text: " It is easy to understand that there can be little sympathy between the Countess Hahn-Hahn an imaginative and somewhat capricious fine lady with strong aristocratic and exclusive tendencies and such a matter-of-fact person as Mr Boas who in spite of his sentimentality which is a sort of national infirmity and although he informs us in one part of his book that he is a poet leans much more to the practical and positive than to the imaginative and dreamy and we moreover suspect is a bit of a democrat