Germany. For researches in science and philosophy, for laborious investigations into the principles of public polity and law, she had long been conspicuous ; but, till very lately, she made scarce any pretension to fame in the other departments of literature, which usually precede those more abstract and laborious pursuits I have just mentioned.
page 158 note * Soon after the publication of that little work, it became a badge of fashion among the young men of Germany, to wear as a uniform the dress which Werter is described as having on in one of his interviews with Charlotte.