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 musician, Büllman, who succeeds in carrying off Tomei, in a professional tournée. Suddenly stirred to pain beyond endurance, Buchner seeks out Tomei, and throws himself upon the pity of the latter, in a scene of strong emotionality. Buchner conquers. Not only is the rivalry of the musician overcome, but Tomei's Italian bisexualism, his old-time love for Buchner, resumes its authority, Tomei is willing to sacrifice his marriage to his friend. Unfortunately Tomei dies, through a revolver-shot. The re-uniting of the two uranians is not long for this world.

A group of other immediately contemporary romances of similisexualism includes "Anders als Andern", a book that in psychologic study, serious purpose and literary quality in general is among the best on the topic; in its basis suggesting the remarkable Diary of August von Platen, and conducted with, firmness of delineation, and. taste; Schumann-Arndt's "Wir Vom Dritten Geschlecht" (a novel that includes a study of uranian degeneracy); Elise Kupffer's "Sein Räthsel der Liebe", with the contest of the bisexual type in a lover; "Der Junge Kurt", where the dormant homosexualism in the lover of a woman is vivified by her young son, so that the one emotion in the uranian Ego gives place to the other. We have also "Die Wahre Liebe" by Norbert Langer: tales and verses by Joseph Kitir, the Viennese poet and journalist; novelettes and collections of verses by Hans Heinz Evers, Adolf Brand and others.

Certain novels by the well-known romancist Sacher-Masoch deal with homosexualism, though this writer's stories of psychiatric sort concern themselves more with "fetichism" etc., in sexual instincts.

Apart from certain plays that indirectly, at most episodically—"atmospherically"—are touched with homosexualism, such as the beautiful