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POE'S “HANS PFAALL” AND THE POLITICAL SCENE
H. ALLEN GREER
Although critics of Edgar Allan Poe have been playing detective for over forty years,(1) it was only several years ago that Richard P. Benton disclosed a side of Poe not previously noted.(2) As G. R. Thompson has recently commented, Benton showed that “The Assignation,” “rather than being a mere ‘borrowing’ and ‘twisting’ of Byron's love affair with the Countess Guiccioli, is a satire on the Byronic pose, while itself posing as a Byronic tale of dark passion.”(3) In other words, Benton showed that in this tale Poe was addressing a double audience — the general public, whom he was out to hoax, and a small audience of sophisticates, whom he thought would take delight in perceiving what he had accomplished. And Benton noted also that “in his parody Poe achieves the Byronic tone and atmosphere while at the same time he selects, annuls, and inverts according to his artistic inclination. ...”(4) Following Benton's lead, Thompson has revealed in his very perceptive article that Poe adopted the same attitude toward his readers and employed the same bag of tricks in “A Tale of the Ragged Mountains.”
In “Hans Pfaall” Poe seems to have addressed not only the credulous, who he calculated would take his “moon journey” seriously, but also the astute, who he thought would see he was clearly presenting a parody and a burlesque of so-called “scientific” moon journeys in general. At the same time, he apparently added a new wrinkle to this tale, for he seems to have addressed the very astute who would also perceive that he was satirizing the political scene since on the deepest level it is “a kind of allegorical parody” of the life and times of Andrew Jackson, then President of the United States. As a parody it mimics, satirizes, and makes a burlesque of Jackson and the Jacksonians through a fabric of fiction that at times is transparently thin. But as Benton observed, the Poe hoax does not pretend to be a carbon copy or photograph of the person or persons quizzed. As a parody it achieves the spirit and atmosphere of the Jacksonian era through Poe's imaginative genius as he “selects, annuls, and inverts” the facts to suit his artistic purposes. As science-fiction Poe's tale was a great success. The credulous thought his story true while the astute laughed. But if the very astute saw that his tale was further a quiz on Jackson and the Jacksonian democrats, no one so far has made this disclosure in writing. [page 68:]
The first clue to “Hans Pfaall's” identity as a political hoax lies in its foreign setting. Rotterdam has been carefully selected by Poe as the site of his anti-Jacksonian hoax for several reasons. Rotterdam displays some resemblance to Washington, D. C., and its foreign location shares with Poe's other foreign set tings the distance that he desired in satirizing the American scene; but, above all, Rotterdam was chosen for what its name suggested. The foreign setting of “Hans Pfaall” finds a literary analogy with three other political satires. In his “Poe's Political Satire”(5) Professor William Whipple convincingly alleges that “King Pest, A Tale Containing an Allegory,” “Four Beats in One — The Homo-Cameleopard,” and “The Devil In The Belfry” are political satires of presidents of the United States. The first two satirize Jackson while the third satirizes Martin Van Buren. Interestingly enough, the next tale Poe wrote following “Hans Pfaall” turned out to be “King Pest.” And one tale later the other Jacksonian satire, “Four Beasts In One” was published.
“King Pest” takes place in London, the capitol of England. ‘Four Beasts In One” is set in old Antioch, the former capitol city of the Seleucid kings. “The Devil In The Belfry,” however, is staged in the fictional Dutch town of Vonder votteimittiss, a pun on the phrase, “wonder what time it is.’” “Hans Pfaall,” apparently written prior to these three satires, combines the patterns of foreign settings for political satire and the use of punning on the word “fall.” Although Rotterdam has never been the capitol city of Holland, it does resemble Washington, D. C., in that it is a large city — the second largest in the Netherlands — and lies astride the New Mass River as Washington does the Potomac.
But Poe selected Rotterdam particularly for what its name suggested. A city full of “Rotters,” ruled by the chief “Rotter,” Andrew Jackson, expresses Poe's contemptuous vision of Washington, D. C., under Jacksonian democracy. An aristo crat by education and tradition, Poe feared a government ruled by the mob. And Andrew Jackson's administration represented mob rule to him. In 1835 all the anticipated evils of Jacksonian democracy had come true in the eyes of the aristoeratic republicans. Washington, D. C., towered, indeed, as a city of “Rotters,” of Jacksonian democrats. For in that city in 1834 Jackson had destroyed the Bank of the United States. A furious battle between the bank's paper money and Jack son's hard money ensued. The result of this war found the United States in a deep economic slump in 1835, the year “Hans Pfaall” was written, that eventually led to the Panic of 1837.
