Excerpt from A Bibliography of German Literature in English Translation The quality of form is much less tangible, but for that very reason is not seldom caught unconsciously. It includes not only metre, of course, but all those imponderable elements of word-choice and arrangement that we conveniently call style. Style can be ponderous without being heavy, light without being insipid, fluent without being verbose, archaic without being crabbed. It is the translator's highest function to apprehend such qualities in his original and pass them on to the reader of his translation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.