Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at .1stWorldLibrary.ORG There is, strictly speaking, but little similarity between this sketchy trifle and the very celebrated and very beautiful "Moonstory" of Mr. Locke but as both have the character of hoaxes, (although one is in the tone of banter, the other of downright earnest) and as both hoaxes are on the same subject, the moon the author of "Hans Phaall" thinks it necessary to say, in selfdefence, that his own jeudesprit was published, in the Southern Literary Messenger, about three weeks previously to the appearance of Mr. Ls in the New York "Sun." Fancying a similarity which does not really exist, some of the New York papers copied "Hans Phaall," and collated it with the Hoax with the view of detecting the writer of the one in the writer of the other. By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected so entirely novel so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears. date), a vast crowd of people, for purposes not specifically mentioned, were assembled in the great square of the Exchange in the wellconditioned city of Rotterdam. The day was warm unusually...

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