Poe began his hoax of his readers by deliberately misleading everyone. He accomplished this by declaring “Hans Pfaall” a hoax! And in so doing Poe set up a smoke screen so effective that all further inquiry into the tale followed the path that Poe intended. In a footnote to his tale Poe laid the framework of the false trail by creating a hue and cry over a question of plagiarism: “There is, strictly speaking, but little similarity between this sketchy trifle and the very celebrated and very beautiful ‘Moon Story’ of Mr. Locke — but as both have the character of hoaxes (although one is in the tone of banter, the other of down right earnest) and as both hoaxes are on the same subject, the moon. ...”(6)
In 1835 a trip to the moon had to be a pure hoax. Some readers saw the humor of such a project and laughed, especially when they saw the pun on the word fall. A perceptive modern critic, Edmund Reiss, has made a detailed disclosure of the surface hoax about a trip to the moon. But unknown to him his interpretation acts as a key that unlocks the door of the second level of hoaxing that this paper deals with. His method of reasoning, therefore, is worthy of extensive note: “The main part of Poe's tale ‘Hans Pfaall’ is a serious, perhaps even partly plausible account of a trip to the moon. ... The framework which surrounds this chronicle however, is of an entirely different tome. ... Its spirit is unmistakably light and facetious. ... The odd name of Poe's hero, although certainly having a Dutch sound, may have been selected on still more important grounds. The Latin word follis, which is of a sound similar to Hans' surname, means bellows; and Hans Pfaall's occupation before he left for the moon was that of a bellows mender. In late popular Latin follis was used in the sense of ‘windbag,’ or empty-headed person; and it is this meaning which appears ... in English as fool. Follis is not so different in sound from Pfaall, and as Poe used several different spellings of the same name, it may very well be that he was interested only in its sound and not in any particular spelling. ... The word fool may also be used to mean a jester, and it is this usage which most aptly describes the mysterious moon-man who brought Hans' letter of Rotterdam. This idea is more easily seen when one remembers that a jester was sometimes [page 69:] of odd physical appearance and that his outfit usually consisted of motley coat of bright colors and tight breeches, with bells hung from various parts of his attire. ... Poe's moon-man was only ‘two feet high and was dressed in sky blue satin with tight breeches to match. ... His vest was of some bright yellow material; a white taffety cap was set jauntily on one side of his head; and, to complete his equipment, a blood-red silk handkerchief enveloped his throat, and fell down in a dainty manner, upon his bosom, in a fantastic bow-knot of super-eminent dimensions.’”(7)
Reiss goes on to point out that, in keeping with the jester image, the balloon, made up of dirty newspapers, forms a huge foolscap. He notes the pun on foolscap as denoting not only parchment but a fool's cap. Before ending his article on the comic setting, he focuses attention on the date of Hans' departure for the moon, the first of April. Believing he has penetrated to the core of the moon hoax, Reiss laughs good naturedly at another Poe April Fool's joke. Reiss succeeded where other critics had failed. He saw a second level of hoaxing that revealed the fool, the jester, the clown, and even the windbag through the Latin etymology of the word “follis,” and he went beyond the obvious misleading pun on the word “fall” to the key sound of “Pfaall” that led to “follis.” But Reiss did not look far enough. He stopped looking when he arrived at the comic fool framework. He erred in not looking at the man and in not asking who it was that Poe labeled a fool and a windbag. He erred in not following Poe's clues to the identity of the man behind the mask. He failed to see the parody of Andrew Jackson and his political cronies lurking in disguise in the second level of hoax. Reiss should not be condemned. That fiendish old hoaxer, Poe, had thrown up another roadblock for those readers who might be astute enough to see more. Although Reiss sees the comic in the very elaborate descriptions of the arrival of the emissary from the moon, and he sees the comic in the minutest description of the emissary himself, Poe perplexed and confused him by diverting his attention, almost immediately, to Hans Pfaall himself. But even there Poe inserts a twist. Instead of seeing Hans, the reader has only a letter to examine.
