The New International Encyclopædia/Reisebilder

REISEBILDER, rï'ze-bil'der (Ger., pictures of travel). A work by Heinrich Heine in four volumes (1826-31), in which poetie descriptions of nature and powerful delineations of character are mingled with scoffs at the institutions of the age, political, religious, and social. The wit and irreverence of these attacks, which respected nothing, together with the real beauties of the work, won for it an immediate success and brought the author into popular favor. Some of the poems interspersed through the work were published later with others under the title of Buch der Lieder.