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« Kaspar, in his miraculous chapel, hears the first thunder.” 
« He buys sugar, cuts a gash in his forehead, does not call for 
help ; the atfentat is a great success.” 
« Kaspar takes advantage of Hickel’s absence, makes pasteboard 
boxes at Pastor Fuhrmann’s house, tells lies, goes to the park and 
returns wounded ; after this second attack upon himself he avoids 
calling for help, just as he did in Nuremberg; he makes no in- 
quiry about the purse (supposed to have been dropped by the 
¢murderer’), for THE CONTENTS ARE ALREADY KNOWN TO HIM.” 
Von der Linde’s book is full of all sorts of trash, besides what 
hears upon the story. The work is valuable only because almost 
everything connected with the subject is mentioned. The method 
of treatment is extremely unfair. Information from all sources is 
indeed presented ; but whatever appears to favour the Baden 
theory is denied and ridiculed, while all charges of imposture and 
deceit against Kaspar Hauser are dwelt upon and amplified. 
The tone is low, coarse, and trivial. Thus, in discussing Von 
Tucher’s article in the AZllvemeine Zeitung, the author says: 
“So ligt Von Tucher jetzt Kaspar’s Liigen hinweg.’— In 
‘his manner Von Tucher lies away Kaspar’s lies.” 
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Von der Linde, to judge from his name, belongs to the German 
nobility, and to judge from his language, his chief grievance #7 7¢ 
Kaspar Hauser is that the youth should have been thrust by 
public opinion into a rank to which he did not belong. 
The author has no pity for Kaspar's early sufferings and later 
unhappiness ; but that he should have been thought a prince 
when he was only a peasant is an insult to the privileged classes 
which cannot be too scornfully resented. 
Von der Linde declares (in large print): 
“ Kacepar HAUSER WAR DIE VERKORPERUNG EINES UNBERECH-