apropos of vs re

apropos of

prep
  • Concerning; with regard to; about; apropos; in relation to. 

re

prep
  • About, regarding, with reference to; especially in letters, documents and emails. 

noun
  • a syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale. 

How often have the words apropos of and re occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )