[62] The reference in question reads as follows: "Ich will kein Wort verlieren über den Wert dieses unverdaulichen Machwerkes [_Les Burgraves_], das mit allen möglichen Prätensionen auftritt, namentlich mit historischen, obgleich alles Wissen Victor Hugos über Zeit und Ort, wo sein Stück spielt, lediglich aus der französischen Uebersetzung von Schreibers _Handbuch für Rheinreisende_ geschöpft, ist." This was written March 20, 1843 (see Elster edition, VI. 344). [63] Aloys Wilhelm Schreiber (1763-1840) was a teacher in the Lyceum at Baden-Baden (1800-1802), professor of aesthetics at Heidelberg (1802-13) where he was intimate with the Voss family, historiographer at Karlsruhe (1813-26), and in 1826 he retired and became a most prolific writer. He interested himself in guidebooks for travelers. His manuals contain maps, distances, expense accounts, historical sketches, in short, about what the modern _Baedeker_ contains with fewer statistics and more popular description. His books appeared in German, French, and English. In 1812 he published his _Handbuch für Reisende am Rhein von Schaffhausen bis Holland_, to give only a small part of the wordy title, and in 1818 he brought out a second, enlarged edition of the same work with an appendix containing 17 _Volkssagen aus den Gegenden am Rhein und am Taunus_, the sixteenth of which is entitled "Die Jungfrau auf dem Lurley." His books were exceedingly popular in their day and are still obtainable. Of the one here in question, Von Weech (_Allgem. deut. Biog._, XXXII, 471) says: "Sein _Handbuch für Reisende am Rhein_, dessen Anhang eine wertvolle Sammlung rheinischer Volkssagen enthält, war lange der beliebteste Führer auf Rheinreisen." There are 7 volumes of his manuals in the New York Public Library, and one, _Traditions populaires du Rhin,_ Heidelberg, 1830 (2d ed.), is in the Columbia Library. It contains 144 legends and beautiful engravings. (The writer has just [October 15, 1915] secured the four Volumes of Schreiber's _Rheinische Geschichten und Sagen_. The fourth volume, published in 1830. is now a very rare book.)