In this sudden diversion from one character to another the reader encounters the puzzle of Poe's paradox. Why did Poe spend so much time in introducing the moon-man? First, he builds up suspense as he describes the scene of arrival. Second, he describes the moon-man in minute detail. Third, with a swish he plunges the reader into a long letter from Hans. By the end of it most readers have for gotten the moon-man. Why, if he plays no significant role, did Poe waste so much Time on him? The fact that the question is asked provides another clue in solving the mystery. Two major figures dominate the reader's attention in this tale. Knowing the technique of the Master of Design who once said, “In the whole composition there should be no word written of which the tendency, direct or indirect, is not to the one pre-established design,” the reader ought to suspect a relationship between the major figures. The tale occupies thirty-five pages in the Quinn and O’Neill edition of Poe's works. Tucked away on the thirty-third page, almost totally buried in other moon lore, Poe hides the answer. In a description of the moon men, the letter from Hans states: “I have much to say ... of the incomprehensible connection between each particular individual in the moon with some particular individual on the earth — a connection analogous with, and depending upon, that of the orbs of the planet and the satellites, and by means of which the lives and destinies of the inhabitants of the one are interwoven with the lives and destinies of the inhabitants of the other. ...”(8)
Every man on earth, then, has a counterpart on the moon. But Hans has already described the moon men as only two feet in height. They, moreover, do not have ears. The moon men doubles, then, are not carbon copies of earth men they represent. But could they be parodies of earth men? Could they be, in Benton's terms “selected, annulled, and inverted” caricatures of earth men? In short, if the moon man were studied might his corresponding earth man be seen in comic form? And who should Hans, an earth man living on the moon, send to earth to represent him but his own moon double. Herein is the reason for Poe's elaborate and detailed description of the emissary early in the tale. Look at the moon-man framed in comic setting Reiss discovered. Look at the moon-man. See the earth man emerge. Look at the moon-man's face. Look at the balloon. Listen to the letter. Read between its 1ines. See in that letter the description of the character of Hans. Look, listen, read, and see. And Andrew Jackson will appear. For at the very core of this science fiction hoax lies the theme of the doppelgänger, the double motif, so often used by Poe. Poe describes the occupant of the balloon: ‘This was in truth a very droll [page 70:] little somebody. He could not have been more than two feet in height. ... The body of the little man was more than proportionately broad, giving to his entire figure a rotundity highly absurd. His feet, of course, could not be seen at all, although a horny substance of suspicious nature was occasionally protruded through a rent in the bottom of a car. ... His hands were enormously large. His hair was extremely gray, and collected in a cue behind. His nose was prodigiously long, crooked, and inflammatory; his eyes full, brilliant, and acute; his chin and cheeks, although wrinkled with age, were broad, puffy and double. ...”(9) The “droll little somebody,” of course, reflects Poe's contempt for one whom he would, one month later, label “King Pest.’” The allusion to the feet as “horny” creates the image of the devil. Poe leaves little doubt that he, as an aristocrat, sees Jackson in league with the devil. The “enormous hands” signify the Jackson who could not keep his hands off the Bank of the United States before he had destroyed it one year earlier.
