Abstract

The Soul of Flanders

This article presents information on the book "The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel," by Charles de Coster, translated from the French by Geoffrey Whitworth. Soon at Versailles, the age-old Flemish question will come up for final settlement. Endless books and endless pamphlets and endless articles will be written to prove one point of view and to disprove another contention. The answer to the Flemish puzzle is to be found in the pages of this Flemish Bible. For peace conferences come, and peace conferences go, the map of Europe is shaped one way at one time and the next year is arranged along different lines, but the invisible spirit of Tyl Ulenspiegel stays with his people for ever. During the many years of slavery he has become their patron Saint.