" Through many others of his letters rings this vain "leit-motif" like the wail of Tristan.

The legend that the bees had come from Venus, with the perfect cereal, wheat, as patterns of perfection from that farther evolved planetfascinated, became the leit-motif of his thoughts for weeks.

It has been like a leit-motif through all the drama of this war in France, through the spirit of the French people waiting patiently for victory, hiding their tears for the dead, consoling their wounded and their cripples, and giving their youngest and their manhood to the God of War.

There was no leit-motiv, no attempt to reflect the passionate emotion of the drama, but a great deal of Southern joy, of flutes and wood and wind.