Crossword-Solution: MEUSEL 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Pierer boldly stated that it was a successful anonymous satire upon the English government of the day, while Meusel with equal temerity affirmed in his "Lexikon" that the book was a translation of the "well-known Munchausen lies" executed from a (non-existent) German original by Rudolph Erich Raspe.

Meusel in his account of Zückert gives the date of the first edition as 1774, and the second edition is registered but the date is left blank.

Other mention in Meusel's magazines is either entirely unoriginal summary (_Museum_, VI, 352) or mere cursory comment (_Miscellaneen_, Stück 30.) The articles on caricature (Neue _Miscellaneen_ X., 154 and Archiv I, 66) are so late that they cannot be taken into consideration in connection with Tieck's paper.

Whilst the Quintaner was exercising the _jus compascui_ on the cake, and six arms were peacefully resting on Thiennette's free-table, Fixlein read to himself and the company the Flachsenfingen Address-calendar; any higher thing, except Meusel's _Gelehrtes Deutschland_,[39] he could not figure; the Kammerherrs and Raths of the Calendar went tickling over his tongue like the raisins of the cake; and of the more rich church-livings he, by reading, as it were levied a tithe.

Meusel's learned Germany might be copied in baker's-work,--one might emboss great heroes upon army-biscuit, in order to set on fire the common soldiery and make them hunger for glory,--great poets I would sketch on bridal-cakes in inlaid sculpture, and heraldic geniuses on oatmeal bread,--of authors for women sweet box-pictures might be designed for sugar-work.