In a paper read before the Modern Language Association of America in 1899 (Americana Germanica, vol. iii, pp. 386–392), Dr. C. W. Eastman presented evidence that seemed to him to warrant the conclusion that Hauff modeled his historical romance Lichtenstein upon Scott's Ivanhoe. His contention is well supported and does not lack plausibility. But inasmuch as I had been accustomed for several years to set my students in the Criticism of the Novel the practice-task of hunting for the similarities in Lichtenstein and Waverley, which seem to me quite obvious, I was not disposed to let the claim of Dr. Eastman pass without closer examination.