“ Schiller, who found this work wanting in aesthetic dignity, yet allowed that the keen knowledge of men and things it displays makes it a valuable contribution to literature. Thummel's other writings are unimportant.
His collected works were published at Leipzig in six volumes (1812) , and again in 1820 (7 vols.) , with a biography by J. E. von Gruner. The most recent edition is that of 1855 (8 vols.) . See also F. Bobertag, Erzählende Prosa der klassischen Periode vol. i. (Kiirschner's Deutsche Nationalliteratur, vol. exxxvi., 1886) . Wilhelmine has also been edited by R. Rosenbaum (1894) . ”