The Secrets of Our National Literature
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Excerpt from The Secrets of Our National Literature: Chapters in the History of the Anonymous, and Pseudonymous Writings of Our Countrymen If it has been the aim of many writers almost from the origin of printing to conceal from the knowledge of the world the authorship of the publications of which they were guilty, many a literary student has felt even a greater desire to lift the veil which concealed the mystery and to expose it to the full light of day. The pleasure of finding out the secrets of our neighbours appeals to most minds. This may be bad manners, as Bernard Mandeville asserted in his anonymous Letter to Dion (1732). It may be "a Rudeness almost equal to that of pulling off a Woman´s Mask against her Will," as he passionately exclaimed, but the wish is both widespread and deep. To effect this purpose no toil has been too great, no research too protracted. Much has been revealed by their labours, but in spite of all their zeal much more remains concealed. In this section of bibliography the English student was content to lag behind in the race for many a generation, and even now his duty has been but imperfectly accomplished. The first treatise on the subject was by Fridericus Geisler, a native of Silesia, whose disputation with Daniel Schrock, "de nominum mutatione et anonymis scriptoribus" was delivered "in auditorio Petrino" in the university of Leipsic, April, 1669, and published in that year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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