the essentials of Brentano’s ballad
    collapses, for this MS cannot be produced, not even by Bender who
    claims to have found it.  See Cardauns, pp. 60-67.  Reinhold Steig
    reviewed Cardauns’ book in Euphorion (1896, pp. 791-99)
    without taking in the question as to the originality of Brentano’s
    ballad.

[96] P. 224.

[97] In Geibel’s Gesammelte Werke, VI. 106-74, Geibel wrote the
    libretto for Felix Mendelssohn in 1846.  Mendelssohn died before
    finishing it; Max Bruch completed the opera independently in
    1863.  It has also been set to music by two obscure composers.  Karl
    Goedeke gives a very unsatisfactory discussion of the matter in
    Emanuel Geibel, Stuttgart, 1860. pp. 307 ff.

[98] Hermann Seeliger says (p. 73):  “Zu den Bearbeitungen, die sich an
    die Ballade von Brentano anlehnen, gehOeren die Dichtungen von
    Geibel, Mohr, Roquette, Hillemacher, Fiebach und Sommer.”  Seeliger
    wrote his study for musicians, and his statement may be correct.

[99] Aside from the treatises on the Lorelei already mentioned, there
    are the following:  Zu Heines Balladen und Romanzen, by
    Oskar Netoliczka, Kronstadt, 1891; this study does not treat the
    Lorelei; Die Lurleisage, by F. Rehorn, Frankfurt am Main,
    1891; Sagen und Geschichten des Rheinlandes, by Karl Geib,
    Mannheim, 1836; the work is naturally long since superseded;
    KOelnische Zeitung of July 12, 1867, by H. Grieben;
    KOelnische Zeitung of 1855, by H. DUentzer; H.  Heine, ein
    Vortrag, by H. Sintenis, pp. 21-26; Die Lorelei:  Die
    Loreleidichtungen mit besonderer RUecksicht auf die Ballade von
    Heinr.  Heine, by C. L. Leimbach, WolfenbUettel, 1879.  The last
    six of these works were not accessible, but, since they are quoted
    by the accessible studies, it seems that they offer nothing
    new. (The writer has since secured Leimbach’s treatise of 50 small
    pages.  It offers nothing new.)

[100] Adolf Seybert in his Die Loreleisage, Wiesbaden, 1863 and
    1872 (Programm), contends that Frau Holla and the Lorelei are
    related.  Fritz Strich in his Die Mythologie in der deutschen
    Literatur von Klopstock bis Wagner, Halle, 1910, says
    (pp. 307-9) that Brentano’s ballad is “eine mythologische
    Erfindung Brentanos, zu der ihn der echoreiche Felsen dieses
    Namens bei Bacharach anregte.”  He also says:  “Ob nicht Heines Lied
    auf Brentanos Phantasie zurUeckgewirkt haben mag?” The reference is
    to Brentano’s MAerchen.  Strich’s book contains a detailed
    account of the use of mythology in Heine, Loeben, and Brentano.

[101] Hermann Seeliger says (p. 8):  “Ich meine, die ganze romantische
    Schule hAette ohne den Stoff vom Volke zu bekommen, ein Gedicht von
    solcher SchOenheit wie das von Brentano weder gemacht noch machen
    kOennen.”  Vis-a-vis such a statement, sociability ceases.