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It is a pleasure to open the first number of the REVIEW with a contribution from the pen of the dean of research students in German cultural history in this country-Professor Kuno Francke. The REVIEW joins thousands of friends of German scholarship in America in extending to him sincere congratulations on his seventieth birthday, September 27, 1925.

Professor H. C. G. von Jagemann retired from active service as professor of Germanic philology at Harvard at the end of the academic year 1924-25. He was made emeritus at his own request. Professor von Jagemann came to this country in 1881. He received the doctor's degree at Johns Hopkins University in 1884, was professor at Earlham College 1884-86, at Indiana University 1886-89, and went to Harvard in 1889. As an expression of respect and affection, colleagues and former students raised a fund, the income of which is to be used for additions to the Harvard library of books on Germanic and Romance philology, the works to be selected by Professor von Jagemann as long as he cares to do so. The REVIEW joins colleagues at Harvard and elsewhere in the earnest wish for an early recovery of Professor von Jagemann's health.

After many unforeseen delays the Bibliography of Periodicals on the German Language & Literature has at last gone to press. It is published under the auspices of the Germanic Section of the Modern Language Association of America by Karl W. Hiersemann of Leipsic. Subscribers should receive their copies early in the new year. The undertaking, which had to overcome many initial difficulties, was organized by a committee of American Germanists under the chairmanship of Professor F. W. J. Heuser of Columbia University, working in cooperation with an honorary advisory council of Austrian, German and Swiss Germanists and librarians. Under the general guidance of this committee the work of compilation was carried on for two years by Dr. Carl Diesch, Director of the Library of the Technische Hochschule in Charlottenburg.

The Committee for the Sixteenth Century of the Germanic Section of the Modern Language Association of America has issued an appeal for the organization of a combined list of sixteenth century books and tracts printed in German now in the libraries of the United States. This movement was set on foot at the meeting of the Section held at Columbia University on December 31, 1924. Instructions are formulated in the appeal for listing the works on cards, and since the committee is without funds it is hoped that this will be undertaken voluntarily at various universities. The cards should then be sent to the Secretary, Professor Charles A. Williams, University of Illinois, at Urbana.

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BY EDWIN H. ZEYDEL

HE following brief autograph letter of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, hitherto apparently unpublished, so far as I have been able to determine, has recently come into my possession. It occupies the first page of a large double sheet of letter-paper, each page measuring about 19 X 23 cm. The inside pages are blank and reveal a Dutch water-mark. The last page contains Klopstock's seal, well preserved, and the address of the letter, in Klopstock's hand:

As the letter seems to have been written in haste and can hardly be considered a clean copy made from a preliminary draft, it is an excellent specimen of the natural, characteristic hand of its author. The upper right-hand corner is missing, the paper being torn or perhaps gnawed away, so that it presents a jagged, irregular edge about a third of the way down. The only total loss of text occasioned thereby is that of the date. The missing words of the letter itself can, I think, be restored, with a fair degree of certainty, by conjecture. In the following transcript, matter in brackets indicates missing text.

Hamburg [. . . . . .]

Ich hätte Ihnen schon lange schreiben sollen, mein [lieber Brückner,] daß ich nicht dazu rathen kann, daß [sich Ihr]