Monday, July 25:
Sad unto death!
Jakob returns from the dairy farmer’s funeral and reports that a telegram has announced the imminent engagement of the troops, I pray with my children for the Germans. After lunch to Countess Bassenheim’s. In the evening our friends. R. said at lunch that he is basing his whole essay on a sentence which I let slip: that music goes far beyond beauty.
In the afternoon Fidi in the “blue closet;” then R.