Produced by Charlene Taylor,Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) _SOLOMON MAIMON._ SOLOMON MAIMON: _AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY._ TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN, WITH ADDITIONS AND NOTES, BY J. CLARK MURRAY, LL.D., F.R.S.C., _Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, M'Gill College, Montreal_. /$ ALEXANDER GARDNER, PAISLEY; AND 12 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. DAWSON BROTHERS, MONTREAL; CUPPLES AND HURD, BOSTON. 1888. $/ CONTENTS. /$ PAGE TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE, ix. INTRODUCTION.--State of Poland in last century, 1 CHAPTER-- I.--My Grandfather's Housekeeping, 6 II.--First Reminiscences of Youth, 19 III.--Private Education and Independent Study, 22 IV.--Jewish Schools--The Joy of being released from them causes a Stiff Foot, 32 V.--My Family is driven into Misery, and an old Servant loses by his great Faithfulness a Christian Burial, 38 VI.--New Abode, New Misery--The Talmudist, 42 VII.--Joy endureth but a little while, 49 VIII.--The Pupil knows more than the Teacher--A theft _à la Rousseau_, which is discovered--"The ungodly provideth, and the righteous putteth it on," 54 IX.--Love Affairs and Matrimonial Proposals--The Song of Solomon may be used in the service of Matchmaking--A new _Modus Lucrandi_--Smallpox, 59 X.--I become an object of Contention, get two Wives at once, and am kidnapped at last, 65 XI.--My Marriage in my eleventh Year makes me the Slave of my Wife, and procures for me Cudgellings from my Mother-in-Law--A Ghost of Flesh and Blood, 74 XII.--The Secrets of the Marriage State--Prince Radzivil, or what is not all allowed in Poland? 79 XIII.--Endeavour after mental Culture amid ceaseless Struggles with Misery of every Kind, 89 XIV.--I study the Cabbalah, and become at last a Physician, 94 XV.--A brief Exposition of the Jewish Religion from its Origin down to the most recent Times, 111 XVI.--Jewish Piety and Penances, 132 XVII.--Friendship and Enthusiasm, 138 XVIII.--The Life of a Family Tutor, 145