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Saxl that Meinhof abbreviated his review accordingly.162 Max Warburg
agreed163 and it was left to Saxl to go back to Meinhof and explain the twists
and turns on the way to get a declaration o f intent from the editors of the
Berliner Tageblatt to print a review, but not more than forty lines o f print. Saxl actually asked him to abridge his review to “ forty printed pages” -a very
telling mistake. He apologized for requesting this work but did so knowing
full well “that it was in the interest o f the one man who should be helped
with this essay.” 164 It was a full year after the publication o f the Luther book
that Meinhof’s review was published, which Saxl found “more well meaning
than less well written.” 165
Reviews of the book by Warburg, with a genesis o f more than four years,
spanning the most difficult years in the political situation of Germany as
much as in the health situation of Aby Warburg, were published in sixteen
newspapers and journals. We know from the correspondence that Carl F.
