Editorials.

This article presents information on arts and political issues. Not long ago in an Italian auction-room, where contents of an historic palace were being sold, an English critic — and, incidentally, a successful dealer — was observed bidding on all the trash. The attitude of German writers towards what was once a comedy figure in their fiction and drama, "the American," seems to be changing. The American heiress in Ludwig Fulda's comedy, "Der Dummkopf," and the prodigal son in Gabriele Reuter's novel, "Der Amerikaner," are products of the American soil and the American spirit, likely to inspire the foreigner with respect for the ideal of manhood and womanhood.