Fabelreich: Menschentorheit und Menschentugend im Maskenkleid des Aussermenschlichen
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1924
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Here is an eighty-eight page paperbound book of fables. Was Der Spielmann perhaps a magazine? The T of C at the end gives titles and authors. There are fifty-eight fables by a variety of fabulists, all German--as is fitting for the series. The first fable comes from Abraham a Santa Clara. It tells in detail the old story of unthankfulness, but adds a new chapter. In this version, a farmer listens to the plea of a snake which a stone has confined in a hole. When the freed snake wants to kill the farmer, the man asks for opinions of others. They meet first a horse and then a dog, both of whom speak of human unthankfulness. Finally a fox does the usual trick of getting the snake back into his enclosed hole. The man gratefully invites the fox to a meal of chicken soup the next day, but his wife kills the fox as soon as the animal arrives. The further chapter adds something to the story, I would say! There are frequent black-and-white illustrations of varying size, many of which show more than usual wit. One of the best of these is TMCM on 32. There are also four full-page colored illustrations. These colored pages have two panels. Perhaps the most curious of these colored illustrations is for Das Heupferd oder der Grashüpfer (27). Lessing's fable tells of the grasshopper (das Heupferd) who congratulates himself on getting an overloaded wagon moving. In the panel below the farm scene is a human being holding up a Zeppelin! The book was originally sold in the Treue Buchhandling in Sollstedt bei Nordhausen. Is that the Spielmann himself pictured on the colored cover?
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Georg D. W. Callwey Verlag des deutschen Spielmanns,
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5871 (Access ID)