by the self-deposed king and hbis court
(who all conspired for a day to keep up
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the deception) the beggar was entirely
Ro
convinced. He concluded that his whole
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actual existence as a beggar had been
Musen
merely a dream. And then, upon falling
asleep again, being again clad as a beg¬
The table trembled; budls of luster slept
T HAS
gar, and in the morning waking to dis¬
On shifting crystal, and our voices made
win
cover himself once more in rags, he
A hollom shelter and uncertain shade
than
Lound himself in a quandary. Which
that his st
Where ting beasts of thought serenely crept.
was the reality and which was the
carry mor
Dur laughter was a barricade that kept
dream? And at the present moment was
the jungles
he awake or asleep?
Marauders from our gold, and then nou iaid
furthermor
Pirandello has treated, in his“Henry
Nour wit againsi me like a spear and said:
relation be
IV, a similar theme, and done it with
Ackeon in business. I almost wept.
tude of his
extraordinary beauty; and now Arthur
·Hills of
Schnitzler has tried his hand at it in
throughout
the novelette form of which, in Fraülein
The torn uhite bodg in the vermeil grot
ing.
Else,“ he has already shown himself to
Made Harlequm with lozenges of blood.
Pheasar
be so admirably a master. His“Rhap¬
I had forgotten it. I had forgol
few of the
sody'' is in some respects the most ex¬
The moving beam, ihe milku, wandering flood
and though
quisite thing he has done. If it lacks
lon, Sikhi
And the cold stars and beauty standing bare
the tragie force and sharply defined psy¬
Tunnen, P
chological determinism of Fraülein
When nour swift thoughts like hounds lecped on me #here.
them have
Else''—which had a certain dramatie
all have be
Herbert Gorman.
advantage in its unity, in the singleness
for the mal
of the narrative thread—it more than
is illustrat
compensates for this in its greater poetie
most inter
Treedom and fullness. If one reads it
Beebe’s na
and the way in which the event is a sort
pregnabie against all Central and East¬
simply as a story, one finds in it all the
Beebe is
of modified or exaggerated version of
elusive beauty and imaginative logic of
ern Europe. There is no doubt that
We rarely
the preceding event—these devices are
a fairy tale. It has, too, a great deal
Casar in Gaul, Charlemagne, Louis XIV,
sonal deta
used with great poetic skill to bring the
of the fairy tale's hallucinatory vivid¬
the two Napoleons, all appreciated the
win, Walla
ness: it combines, as the fairy tale does,
tone of the realism as close as possible
importance of the ancient river.
traveling 1
to the tone of a dream. It is almost with
and as poetry does, the palpable and the
The interesting story which Herr
Scarcely a
impalpable, the tangible and the intan¬
a sense of shock that one finally ac¬
Stegemann tells is, through over¬
the first p
gible.
companies Fridolin home again in
simplification, unfortunately made less
thinks, hor
the morning, and sees him wake his
The surface of the stream, that is, is
convincing than it might have been. It
esting and
astonishingly real, crowded with images
wife from a nightmare. And then, when
is Herr Stegemann’s thesis that if a
vironment
of light and sound and texture, every¬
Albertina, hesitating, tells him her dream
nation at one and the same time pos¬
pening to
where apprehensible by the senses, every¬
—a really magnificent dream in which
sesses the Seine and the Rhone and con¬
depressing
where burningly and deliciously immedi¬
she too has triumphantly played the part
trols the Rhine, it is ipso facto able to
threat of
ate; but the stream itself, the theme,
of a betrayer—the effect of delicious am¬
dominate Europe.“ Certainly Germany
serpents, z
the meaning, the essence, is perpetually
biguity is enhanced threefold. Is it pos¬
without the Rhine could never de so.
compel th
escaping one’s grasp, slipping into an¬
sible to say that Albertina’s dream is any
Likewise
other dimension, or evaporating under
less real than Fridolin’s adventure? Is
hold? Philip of Spain held the mouth
in or proje
one's hand, exactly as "being'' itself es¬
her betrayal of him, as a wish-fulfillment
of the river and dominated Europe.
