EULENSPIEGEL

(ol’len-spé-gl), Tyl, a name which has become a ociated in Germany with all sorts of wild, whimsical frolics, and with many amusing stories. Some such popular hero of tradition and folk-lore seems to have really existed in Germany, probably in the first half of the fourteenth century, and a collection of popular tales of a frolicsome character, originally written in Low i German, purports to contain his adventures. The earliest edition of such is a Str as bourg one of the year 1515 in the British Museum. Better known, however, is that of 1519, published also at Str as bourg by Thomas Miirner (under the titie Howle-gla ). The work was early translated into English and almost all European tongues. A modern English translation appeared in 1890.