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129F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
14 June 1912
Dear Friend,
Many thanks for your willingness to consider my suggestions concerning the Pharaoh. The work will, I hope, be an adornment for , which is, incidentally, going surprisingly well. 230 subscribers on account from the first issue on, mostly from Germany. Vienna has very little part in it.
I too think you have a right to holidays. This year I have been more productive than in earlier years and am visiting Karlsbad again also for this reason. September, as I have perhaps already said, is still quite uncertain; so it is not at all improbable that we shall meet again in that month.
The Open Forum in the is certainly a good institution. I felt very little sympathy for Marcinowski, but the last time he was here he conquered much ground. That he does not join is a symptom of his neurosis, with which his censorious cravings, which astonish you, are probably also connected. But I learn a bit more tolerance every day, and I am satisfied if someone has only a few good sides, which is certainly the case with M.
Your approval of the last technical article was very valuable to me. You will probably have noticed the critical intentions. At present my intellectual activity would have been limited to correcting the proofs of the 4th edition of Everyday Life,1 if it had not suddenly occurred to me that the opening scene of Lear, the judgement of Paris, and the choice of caskets in the Merchant of Venice are based on the same motif, which I