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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 107 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_116.jpg |
| Transcript | Kaspar II We began by hinting that the atmosphere of Nuremberg is mediaeval, that of a city of legend. We will close this account of her history with the brief narration of her last, her nineteenth century or we can not pass on lence the curious case of Kaspar Hauser. At a time when Europe was still dripping from the douche of sentimentality in which it had been bathed by the sorrows of Werther and the romanticism of Byron, Kaspar Hauser appeared suddenly in Nuremberg. His astonish fa I European ce- e historv of this impostor has recently been placed once more before the public by the Duchess of Cleveland,1 with the object of clearing her father from imputations which would have been ridiculous if they had not been so impudent. Charity, and the facts of the case, enable us to add with regard to Kaspar himself, that if he was an impostor he was also half a lunatic ; for we can trace in the records of his career, among other of a diseased brain, the mania of persecution, an over acute and perverted sense of smell, a restless love of notorietv, and an ineradicable habit of lying. On Easter Monday, M .a lad of 1 like a count: neared outsid< Thor, and asked, in tl n dialect, his a the Neue Thor Strasse. He had with him two letters in on t ad- 1 to " The Captain of squadron of the Schmolisehti R Mrasse, Nurem berg/1 The] ran as follows, in handwriting exactly similar to : — "Honourhi Sir, — I send vou a lad es to serve his King truly; this lad was brought to me on Oct. -. labourer, with ten i.iemilUn. 1893. 107 |