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Title: Letters of a Lunatic
A Brief Exposition of My University Life, During the Years 1853-54

Author: George J. Adler

Release Date: July 24, 2010 [EBook #33241]

Language: English

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LETTERS OF A LUNATIC,

OR

A BRIEF EXPOSITION OF MY UNIVERSITY LIFE,

DURING THE YEARS 1853-54.

BY

G. J. ADLER, A. M.,

PROFESSOR OF GERMAN LITERATURE IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF
NEW-YORK, MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL, AND OF THE AMERICAN
ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETIES, &C., &C.

Spectatum admissi risum teneatis, amici?
Horat. Ars Poet. v. 5.

[Greek: me ny toi ou chraisme skeptron kai stemma theoio]!
Iliad I. v. 28.

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
1854.

PREFATORY NOTE TO THE PUBLIC.

IN a recent publication on German Literature, I hinted to the reader my
design of giving an account of an event in my personal history, which I
alleged to be the cause of an absentment from my proper place of study,
and consequently of an injustice to my public. I now proceed to fulfil
my promise, by offering to my personal friends, and to such as are
interested in matters of academic education and morality, a few of the
many letters written by me during the past year. I might have added
others, both of an anterior and of a more recent date. The question
however was not to write a volume, but simply a brief exposition, of a
page or two from my life in connection with a public institution of the
metropo