Human All-Too-Human

<p>Nietzsche's essay Richard Wagner in Bayreuth appeared in 1876 and his next publication was his present work which was issued in 1878. A comparison of the books will show that the two years of meditation intervening had brought about a great change in Nietzsche's views his style of expressing them and the form in which they were cast. The Dionysian overflowing with life gives way to an Apollonian thinker with a touch of pessimism. The long essay form is abandoned and instead we have a series of aphorisms some tinged with melancholy others with satire several especially towards the end with Nietzschian wit at its best and a few at the beginning so very abstruse as to require careful study. J. M. KENNEDY.</p>