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with his activities since the spectre of war invaded the shady
retreats of his pleasure-loving Vienna. We do not even know
whether he has survived the four years of strife and the suc¬
ceeding months of starvation. If he is now alive, it would be
difficult to prophesy the turn which his work will take as a
result of his experiences in the war. But, whatever he may
do in the future, we may be fairly certain that the author of
Liebelei and Der Einsame Weg is not merely the favorite of a
generation, destined to be forgotten like the shadowy loves
of his Anatol.