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FAMOUS SONGS
Chariot's " Chanson des Allemands contre la France pendant la guerre d'invasion 1870-1871" attributes the composition to a Prussian general, probably the Crown Prince. It was evident, indeed, that the song was the work of a man of education, who was attempting to write in a popular style. The real author was one of the most unpopular men of his day, a declared Lichtfeind, afterward a Lutheran minister at Basedow, in Mecklenburg, who had been a soldier in his youth. The song is a develop-ment of some verses written about the first Napoleon:
" Was hat der ruin za Kraachen dort? Drauf, Kameraden, jagt lhn fort,"
and originally consisted of four stanzas that were printed in the " Mecklenburgische An-zeiger" for the first time. At once various guesses as to the author were made, while presents of all kinds, from all parts, were sent to the army in the field " For the brave fusilier Kutschke." But Pistorius had a rival claimant. A Rhineland poet arose and said that he had written a song exactly the same in a Rhenish railroad car, where he had left it lying, and that in all probability Pistorius had picked it up. Pistorius was most likely never on a Rhenish
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