The book and letter were returned as unclaimed after three months. But on September 29, 1899, the Horseherd wrote again, giving his real name, Fritz Menzel, and the address Monangahela Hotel, Pittsburgh. This letter I have been unable to find. On October 17, 1899, I wrote by my husband’s desire. “DEAR SIR: My husband, who is seriously ill, wishes me to send you this letter from him, written last February and returned late in April, and to say, as he has now received your letter of September 29, with your real name and address, he is sending you the copy of his book, _Das Pferdebürla_, which was also returned to him.” After a few months both letter and book came back unclaimed, and from that time nothing more has been heard from the Horseherd. The book bears the inscription:— “To the Pferdebürla, with greetings from his Pardner.” A few words must be said about the translation. In August, 1898, a translation of the first article on Celsus, made by Mr. O. A. Fechter of North Yakima, Washington, U.S.A., was sent to my husband by an old friend, Mrs. Bartlett, wife of the Rev. H. M. Bartlett, rector of the church in the same place. He liked it and returned it at once, begging that the other articles, which had appeared in the _Deutsche Rundschau_, though not yet published as a book, might be translated. For more than two years nothing was heard from North Yakima, though I wrote more than once during my husband’s illness, so anxious was he to see the translation carried out. At length, just before Christmas, 1901, I wrote once more and registered the letter, which was safely delivered, and I then heard that my friend had not only written repeatedly, but that the whole finished translation had been sent, nearly two years before, and that she was astonished at hearing nothing further. Some fault in the post-office had caused the long silence on both sides. A rough copy of the translation had been kept, and was sent over after it had been clearly written out. I cannot sufficiently express my gratitude to the Rev. J. Estlin Carpenter, who has revised the whole work in the most thorough manner, devoting to it much of his very valuable time. GEORGINA MAX MÜLLER FOOTNOTES 1 The Greek term “logos” was rendered _Geschichte_ in the German title. 2 The word _Pferdebürla_ is apparently a Silesian equivalent for _Pferdebursche_, and is represented in this volume by the term “horseherd,” after the analogy of cowherd, swineherd, or shepherd. The termination _bürla_ is probably a local corruption of the diminutive _bürschel_ or _bürschlein_. 3 “What difference does it make,” he would ask, “whether it was written by the son of Zebedee, or some other John, if only it reveals to us the Son of God?” (letter from the Vicar of St. Giles’s, Oxford, _Life and Letters_, II, Chap. xxxvi.). 4 See the letters between Max Müller and Dr. G. J. Romanes, _Life and Letters_, II, Chap. xxxi.