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Kaspar Hauser. 
“ Kaspar Hauser, eine neugeschichtliche Legende.” It was pub- 
lished in Wiesbaden, and written by Antonius von der Linde. 
The title is significant of the tone of the contents. The author 
calls Kaspar Hauser a swindler, the persons who believed in him 
fools and liars, and the records concerning him a mass of super- 
stitious nonsense. The headings of several chapters give an 
idea of the animus of the work. “Das Wunderkind Kaspar. 
Baron Kaspar. Kaspar, Ungarischer Magnat. Kaspar, Freiherr 
von Guttenberg. Kaspar’s Selbstverwundung. Kaspar von 
Wessening und Sir Kaspar Hauser. Prinz Kaspar. Am Ster- 
belager zweier Prinzen. Ein Kaspar Hauser Komplott. Die 
Kaspar Hauser Mythus.” That the author is totally unqualified 
by conceit and prejudice to write history, is shown by the follow- 
ing extract : 
“ The mass of absurdities which constitute the Kaspar Hauser 
literature is an Augean stall which I have no desire to cleanse. It 
is made up, firstly, out of the exaggerated stories told by the firm 
of Binder, Daumer, and Tucher, supported by medical humbug 
and all sorts of fantastic hypotheses; secondly, out of Feuerbach’s 
romance, with its false conception of Kaspar Hauser, and its hint 
of his royal ancestry ; thirdly, out of the consequent attack upon 
the House of Baden : and fourthly, out of pure inventions.” 
By way of making the subject ridiculous, the author has arranged 
the principal events of Kaspar Hauser’s life in chronological order. 
The following specimens are sufficient : 
“In the course of this month Kaspar became the subject of 
general interest in Nuremberg, and thenceforth all proner control 
was at an end.” 
“In the last week Daumer and Von Tucher made a pilgrimage 
to Hiltel's Kaspar Chapel in the Vestner Tower. Also, four 
Lutheran clergymen are said to have undertaken the same pious 
pilgrimage.”