after sufferings, portrayed with analytical skill, harmony is restored. The city of Munich, in its varied aspects as related to society and the arts, forms the “chorus” and subtle influence in this dramatic story.[76] Heyse has written more than sixty dramas yet too few of them are translated adequately into English; too often they have failed in stage presentation. Many are historical; _The Sabine Women_ is erotic and less consistent in development than _Hans Lange_, _Hadrian Colberg_, and _Mary of Magdala_; the last play has been translated by William Winter and by Lionel Vale. The old philologist, Zipfel, in _Colberg_, may have been modeled, in part, from Heyse’s father. His speech, relating the story of Leonidas and the Persian War, reaches a climax of courage and self-sacrifice, with an application to later days of struggle between the French and Germans. In Henning, the old servant in _Hans Lange_, the author emphasizes his belief in the redemptive power of nobler nature, in spite of incentives to revenge against the young squire. There is unevenness of workmanship among the many _Novellen_. _Felice_, the tale of the peasant girl who “listened to reason rather than the call of passion,” is a vital expression of the author’s creed of obedience to “impulse of the heart.” The later tales are more keen and realistic than the photographic, romantic scenes laid in Italy and Southern Germany. Heyse became more of an analyst of all kinds of humanity, with their conflicting “impulses,” but he never acquiesced in the scenes of squalor and moral slime that delighted some of his contemporaries of the “naturalistic school.” By contrast, he was an idealist with a strong vein of poetry. One of his best stories of later period, _The Last Centaur_, expresses his revolt against the materialistic spirit of his age. The creature who represents the age of myths and imagination is driven back into the wood by the evil ways and heartless gibes of the modern villages; in turn, he scorns their opposition with “an exhalted humor.” It seems almost a modern version of the old tale of _Baucis and Philemon_. In another tale, _The Incurable_, the hero keeps faith in the ideal, in spite of the “rabble in kid gloves.” _Die Blinden_ (_The Blind_) is an appealing story, with colorful pictures of garden and ravens and flocks, and two children, Clement and Marlene, waiting with tense emotion for the doctors to restore their sight. The stern father, obsessed with his idea of “duty,” is a strong character. “Nils mit der offenen Hand” is a fairy tale that defies adequate translation into English but has situations of dramatic skill, notably that of the gulls biting the rope at the execution of Nils, and the brave deed of Stina, the princess who loves Nils.