What delight Poe must have taken in squashing the tall, emaciated-looking Jackson into a round, plump, little butterball of a moon-man! Through “inversion! Poe distorted the image of Jackson that people were so familiar with: “ ... a tall, lank, uncouth-looking personage, with long locks of hair hanging over his face, and a queue down his back tied in an eel skin; his dress singular, his manners and deportment those of a rough backwoodsman.”(10) In all the photographs or paintings of Jackson two features stand out: His thick gray hair and long nose. In 1835, when the tale was written Jackson looked like the “old man” in Poe's description of the moon-man. A portrait of Jackson depicts him wearing a top hat that has a broad brim and a black band that has the width of a hand. It looks like the car that Poe says the moon-man is standing in, which is attached to the balloon: ‘Suspended by blue ribbons to the end of this fantastic machine, there hung, by way of a car, an enormous drab beaver hat with a brim superlatively broad and a hemispherical crown with a black band and a silver buckle. It is, however, somewhat remark- able that many citizens of Rotterdam swore to having seen the same hat: repeatedly before; and indeed the whole assembly seemed to regard it with eyes of familiarity; while the vrow Grettel Pfaall, upon sight of it, uttered an exclamation of joyful surprise, and declared it to be the identical hat of her good man himself.”(11)
The “blood-red silk handkerchief! that he wears around his neck alludes to Jackson's bloody past. His duels in defense of his wife's virtue and his execution of six prisoners while a major general in the War of 1812 figured prominently in his campaign for the presidency. Later, the moon-man takes out a pocketbook “tied carefully with red tape.” The phrase “red tape” as a colloquialism for a mechanistic adherence to rules by government officials or excessive formality or attention to routine by them gained popularity as early as 1831 when Fraser's Magazine introduced it. Carlyle used it in England at about the same time. In 1835, Poe used it in “Hans Pfaall.” Earlier in the tale the crowd in Rotterdam watches the descent of the balloon: Yes! it was undoubtedly a species of balloon; but surely no such balloon had ever been seen in Rotterdam before. For who, let me ask, ever heard of a balloon manufactured entirely of dirty newspapers?(12) In this picture Poe takes his broadest shot at Jackson yet. In 1828, the dirtiest campaign ever waged, Jackson-controlled newspapers tore President Adams's policies to shreds.
Parton describes the vital role played by a favorable Jackson press in this election year. Besides mentioning Isaac Hill and Duff Green he adds: “At New York, Colonel James Watson Webb, the editor of the Courier, was doing great service on the same side. ... Associated with Colonel Webb, at the time, was an individual ... James Gordon Bennett. ... Mr. Ingham, too, made himself conspicuous as the pamphleteer. ...”(13) Parton also names Francis P. Blair, founder of “The Globe” in Washington, as well as Amos Kendall who assisted him in that newspaper enterprise. Again in 1832, Jackson's powerful press machine continued to help him. By that time its ranks had swelled to include William B. Lewis and A. J. Donelson. These men constituted the famous “Kitchen Cabinet” of Andrew Jackson. This “Cabinet” consisted of newspaper editors who earned their title by drinking coffee with Jackson in the kitchen of the White House where they decided the policies of the nation.(14)
The “balloon manufactured by the dirty newspapers” proves, then, to be a symbol for Jackson himself. But Poe's equating of Jackson with a balloon did not end there. Hans injured himself when he blasted off to the moon. In falling out of the balloon he caught his foot in rope. He thus remained for some time hanging upside down outside of the balloon: “I afterward examined my head, shaking it repeatedly, and feeling it with minute attention, until I succeeded in satisfying myself [page 71:] that it was not, as I had more than half suspected, larger than my balloon.”(15) The symbolical relationship of Jackson's head to a balloon recalls Reiss's Latin derivation of follis in its popular meanings of “windbag” or “empty-headed person.” As the OED indicates Thomas Carlyle had used “windbag” to mean “an empty pretender or something pretentious but unsubstantiated” as early as 1827. Reiss also noted that the original meaning of “follis” was bellows.” And here, in a single tale, Poe runs the full course of the meaning of “follis” from “bellows,” to “windbag,” to “fool.” To complete the analogy of “dirty newspapers” to “balloon, to “bellows,” to “windbag,” Poe brings the symbol full circle. He ends with “dirty newspapers” when Hans, a bellows mender by trade, writes that his profession Will become extinct: “If a fire wanted fanning it could readily be fanned with a newspaper.”(16)
In his letter to the citizens of Rotterdam, Hans explains the major reason for his leaving the city. Before explaining, however, he pauses to give some interesting background: “It is known to most of my fellow citizens, that for the period of forty years I continued to occupy the little square brick building, at the head of the alley called Sauerkraut. ...”(17) Another universally known house in Washington, D. C., is the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue. In his house, Hans continues, “my ancestors have also resided time out of mind.”(18) More to the point, Hans reminds them that his profession had once been lucrative: “For, to speak the truth, until of late years, that the heads of all the people have been set agog with politics .... Credit was good, employment was never wanting, and on all hands there was no lack of either money or good will. But as I was saying, we soon began to feel the effects of liberty and long speeches, and radicalism, and all that sort of thing.”(19) with all this talk about money and prosperity before Jackson, Poe tore away the veil of parody in these lines. He begins a stinging attack on Jacksonian economy. For the radicalism of Jackson had destroyed the Bank of the United States in 1834. We see that, owing to his poverty, Hans was forced to flee. Three creditors, in particular, constantly hounded him, “Keeping watch about my door.”(20) The three men whose political and economic presence worried Jackson the most, I suspect, were those he had only recently vanquished: His 1832 presidential rival, Henry Clay; his 1828 presidential rival, John Quincy Adams, who abetted Clay in 1832; and Nicholas Biddle, President of the Bank of the United States.