other Orier
capes from analysis or as consciousness
in sleep, any less a betrayal ihan his
But Holland controls it today and does
contact, co
dissolves when scrutinized by itself.
actual, though abortive, attempts to be¬
not dominate. England after Trafalgar
sympathy
tray her?
dominated through her navy, without
usually er
„WHIE STORY is simple. Fridolin, a
It is unnecessary, and it would de¬
thoughts a
holding the Rhine. Today, when the
#ector, and his wife Albertina, hap¬
fraud the reader, to give here in detail
One que
flow of credit is more important than
pily married, have been to a masquerade.
the narrative itself, or the dream of
arises:
the flow of a dozen Rhines, Europe must
Each has had a flirtation with a masked
Albertina. They are both superb. The
own stuff
bow to the will of a country 3,000 miles
stranger; neither flirtation has been seri¬
whole novelette is, in fact, a poem of ex¬
removed from the Rhine.
phrases, t
ous; but, as they discuss these episodes
quisite richness and loveliness: it has al¬
reminiscen
The weakness of Herr Stegemann’s
afterwards, somehow a reciprocal smold¬
most the saturated and heavy sensuous
Pheasants,
thesis may be best illustrated by por¬
ering jealousy is aroused. They begin
beauty of a modern Eve of Saint Agnes
paragraph
tions of his own argument. It is his
zillaging each other’s minds for tenta¬
in prose. And it is not only a poem. It
have been
tive infidelities—and Albertina confesses
view that Great Britain was not the vic¬
is also a profound analysis of two per¬
to make br
that some time before, when they had
tor in the World War, since she did not
sonalities, and of an intricate and subtle
Pheasa
been on a holiday in Denmark, she had
eliminate German maritime and indus¬
psychological situation. It is life itself,
the most a
so intensely fallen in love with a young
trial competition, but that Lthe real vic¬
told in the iridescent language of a
observatior
man whom she had seen only twice in
dream.
tor was France, who had fought solely
of natural
a hotel that she would have been willing
for mastery over the Ahine.“ It is at
adventure,
to go off with him. Fridolin is shocked
once apparent that if England had in¬
pings of h
The Rhine as a Cause
by this, and deeply wounded, and in turn
deed achieved her end, she and not
too commo
makes a similar admission. They look
France (even if France were to hold all
be sure, i
Of Major Wars
at each other with eyes suddenly es¬
the Rhine) would dominate Europe.
scems to
tranged. A gulf of suspicion and almost
TIE STRUGGLE FOR THE RHINE.
Herr Stegemann nevertheless tells
after the
of hatred seems to open between them,
By Hermann Stegemann. Knopf.
an interesting story of the politico-mili¬
tothe sea
and at this instant Fridolin’s medical
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tary ramifications of the Rhine problem.
book, howe
duties call him away for the night. He
He has in most part been judicious in
FNTHE literary and political ideology
description
goes out, conscious of a desire for re¬
his treatment of the French side of the
ters as the
of Germany the Rhine has long
venge, a desire to be unfaithful.
story, an unexpectedly realistic quality
and The
played a part only less important
The greater part of the novel then
carrying
in onc who seems to be arguing not only
than that of the Nile in Egyptian
consists of the series of odd adventures
a break.
for the freedom of the Rhine but also
thought. As the Rhine steamer draws
which befalls Fridolin during this night,
cannot rea
for the return to Germany of Alsace
near the Lorelei German passengers
all of which he spends away from home.
ment of mi
and Lorraine. With some of his state¬
group themselves at the gunwale, beer¬
With each of four women, in succession,
toward th
ments there will be little agreement. It
steins in hand, to sing their doleful and
it is possible for him to betray his wife;
originated
is, for example, fairly certain that Rus¬
devotional hymn. The old river is a
it is possible, and he desires it; but in
each case soms inhibition—is it merely, symbol of power, the incarnate soul of sia, while assured of French support, the two vo