An LUDWIG FULDA. Zwei Kontinente hält Ein Band umschlungen, Du sprachst zu uns in wohlvertrauten Zungen, Hast Du ins Reich der Sehnsucht uns geführt, Den Tag erhellt mit Deines Lachens Klarheit. Den Talisman, der nimmer trügt: Die Wahrheit. University of Pennsylvania, BEGRÜSSUNGSWORTE FÜR LUDWIG FULDA. Die Gegenwart, ihr Sehnen, Hoffen, Ringen- Wir standen längst mit dir im Geisterbunde-- Nun kommst du selbst und bringst uns treue Kunde; University of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1906. C. L. NICOLAY. CONTINUATION OF THE QUARTERLY AMERICANA GERMANICA A MONTHLY DEVOTED TO THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE Historical, Literary, Linguistic, Educational and Commercial Relations THE GERMAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY KEGAN, PAUL TRENCH, TRÜBNER & CO., LTD. F. A. BROCKHAUS H. LESOUDIER In his Preface to Cain: a Mystery, Lord Byron states: "Gessner's Death of Abel I have never read since I was eight years of age, at Aberdeen. The general impression on my recollection is delight; but of the contents I remember only that Cain's wife was called Mehala, and Abel's, Thirza. In the following pages I have called them 'Adah' and 'Zillah,' the earliest female names, which occur in Genesis. They are those of Lamech's wives: those of Cain and Abel are not called by their names. Whether, then, a coincidence of subject may have caused the same in expression, I know nothing, and care as little." Thomas Medwin records in his Conversations of Byron, 1824, the following: ""When I was a boy,' said he, 'I studied German, which I have now entirely forgotten. It was very little that I ever knew of it. Abel was one of the first books my German master read to me; and whilst he was crying his eyes out over its pages, I thought that any other than Cain had hardly committed a crime in ridding the world of so dull a fellow as Gessner made brother Abel. I always thought Cain a fine subject, and when I took it up, I determined to treat it strictly after the Mosaic account.'' It is probable that Lord Byron had remembered more of the Death of Abel than he supposed. Medwin has said of him: "His memory was remarkably retentive of his own writings. I believe he |