Poe's allegorical parody of Andrew Jackson may be seen in other examples that create the Jacksonian milieu. Yet the same process of selecting, annulling, and inverting” continues. At the beginning of the story while the crowd stares at the descending balloon, the narrator gives the reader some additional background information on the mysterious disappearance of Hans and his three creditors five years before: “To be sure, some bones which were thought to be human, mixed up with a quantity of odd-looking rubbish, had been lately discovered in a retired situation to the east of Rotterdam.”(21) Later in Hans’ narrative he tells the citizens of Rotterdam that after all of his elaborate plans had been completed: “I then took opportunities of conveying by night, to a retired situation east of Rotterdam. ... ”(22) The phrase “retired situation” in the context of Andrew Jackson's life suggests the great place of comfort in his life: The Hermitage. Jackson had given this symbolic name to his plantation home near Nashville, Tennessee, where he always took refuge from the wars and political campaigns. Another example of Poe's inversion may be seen in this allusion. For the Hermitage was situated south, not east, of Washington, D. C..
The Hermitage also figures in Poe's treatment of Rachel Jackson in the guise of Grettel Pfaall who played the role of confederate in Hans' scheme: “I extracted from my wife an oath of secrecy. ... Indeed I had no fear on her account. She was what people call a notable woman, and could manage matters in the world without my assistance.”(23) Jackson's wife, Rachel, possessed such independence that one commentator remarked of her: “She had been a sympathetic and beloved comrade to this fiery leader, and a strong and capable helpmate who handled the Hermitage plantation while he was absent on military campaigns.”(24) One big clue to Jackson's identity as Hans lies in Poe's reference to Rachel Jackson as ‘what people call a no table woman.” An example of Poe's inversion of the words “notorious woman” is evidenced in “notable woman.” This allusion refers to the state of adultery in which Andrew Jackson and Rachel lived for two years. Rachel Donelson had married Captain Robards. After a time she left him. Several reconciliations proved fruitless. And she left him permanently in 1791. Acting on information that the Virginia Legislature had granted a divorce to Captain Robards in 1791, Jackson married Rachel in the summer of 1791. Two years later Robards won a divorce in Kentucky. Jackson was forced to remarry Rachel in January, 1794.(25) [page 72:]
One of the major issues in the 1828 campaign, then, consisted of an attack on the “notorious woman” condemned not only as a divorced woman — a fact shocking enough in the midst of a Victorian age — but also as an adulteress as well. So powerful did this weapon prove to be against Jackson that one of his most trusted aids spent months in seeking out the truth. Of his wife Hans writes: “I believe, to tell the truth, she always looked upon me as an idle boy, a mere make-weight, good for nothing but building castles in the air. ...”(26) This speech captures the spirit of Rachel Jackson's known opposition to her husband's courtship of the presidency: “Although handsome and vivacious, she had no desire for public life, and had said at the time of her husband's election; ‘For Mr. Jackson's sake, I’m glad; for my own part, I never wished it.’”(27)
As powerful and persuasive as all these arguments may be, a skeptic may be still unconvinced that Poe created a “kind of allegorical parody” of Andrew Jackson in “Hans Pfaall.” For after all it may be asserted that Hans does not assume the role of the president or even burgomaster of Rotterdam. But herein lies the Poesque twist to the hoax. The very name given to the burgomaster, “Von Underduk,” provides a clue. An “Underduk” is an “underling” and connotes “subservience.” The burgomaster is depicted as an “Under-duck.” And in the beginning of the tale, the Dutch mob led by Von Underduk looks up to someone higher than they — the moon man double of Hans. To whom would the mob of Jacksonian democracy look up? To whom would Van Buren look up? They would look up only to the President himself, Andrew Jackson.
