Also in Germany has been published at least one periodical of belles-lettres kind, distinctively for homosexual readers; the little "Der Eigene" of Adolf Brand. Its career was troubled, and it is no longer issued.
As previously pointed out in another connection, the activity of scientific German writers in the way of studies—social, legal, psychologic, psychiatric—of similisexual instincts is very large each year. At present it is attaining by itself the proportions of a vast Bibliography; much in excess of that in any other language, and by far the most exhaustive, intelligent and progressive. In many cases the writers are well-known as uranians. In quite as numerous and authoritative instances not such, and impersonal in their relation to the. topic. Both in the graver literature or in lighter presentations, the subject of the similisexual is now freely before German readers and thinkers, with an insistance and a variety of perceptions such as nowhere else.
Lenau: Madness
and the Literary
Uranian.
The brilliant German-Hungarian lyric poet, and poetical dramatist, Nicholas., Lenau (Niembsch von Strehlenau) belonging to the classic galaxy of the first half of the nineteenth century, has become to biographers a clearer and more, complex homosexual personality, as the dolorous story of his life has been unfolded from its mysteries. Few men of genius have had so stormy and tragic a history. Much of it has come to light only reluctantly, in fragments. The poet's lyric drama "Faust", his "Savonarola", and "The Albigenses" (in the first-named fantastic poem occurs an uranian accent) will preserve his literary fame; while the dark drama of his own life might well be a subject for a Baudelaire or a Poe, not to speak of Lenau himself. It has been well said of Lenau that in his career we find mounting ever higher, step by step with his intense idealism, and in spite of his poetical enthusiasms and successes, a painful
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