I weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten,
Dass ich so traurig bin;

Ein Mährchen aus alten Zeiten,
Das kommt mir nicht aus dem Sinn.
Die Luft ist kühl und es dunkelt,
Und ruhig fliesst der Rhein;
Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt
Im Abendsonnenschein.

N. & Q.' are in sympathy. A curious bit of folk-line take only-for we have not space to quote lore, new to us, is quoted, p. 185, from Thiers's muchTraité de Superstitions,' as belonging to Spain: "When a woman is about to be delivered......they take her girdle, go to the church, tie up the bell with this girdle, and ring it three times, in order that the woman in question may be happily delivered." The Archdeacon of Pampeluna is then quoted as saying that "this superstition is largely observed throughout the whole of his country." An attractive portion of the volume consists of poetical allusions to bells. These, of course, are numerous, and Mr. Tyack has made a happy selection. We wish, however, he had included the famous lines beginning

We often find these wonderful lines, in virtue of
their own glory, rising up in haunted memory.
No. 7 in the Heimkehr' will occur to many memo-
Du schönes Fischermädchen, &c. ;

ries:

Hark! the merry Christchurch bells, and we will give him an extract from Hood's 'Ode and who forgets No. 30, to Rae Wilson, Esquire,' which we commend for his second edition:

:

How sweet the sounds of village bells
When on the undulating air they swing!
Now loud as welcomes, faint now as farewells-
lines that in their observation recall Tennyson's
Low on the sand and loud on the stone
The last wheel echoes away.

Some few plates adorn a handsome volume which
will be prized by the antiquary and can be perused
with delight and advantage by the general reader.

Heinrich Heine's Lieder und Gedichte. Selected
and arranged, with Notes and a Literary Intro-
duction, by C. A. Buchheim, Ph.D. (Macmillan
& Co.)

HEINE himself was fully conscious of his position in
German poetical literature-

Ich bin ein deutscher Dichter,
Bekannt im deutschen Land;
Nennt man die besten Namen,

So wird auch der meine genannt;
but he probably did not foresee the recognition that
awaited him in England and in the chief countries
of Europe. Dr. Buchheim, who has often been
helpful to English students of German, has just
issued an expurgated edition of the 'Lieder und
Gedichte.' Heine is a poet; he possessed undoubted
poetical gifts of a high order, though these were at
times tainted and disfigured with the results of
a temperamental depravity so pronounced that his
poetical endowment is lost in erotic slime. "He
gains by the process of elimination," says Dr. Buch-
heim, who expresses regret that "certain of his
poems were ever written." To omit such poems is
a gain for modesty and decency, though the omission
neglects much which, if highly objectionable,
is yet very characteristic of the poet; and there
are doubtless many persons who will prefer their
Heine bowdlerized. The Doctor leaves out Heine's
dramas, and "also his purely satirical poems with
their special reference to the Zeitverhältnisse." The
reader has only to do with Heine's better part-with
those songs and
which include his nobler and
poems
purer poetic work. And in his "better part" Heine
is a true, a great, a magical poet. He never strains
after startling metre or seeks fantastic words or
novel forms of art. He has the gift of expressing
the deepest meaning or the tenderest sentiment in
the simplest words, and this fine quality he shares
with greater Goethe-nay, he may have learnt it
from Goethe himself. For a specimen of his magical

Mein Kind, wir waren Kinder,

or the 'Wallfahrt nach Kevlaar'? Heine was

not a "Ritter von dem Heil'gen Geist," but he is Germany's chief champion as a poet who has humour, wit, satire, and his good work may well be loved in England. Dr. Buchheim will help to make it loved as it deserves to be. The Doctor's notes will be found useful, and his undertaking should become popular. He gives us a Heine free from the poet's demoniacal possession.

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