In a later passage Poe becomes prophetic: “But the aeronaut, still greatly discomposed, and having apparently no further business to detain him in Rotterdam, began at this moment to make busy preparations for departure; and it being necessary to discharge a portion of ballast to enable him to reascend, the half dozen bags which he threw out, one after another, without taking the trouble to empty their contents, tumbled, every one of them, most unfortunately upon the back of the burgomaster.”(28) In less than one year following the publication of “Hans Pfaall” Jackson announced he would not seek another term as president. He, there- fore, cast the burdens of his office, political and economic, on the “back” of Martin Van Buren who succeeded him. Van Buren felt the blow like Von Underduk: “ ... and rolled him [Underduk] over and over no less than one-and-twenty times. ...”(29) The burden proved too heavy for Van Buren. The financial “Panic of 1837” occurred during his administration. The humble occupation of Hans, then, characterizes Jack- son's own humble origins that gave him so great an affinity with the common man that he became his symbol and spokesman. If doubt lingers, then the motto of the story should erase it. When Poe first published the story he gave it a motto that he omitted in subsequent reprintings. Poe's scholarship has shown that whenever a motto appears under a title it provides a reliable clue to the satire. Reiss provides the motto of the original piece:
With a heart of furious fancies
Whereof I am commander
With a burning spear and a horse of air
To the wilderness I wander.
Tom O’Bedlam's Song(30)
Its comic element shines through in the fictional name of the author. ‘Bedlam” refers to the famous madhouse in England. What better way could Poe find to characterize the mob under the leadership of Jackson than to label them lunatics? But the motto itself spells out Poe's feelings of Jackson even more poignantly. Jackson's political and economic policies are born of a heart or mind of “furious fancies.” Jackson had always been a commander. His exploits on the frontier as well as his title of major-general in the War of 1812 illustrate this fact. As President of the United States Jackson inherited the title of Commander-in-Chief. Surely the “commander” of the motto suggests Andrew Jackson. In the “burning spear” allusion Poe refers to Jackson's blazing gun duels in defense of his wife's virtue and his violent temper. Jackson was known to wield the sword more readily than the pen. Through this motto, then, Poe furnished the strongest clue to the fact of hoax and to the subject of hoax. In it he also expressed his fear that the lunacy of Jacksonian democracy would surely lead the nation back “to the wilderness” of chaos.
In “Hans Pfaall” Poe has written one of the greatest hoaxes of his multi- faceted career. It fooled his mass audience whom he always succeeded in hoaxing. [page 73:] It has also misled his modern critics, who followed the wrong trails, missed the carefully contrived clues, and summarily dismissed this tale as just another science-fiction spoof.
Trinity College, Hartford
1 Thomas O. Mabbott challenged literary detectives to identify the authors satirized and the names of the Folio Club tales in 1928. Thomas O. Mabbott, “On Poe's ‘Tales of the Folio Club,’ “ Sewanee Review, XXXVI (April, 1928), 171-176.
2 “Is Poe's ‘The Assignation’ a Hoax?” Nineteenth Century Fiction, XVIII (Sept., 1963), 193-197.
3 “Is Poe's ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains” a Hoax?” Studies in Short Fiction, (Summer, 1969), 454-460.
4 Op. cit., p. 103.
5 University of Texas Studies in English, XXXV, (1956), 81-95.
6 The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. Arthur Hobson Quinn and Edward O’Neill, (N.Y., 1964), I, 160. This work will hereafter be cited as QO.
7 “The Comic Setting of ‘Hans Pfaall,’” American Literature, XXIX, (Nov., 1957), 306-309.
8 QO, I, 193.
9 Ibid., I, p. 162:
10 James Parton, Life of Andrew Jackson, (N.Y., 1861), I, 196.
11 QO, I, 161-162.
12 Ibid., p. 163.
13. Parton, op cit., III, 145-147.
14 Ibid., pp. 173-183.
15 QO, I, 169.
16 Ibid., p. 164.
17 Ibid., p. 164.
18 Ibid.
19 Ibid.
20 Ibid.
21 Ibid., p. 166.
22 Ibid., p. 166.
23 Ibid., p. 167.
24 “Rachel Jackson,” Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia and Fact Index, (Chicago, 1949), XV, 90.
25. Parton, op. cit., I, 146-153.
26 QO, I, 167.
27 Compton's, op. cit.
28 QO, I, 163.
29 Ibid.
30 Op. cit., 309.
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