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Excerpt from Goethes Reineke Fuchs: The First Five Cantos, Edited With Notes
The attractive editions of the Reynard-stories which constantly appear show how fond all people still are Of the secular world-bible. Several of these are worth examining in connection with Goethe's poem; for in stance, The History of Reynard the Fox, a free ren dering of Caxton's version into verse by F. S. Ellis with devices by Walter Crane (london, Nutt, The Most Delectable History Of Reynard the Fox, Sir Henry Cole's version for children, with pictures by W. Frank Calderon (london, Macmillan, and Reynard the Fox, an early apologue of Renown, in verse based on Gothe's by J. S. Cobb, with Canton's illustrations (bos ton, Damrell 8: Upham.
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