, 1870-10-02

RAnlmnuAzaF. the Literary E0fEcrs
PsAlm.n.zar died IN 1868, some ysazs be-
fore Chatterton. In come respects he Was
ycs more remsrkahle: with less genius doubt
tude, be displayed fertility OF invention
hardly TO be surpassed. PsslmanazaE, to
speak correctly, wne not fabricaiot Of auto
graphs he VAS more and less than that-tha
Inventor OF = language. or chiroGraphy-
Nhss DO ! say a.of nation. But h,s LIE vas
1t il all ronacce. This ROMANCE he has
written; We possess his autobiography, set
we do not know hid name! Out Of regard
for his family be has sought to eoncea! il, and
he has carried his secret With him. We shall
never know who he was, OF even whence be
Eorn In the south Of France, in Lam
guedoe or Provence. His family wss roor,
Lis father established ut distance. in
Germs.y. GeosEe had been brought up
With siss Jcr.sts, then with ths Donrsc ana
having finished hi= theological cou1se, he was
| received Us precektor IN several fsmil!es.
hut lie had indnlent aud adventurous tastes.
| H. was uot slow 70 adopt the role Of religious
impceter, no doubt in order to profit BY MS
theological studies- We tind him corToWing,
Rome !; repairing 70 Germany; playing the
not, sometimea Of an Iri.h student,
or, again, of . pilgrim. He ran many
| FlAHE. CRlue uEAE beluE eH0t ID 4 spy, 1911 tDtQ
The depths OF ni=ery, and beheld Limscls COW
cred with sores and yeE1nin. From adventure
to adventure, from knAvery to knsycry,
George arrived at the grand fraud Of his liia.
Finding himself in Protestant COUNTY, he
could renain neither pilgrim nor Catholic; he
gave himself out ns Japanese from tho island
Of Forusosa, taken to Europe, lie eaia. Ly
Dutch merchants. Fozmo.s was very little
known; the young imroster recalled, 81 well
as possible, such accounts OF Japsn ID ho bad
beard among the Jcsuits; then, upon this
sleht canvas, he began 70 ernbreiacra wholt
world OF fancy. Ho fabricated Aso-called lam
grAge Of Formosa, an alphabet for writing it
I GRAMMAR to explain the ruleH. Ue made 1
new d,vieion OF the year into twenty months
He iEycntcd Eeu religion, with 5 book ol
lrsyere, and be went 70 fas asato worship th'
rising and setting snn, With ali eorts OF form,
and mu1nmeries. Finally, he accustomed Inn
self to eat raw meat. Tie idea OF doubhu{
the vefacity Of man who ate raw meat, an,
who wrote tiuertly in characters which no OH
knew! Meanwhile Phalnanaxsr (sucA va
anese, and which he retained to the end o
bis 1ife) ibid net another rogue, who con
ceiTed the plan Of prodtins GF lin. THIS per
son, named Innes, was chaplain Of a Scotcl
regiment tllen in gsrrikonat Sluis, in Holland
It vas here TINT psalmanazar made his &c
qns1nsancr. and that they became intimate
It il probaife that Innes At first 1lah bee'
himself deceived by the false Japanese, ant
i, is Certain that he soon di-covered the fraua
howcvet, he did not abandon his de.igns q
that account. Tunes took up rsalm Auazar
: taught Lin English, carried lin to England
; ilxed Lin with much ceten1s nr, md, altogeth
cr, managed so u ucll that he ended By obtain
| | ing from the bishop, a. reward for service
rendered to religion, living in the county o
Essex. Tsslm1uazar. under such patronage
could not fail to Develop hia happy gifts an
EpA f{sh has tn, fr1f
. late tho English catechistn into the Fo1uoe
! Ian language, md had the pleasure OF beh lid
! | ing the 1h. hep Of London accorl . graciou
rcct Ftjon to this work. Il was submit ed +
sardus Nllo saw IN It nothing out OF the was
10 whom could It occur to suspect youn
> man Of twenty Of 60 colossal an imuoa.uro
; Not tbst there were not hero snd there, veal
: points IN the system Of tho Fo1mlai1u. It /
! impoesil'le to be forewArnea Of eyeEy thing
be lad forgotten to give nanlas to the letter
: latTasement. He lad believed that tho Jar
!; anese wrote from right to left, like other O1
. ieptal nations, which furnished another argr
: ment aea,nst him. BE had asserted. rsthe
cataleeE1y, that the inha.itaa,ss Of Fornlo-
> sacrafced eighteen thousand ma!o infanI
every year; and When 1t wA teptaaentea I
: him that, ut this rate, the islaud would Ion
! before have been dcpopnlated, ho had no otl
= e1 answer than an obstinate perseverance,
4 his declaration: he bad early formed the re
n olution mover to retrsct, Psalmanazar, hov
ever, understood what lie owed to tie publ
= aad l.e crowned all his frnuls bv new az
= gigantic ouo, IAN Historical n, d Geo graphic
= Description Of the leland OF For,nosa. with a
:, Explanation Of the Religion, Customs ar
+ Manners Of the Inhabitants, Dy Geort
!. rsslmanasar, NatiTe Of thst Ialsnd.@ II
!, work appeared at London, in the English Ia
- - guage, III 1704, and was soon Translated in
~ ~ French and Gtrman. In French it passi
= through three or four editions, It vss alor
y y ed By the famous a1phatct.a map Of tho islam
Plates 5eprs1sien,ng rnaie; Of is Tie eoun.1
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