_Lettres Persanes_ (1721). Through French influence the Oriental story
came to Germany, and so we get such works as August Gottlob Meissner's
tales of _Nushirvan_, _Massoud_, _Giaffar_, _Sadi_ and others,[78] or
Klinger's _Derwisch_. Wieland used the Eastern costume in his _Schach
Lolo_ (1778) and in his politico-didactic romance of the wise
Danischmende. This fondness for an Oriental atmosphere continues even
into the nineteenth century and may be seen in such works as Tieck's
_Abdallah_ and Hauff's _Karawane_. But this brings us to the time when
India and Persia were to give up their secrets, and when the influence
of their literature begins to be a factor in the literature of Europe.


FOOTNOTES:

[49] See Kunstmann, Die Fahrt der ersten Deutschen nach dem
portugiesischen Indien in Hist. pol. Blätter f. d. Kath. Deutschl.,
München, 1861, vol. 48, pp. 277-309.

[50] For title see Panzer, Annalen d. älteren deutsch. Litt., Nürnb.
1788.

[51] See Grässe, op. cit. ii. 2. pp. 773, 774.

[52] Des Welt-berühmten Adami Olearii colligirte und viel vermehrte
Reise-Beschreibungen etc., Hamb. 1696, chap. xxv.

[53] Ibid. chap. xxviii. p. 327 seq.

[54] Olearius, op. cit., Preface to the Rosenthal. Full title of
Ochsenbach's book in Buch der Beispiele, ed. Holland, p. 258, n. 1.