“Don't remember the title,” said he.
“But think, man! Think! Who wrote it?”
“Did n't notice that, either. Some German, though.”
“That can not be,” said I, with some excitement, I will admit. “Neither Boag nor von Stumbostel is within five years of publishing the results of his researches. I am nearer it than they.
“My first volume, 'The Origins of Musical Sound,' stands now in galley proof and will be published within two years. No, no, no! There is no German work that is the authority on primitive music. There is, as yet, no authoritative work. Van Haalst, Elton, Père Avard, and twenty others, merely pointed the way. All of them pointed the way wrong in certain important respects. No, if there is an authority, it is myself. I am the standard authority. The Minister does not know what he is talking about.”
Hindmann grinned.
“Seems to me,” he observed, “it was published at Bonn.”
“At Bonn!” I shouted at him—“At Bonn!”
“Yes—I'm sure it was Bonn.”
“It was not the book of von Westfall?”