English.  In 1812 he published his Handbuch fUer 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
    fUer Reisende am Rhein, dessen Anhang eine wertvolle Sammlung
    rheinischer Volkssagen enthAelt, war lange der beliebteste FUehrer
    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.)

[64] The remainder of Schreiher’s plot is as follows:  The news of the
    infatuated hero’s death so grieved the old Count that ho
    determined to have the Lorelei captured, dead or alive.  One of his
    captains, aided by a number of brave followers, set out on the
    hazardous expedition.  First, they surround the rock on which the
    Lorelei sits, and. then three of the most courageous ascend to her
    seat and determine to kill her, so that the danger of her
    repealing her former deed maybe forever averted.  But when they
    reach her and she hoars what they intend to do, she simply smiles
    and invokes the aid of her Father, who immediately sends two white
    horses—­two white waves—­up the Rhine, and. after leaping down to
    the Rhine, she is safely carried away by these.  She was never
    again seen, but her voice was frequently heard as she mocked, in
    echo, the songs of the sailors on her paternal stream.

[65] It is not simply in the appendix of Schreiber’s Handbuch
    that he discusses the legend of Lorelei, but also in the
    scientific part of it.  Concerning the Lorelei rock he says
    (pp. 174-75):  “Ein wunderbarer Fels schiebt sich jetzt dem
    Schiffer gleichsam in seine Bahn—­es ist der Lurley (von Lure,
    Lauter, und Ley, Schiefer) aus welchem ein Echo den Zuruf der
    Vorbeifahrendem fUenfzehnmal wiederholt.  Diesen Schieferfels
    bewohnte in grauen Zeiten eine Undine, welche die Schiffenden
    durch ihr Zurufen ins Verderben lockte.”

[66] Brockhaus says (p. xxiv):  “Die einfache Sage von den beiden
    feindlichen BrUedern am Rhein, van denen die TrUemmer ihrer BUergen
    selbst noch Die BrUeder heissen ist in A. Schreiber’s
    Auswahl von Sagen jener Gegenden zu lesen.”  Usener’s tragedy is
    published In full in this number of Urania, pp. 383-442.