note is finely struck in _Liebesglück_ and _Seemann’s Abschied_; and the _Nachtzauber_ and ‘Serenade’ show a masterful power of poetic suggestion. The Goethe songs are generally regarded as, on the whole, a retrogression after the magnificent Mörike group. They are slightly less spontaneous, somewhat too loaded down with detail. But nothing could be finer as an expression of passion than _Hochbeglückt in deiner Liebe_ and _Komm Liebchen, komm_. In the grand manner are _Grenzen der Menschheit_ and _Prometheus_, the latter one of the most magnificent songs ever written. A certain inimitable dithyrambic humor sings in the Drinking Songs--_So lang man nüchtern ist_, _Was in der Schencke waren heute_, and _Trunken müssen wir alle sein_. Far removed from the Teutonic nobleness of Goethe are the Spanish and Italian songs, to words by Geibel and Heyse. Their average is very high and it is almost at random that we select the following for mention: _Nun bin ich dein_; _Geh, geliebter_; _Ich führ über Meer_; _Komm, o Tod von Nacht umgeben_, _Tief im Herzen_, _In dem Schatten meiner Locken_, _Auf deinem grünen Balkon_, _Der Mond hat eine schwere Klag erhoben_, _Was für ein Lied_, _Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen_, and _Sterb’ ich, so hüllt in Blumen meine Glieder_. Finally, we should mention the fine settings to three sonnets of Michael Angelo, the last things Wolf wrote before going to the madhouse, hopelessly insane. _Wohl denk’ ich oft_, _Fühlt meine Seele_, and _Alles endet was entstehet_ are deeply sincere expressions of the pessimism which comes at times over the greatest of souls. II