musician, Büllman, who succeeds in carrying off Tomei, in a professional tournée. Suddenly stirred to pain beyond endurance, Buchner seeks out Tomei, and throws himself upon the pity of the latter, in a scene of strong emotionality. Buchner conquers. Not only is the rivalry of the musician overcome, but Tomei's Italian bisexualism, his old-time love for Buchner, resumes its authority, Tomei is willing to sacrifice his marriage to his friend. Unfortunately Tomei dies, through a revolver-shot. The re-uniting of the two uranians is not long for this world.
A group of other immediately contemporary romances of similisexualism includes "Anders als Andern", a book that in psychologic study, serious purpose and literary quality in general is among the best on the topic; in its basis suggesting the remarkable Diary of August von Platen, and conducted with, firmness of delineation, and. taste; Schumann-Arndt's "Wir Vom Dritten Geschlecht" (a novel that includes a study of uranian degeneracy); Elise Kupffer's "Sein Räthsel der Liebe", with the contest of the bisexual type in a lover; "Der Junge Kurt", where the dormant homosexualism in the lover of a woman is vivified by her young son, so that the one emotion in the uranian Ego gives place to the other. We have also "Die Wahre Liebe" by Norbert Langer: tales and verses by Joseph Kitir, the Viennese poet and journalist; novelettes and collections of verses by Hans Heinz Evers, Adolf Brand and others.
Certain novels by the well-known romancist Sacher-Masoch deal with homosexualism, though this writer's stories of psychiatric sort concern themselves more with "fetichism" etc., in sexual instincts.
The German Ur-
anian Drama.
Apart from certain plays that indirectly, at most episodically—"atmospherically"—are touched with homosexualism, such as the beautiful
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