The literary digest . ssed through Weimar and goose-stept to the amusement and amazement of the be-holders on that picturesque, cobble-stoned old market-place knownto many a reader of Vanity Fair, where Weimar masqueradesunder the name of Pumpernickel. There, beneath the shadowof the house of Johann Sebastian Bach . . that market-place across which Thackeray sent Dobbin speeding from hisrooms in the Elefant to call on Eviily, when that lady residedas a widow in lodgings hard by—there did those Prussiansdo their now well-known prance before marching oh into theirown territory. The New York Time
The literary digest . ssed through Weimar and goose-stept to the amusement and amazement of the be-holders on that picturesque, cobble-stoned old market-place knownto many a reader of Vanity Fair, where Weimar masqueradesunder the name of Pumpernickel. There, beneath the shadowof the house of Johann Sebastian Bach . . that market-place across which Thackeray sent Dobbin speeding from hisrooms in the Elefant to call on Eviily, when that lady residedas a widow in lodgings hard by—there did those Prussiansdo their now well-known prance before marching oh into theirown territory. The New York Times also joins in the reminiscent mood,thus ruminating: Tranquil old sprawling town of memories and monuments,of pictures and libraries and pleasure gardens! As one readsof the multiplicity of colored cards required there to-day forlodging and feeding and what not, one remembers with regretmany a Hof and Keller of that quiet inheritor of old traditions,that earlier Germany, seeing which the pilgrim forgot the deadly. THE TIDE IN THE WAR-POETSINSPIRATION THE RISE AND FALL OF THE WAVES of poeticimpulse induced by the war is noted by Mr. E. ])orn, the anthologist, who has confined himself tothe poets who have personally engaged in the struggle. Manyof these, if not most of them, he has shown us were moved to
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