ping. Therefore to get as union as a German pays for a period- 

 ical the publisher must charge the American enough to leave 

 that amount after the GG,".; is taken. I "bought some missing 

 numbers of Fedde's Sepertorium. The price had gone up atro- 

 ciously, hut they had Mez's grass papers in them and we had to 

 have them. To my surprise Dr. Fedde charged me at the old rate 

 of $>2 a volume. "Pilr 3ie hier , " he explained. If I paid him 

 from America he would have to charge me )8 in order to get 

 The whole of Europe is so desperately befuddled. The diplo- 

 mats make provisions without a ghost of ah idea of how they are 

 going to work out. Dr. Henrard of Leiden said that the ''diplo- 

 mats around the "peace"' table did not know as much geography 

 as a child in the grammar school'.' And they know about as much 

 of economics as a dry-goods clerk. Poor France is destroying 

 herself in her determination to destroy Germany. When I think 

 about it I am in despair — it seems as hopeless as our own 

 negro problem. I am so glad to turn to grasses from Homo im- 

 btcillus, misnamed H» sapiens. Like you. the older 1 get the 

 more there is to, do. I am still working on the rich harvest 

 I gathered in Europe. It is clearing up many puzzles. 



With best wishes, 



Yours sincerely, 



