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in advance to drink its honey, while he said proudly:

"'Now for our turn—hers and mine.'"

An epigrammatic tag sadly boshed, I think.

I find that "leave them nothing but their eyes to weep with" occurs in this book; so we must absolve poor old Bismark at any rate from inventing this bloodthirsty phrase.

''And I find the Ukraine mentioned! The Ukraine! The dear old Ukraine! A sweet land of which I—and you? be honest! had never heard before the days of the W. T. I. D.''

I have sent for a complete set of Heine from Heinemann; it just occurred to me that I have read little of this great man's. And I am told that the translation is good

Do E. and J., he asks, 26. 7. 20'', ever perpetrate those plays upon words of which Heine was so fond? They are not exactly puns; I am not sure that quodlibets isn't the word for them. E. G.: Herr von Schnabelowpski smites the heart of a Dutch hotel-proprietress. Over the real china cups she gazes at him porcela (i) nguidly.''

''That is not a very good example. This one is better: Heine calls on Rothschild at Frankfurt. Rothschild receives him quite famillion-*airly.''

''Good-bye. It threatens rain; and I propose''