16); the two "Fantasiestuecke" of op.

17: "Erzaehlung" and the much-played "Hexentanz"; the "Barcarolle" and "Humoreske" of op.

18; and the "Wald-Idyllen" (op.

19): "Waldesstille," "Spiel der Nymphen," "Traeumerei," "Dryadentanz." [2] I give the German titles under which these compositions were originally published.
In June, 1884, MacDowell returned to America, and on July 21, at Waterford, Connecticut, he was married to his former pupil, Miss Marian Nevins--a union, which, for perfection of sympathy and closeness of comradeship, was, during the quarter of a century for which it was to endure, nothing less than ideal.

A few days later MacDowell and his bride sailed from New York for Europe, innocent of any very definite plans for the immediate future.