Excerpt from Legends of Number Nip Grandison the Second, a parody on Richard son's celebrated novel, which, at the time of its first publication, was greatly admired by the Ger mans Physiognomical Travels - the work which first made its author famous, -and some other com positions, which were popular in their day. A sort of literary Dance of Death was his last pro duction. He was called the good Musaeus. To the epithet so bestowed few have had a better claim than Musaeus, says a writer in the English Encyclopaedia of Biography. A mild philosophy, of which his own life furnished a practical example, together with shrewd good sense and quiet humour, pervades all his writings. 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.