Text: de Vos' (Friedrich Prien, Halle 1887). Criticism: Th. Carlyle, Literature of the 14th and 15th Centuries' (Foreign Quarterly Review, 1831).
High Clermari.— Gottsched's translation in 1752 of the Lilbeck version of 1498, illustrated with Everdingen's fine engravings, was read in extract by Goethe to Duchess Amalie in 1782, and the acquisition of profane bible' in 1783 him happy as a child,' but it was his disgust at the failure of the campaign to rescue Louis XVI in 1793 that caused him to write: I endeavored. to rescue myself from this hideous misfortune by declaring the whole world infamous . . . it was now (in (Reinke Vos') really amusing to see court and ruler intrigues mirrored. For even if the human race appeared quite natural in its un disguised bestiality, things went off amusingly, if not perfectly? Goethe's work adds prac tically nothing to the original except his own political confession in the eighth canto. He divided the poem into 12 cantos and adopted the dactylic hexameter in place of the rime verses of four accents of the Goethe's version gave rise to Wm. Kaulbach's
inimitable drawings, the delight of older gen erations.
Text: Gottsched, J. C., Fuchs' (1752, and Halle 1886) ' • Goethe's (Werke) (1794, Vol. II) ; Fuchs' (Munich 1847; with Kaulbach's woodcuts; tr. into English by T. J. Arnold) ; Simrocfc, K. J., Fuchs' (Frankfurt 1845, original metre) i Sol tau, 'Reineke Fuchs' (Berlin 1803, original metre).
and the Wolf' (13th cen tury), Chaucer's (Nonne Preestes Tale,' and Caxton's translation (1481) of the Gouda re print of 1479, populanzed the tale in England. In 1844 W. J. Thorns edited the last for the Percy Society. In 1895 appeared Joseph Jacobs' Most Delectable History of Reynard the Fox,' ivith a valuable introduction. In 1852, E. W. Holloway published in Leipzig (Reynard the Fox,' translated from the German of Sim rock mainly, illustrated by the fine woodcuts of H. Leutermann. T. I. Arnold translated from Goethe with illustrations by J. Wolf (1855) • same with illustrations by W. von Kaulbach (1860).
Caw. E. Eacuarr, Sometime Assistant Professor of German, Uni versity of Michigan.