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 them. Let us only consider him as he appears to the impatient class of readers those who refuse to read 'Hohenstiel Schwangau' and 'Sordello,' but are capable of delighting in the shorter pieces.

Has he humour? The 'Pied Piper' of our cartoon is an answer. Everybody knows it. The Piper—

rids the town of the rats that infest it. As he pipes, they come out of the houses and follow him down the street.

He leads them to the river, when all are drowned except one, who describes the effect of the piping:

Is he pathetic? Read 'Count Gismond,' where his wife recalls that day when he saved her name at the peril of his life, and slew the foul