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was in this interlunar cave, I failed to see your Icelandic translation, in Frazer, till yesterday. I sent for it three times; but, as so often happens, I did not get it till I went for it myself. But I have been paid for my trouble. I enjoyed it very much, and have become eager to see more, of which I find a notice in the Times, that came to me a few days ago. Meanwhile, I want the title of Bechstein's Deutsches Lesebuch, so that I can order it, and read Es stehen die Sterne am Himmel. Burger was a miserable scamp; but still I should be sorry to have the credit of Lenore taken away from him. I have always understood that he got the hint for it from hearing a peasant-girl, as she was washing in a clear moonlight night, sing about Die Todten reiten schnelle, Feins Liebchen, grant dir nicht. At least, this was the tradition at Gottingen,—not, perhaps, in the days of Matilda Pottingen, but just half a century ago, when I lived there; and I don't like to have it disturbed, except on v