“ In his Urgeschichte der germanischen und romanischen Völker (Berlin, 1881–1890) , Dahn went a step farther back still, but here as in his Geschichte der deutschen Urzeit (Gotha, 1883–1888) , a wealth of picturesque detail has been worked over and resolved into history with such imaginative insight and critical skill as to make real and present the indistinct beginnings of German society. Together with these larger works Dahn wrote many monographs and studies upon primitive German society. ”