NOTES

The story of Reineke Fuchs zs more than any other a
truly European performance ; for some centuries the universal
Lfousehold Possession and Secular Bible, read everywhere, in
the palace and the hut. . . . Lt comes before us with a character
such as can belong only to very few, that of being a true
Worlds Book which through centuries was everywhere at
home, the spirit of which diffused itself into all languages and
all minds, CARLYLE,