John Bull the past Navy blue, but more recently with the Union Jack colours). Britannia, or a lion, is sometimes used as an alternative in some editorial cartoons. As a literary figure, John Bull is well-intentioned, frustrated, full of common sense, and entirely of native country stock. Unlike Uncle Sam later, he is not a figure of authority but rather a yeoman who prefers his small beer and domestic peace, possessed of neither patriarchal power nor heroic defiance. John Arbuthnot provided him with a sister named Peg (Scotland), and a traditional adversary in Louis Baboon (the House of Bourbon in France). Peg
Great Gospel of John and "Neu-Salems-Verlag". Currently it is published by the "Lorber-Verlag", a dedicated publisher based in Bietigheim-Bissingen, Germany. Engel's addendum was published by C. F. Landbeck and "Lorber Verlag" as volume 11. The 1st edition dates to 1871; the 8th edition to 1996. An abbreviated English translation in six volumes has appeared with "Merkur Publishing". Since 2011 a full translation (10 volumes) of the "Great Gospel of John", called "John the Great Gospel", is available from CreateSpace, Amazon.com. E. F. Schumacher wrote about the ten big books of the Great Gospel: "(They) contain many strange things which are unacceptable to the modern