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No one can read Schreiber's Handbuch and Heine's Rabbi without being convinced that the former stood sponsor for the latter. And lastly, Heine wrote before 1821 his poem entitled "Die zwei Brüder." It is the tenth of the seventeen Volkssagen by Schreiber, the same theme as the one treated by W. Usener already referrred to.
Germany and France have not contributed so largely to the modern library, but in the first country we find several useful works by Max von dem Borne, beginning with the Handbuch der Angelfischerei of 1875, and there are a good many other writers who have contributed to the subject, while in France there are a few volumes on fishing by different hands.
It is an old story, and Heine could have derived his material from a number of places, but not from Grimm's Deutsche Sagen, indeed from no place so convenient as Schreiber. Heine knew Schreiber's Handbuch in 1823. The situation, then, is as follows: Heine had to have a source or sources, There are three candidates for Heine honors; Brentano, Loeben, Schreiber.
"Once in the year," says Troschel's 'Handbuch der Zoologie, "they migrate in great crowds to the sea in order to deposit their eggs, and afterwards return much exhausted towards their dwelling places, which are reached only by a few." The most important peculiarities which distinguish this Zoea-brood from the adult animal, are as follows:
For political events in the Germanies in the sixteenth century: E. F. Henderson, A Short History of Germany, 2 vols. in 1 ; Sidney Whitman, Austria ; Gustav Welf, Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation , an elaborate study; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs von der aeltesten Zeit, Vol. I, ch. iii-v; G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, 4th ed.
III, an excellent account though somewhat antiquated; Franz Krones, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs, Vol. II , ch. xix-xxi; G. W. Kitchin, A History of France, Vol. VIII , ch. ii- iv; E. J. Lowell, The Eve of the French Revolution , an able survey; Sophia H. MacLehose, The Last Days of the French Monarchy , a popular narrative. VIII, Part II, Regne de Louis XV, 1715-1774 , and Vol.
On the history of the Germanies from the religious peace of Augsburg to the peace of Westphalia there is the painstaking Deutsche Geschichte im Zeitalter der Gegenreformation und des dreissigjaehrigen Krieges, 1555-1648, by Moritz Ritter, 3 vols. For the history of Austria during the period, see Franz Kroncs, Handbuch der Geschichte Oesterreichs von der aeltesten Zeit, Vol.
The works here mentioned respecting the several countries either relate to their entire history, or to their history prior to the close of the Middle Ages. IRELAND. C. G. Walpole, The Kingdom of Ireland; Morris, Ireland. Rechtsgeschichte; Richter, Annalen. Coxe's History of the House of Austria; KRONES'S Handbuch d.
In brief, the similarity is so striking that, if we can prove that Heine knew Schreiber in 1823, we can definitely assert that Schreiber was his main, if not his unique, source. Let us take up the various arguments in favor of the contention that Heine knew Schreiber's Handbuch in 1823, beginning with the least convincing.
For the sake of brevity the minor subdivisions are omitted: Introduction. H. Hermelink in Krüger's Handbuch der Kirchengeschicte , III, 66. Weimar Ed., I, pp. 525 ff.
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