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makes of it!—And then, to make the thing complete, he borrows twenty gulden of him! That, just that too, has taken the worst hold on me! What a degree of confidentiality that stands for! Or else——Oh, how much have I been mistaken in thee, or how much hast thou deceived me!

"I must go to him again, I must have some sort of a clearing-up of the affair—I cannot endure to remain long in this mood. Still—what use in clearing up what already is clear enough? Well, the clock strikes—I shall go to bed, and find forgetfulness for at least some hours."

June 17, seven o'clock, evening.

I have been with him. He is innocent! The letters which I read are not meant for any real correspondent, and our friendship remains as firm as ever! Another man, in my position, would have still doubted him; yes, Altmütter himself certainly would do so: but no! no suspicion of the truth of what he has told me enters my soul! He is my friend, and by God! there is no shadow of mistrust in me! I feel cheered—easier in mind; but still melancholy has not yet disappeared."^[1]

The "explanation" which Altmütter elaborated to his friend in this curious episode of uranian love and jealousy, is apparently open to much more suspicion that his wounded Pythias thought proper to—formulate. Grillparzer seems to have been too miserable in the situation to be exacting.

Grillparzer during, his London visit took a strong sentimental interest in a young Londoner of foreign parentage, who was the poet's daily guide in the city—a youth named Figdor.

In the dramas of Grillparzer occur some striking passages that touch on the homosexual sentiment, the force of destiny in it, its power, and so on: He has also finely,paraphrased the ancien platonic theory of the original 'unisexuality' of man; of divided existences that have supervened. In the famous passage in "The Golden Fleece"

1. Transl. X. M.

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