qui tiennent, which hold good

Page 80* — I. Wallenstein, generally considered Schiller's greatest drama, appeared in 1799. It deals with the political hitrigues which culminated in the assassination of General Wallenstein, February 25, 1633, during the Thirty Years* War. — Die

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Rauber: another tragedy by Schiller, written in 1781, during his " Storm and Stress " period. — Ich habe genossen das irdische Gliick, / àave enjoyed earthly happiness. This line, together with the following one : Ich habe gelebt und geliebet {I have lived and loved), forms the close of the famous little song by Thekla, the heroine of Schiller's Wallensieinf (Piccolomini, Act III, Scene 7.) The last line of the song is quoted by the first violinist in Trilby, by Du Maurier. Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), the friend and rival of Goethe, is perhaps the most beloved of German poets and dramatists.

2. du Schumann à quatre maiiïs, piano duets by Schumann. This celebrated German composer lived from 1 810 to 1856.

3. m'a fait reyenir de la soupe de myoeotiSi disgusted me with sentimentality; lit. "forget-me-not soup."

Page 81. — I. da moi, of self, of the ego.

2. les lotus. There are several species of these water lilies. Some have been employed in religious ceremonies in Egypt and Asia, and some are figured on ancient monuments. One species — that of the lotus-eaters — was fabled by the ancients to cause strangers who ate of it to forget their native land, or to lose their desire to return to it.

3. Gauge, the Ganges, a river in India, considered sacred by the Hindoos.

4. "Force et matière," "Force and Matter; or principles of the natural order of the universe, with a system of morality based thereon ; a popular Exposition," by Friedrich Carl C. L. Buchner.

Page 82* — i. Tu es touché, you are hit; a fencing term.