Note 149 — CATHOLIC WORLD.

We give this passage not only because we think it apt, but also to vindicate the witty Hans from the inept aspersions of the Harper’s critic, who deliberately reaches the solemn opinion that “in Hans Breitman there is nothing funny but the grotesque dress. Translate his poetry into English, and it is, with here and there a solitary exception, the baldest of all commonplaces.”