IN THE FOOTPRINTS OF HE'INE.
In the Footprints of Heine. By Henry James Forman. (Con- stable and Co. 6s. net.)—The journey which Mr. Forman made was from Gottingen into the Hartz country. At Gottingen itself he saw the house where Heine lodged; Lerbach, Goslar, and the Valley of Ochre were stages in his route ; he traversed the country of the Wild Huntsman; he made his way up the Brocken, and though he did not actually see the Brocken spectre, got to know something about it. Early in his expedition he meets with a dignified German gentleman with his wife and sprightly daughter. These—we cannot but hope that they are real persons, for the sake of Germany—play a very agreeable part in the little drama. He sees other tourists, students, cum muttis aliis, and describes them in a very kindly way ; he gives us sketches of the country. Altogether, ho has written a very delightful book, with just as much about Heine as we want, and something, too, about Goethe. There is little to be said about it, except that it takes a high place in its class,—the class which counts among its great ones Sterne and Stevenson.
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