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tion to let loose from their book-stall prisons all our 

 unread and forgotten poets and prosaists and transport 

 them to America after the manner of the English (at 

 one time) and their jail-birds. 



There has existed for some years a Privileged Ger- 

 man Society at Philadelphia Plan and Status of 

 which an Address before the Society by Joh. Christ. 

 Kunze, Professor of the Oriental and German Lan- 

 guages at the University of Philadelphia, and Mem- 

 ber of the said Society. Philadelphia. Printed by 

 M. Steiner. 1782. 8vo. pp. 62, sets forth. + 



Mr. Kunze, who plainly sees the lack of good Ger- 

 man schools (and the consequent decline of the lan- 

 guage), and feels as a patriot the necessity for better 

 instruction generally, proposed to establish such 

 schools * with a view mainly to the education of young 

 people of the three religions. His enthusiasm greatly 

 meriting approbation has thus far received little practi- 

 cal support. Meetings of this society are regularly 

 held; its objects are not merely scientific, but include 

 assistance to be rendered in-coming Germans who 

 finding no one to take them in and meeting with no 

 friends are often the victims of greed or other wicked- 

 ness the attention of the society is directed to every- 

 thing which may redound to the honor, good treatment, 

 and encouragement of the German nation. Since this 

 is a matter which cannot well be of indifference to 

 many of my readers, I can do no better than devote a 

 few pages of the Appendix to the statements of the 

 founder himself. f 



* With regard to his plans for a Latin school among the 

 Germans of Philadelphia, Vid. Schlozer's Brief weeks el. I, 

 4, 206. 



t A German Society at New York, + on the plan of the Pen- 



