Tiger Books

original cloth, spine bumped and a trifle sunned with nick at head, good. authorised translation from the sixteenth German edition; a study of the scholarly side of German life, the experiences of a professor at Leipzig University in his search for the lost books of Tacitus, and the inner life of the University. The professor does not find the ms but he wins an adorable maiden. Later, however, he becomes so absorbed in his work that he neglects his wife, who is embarrassed by the attentions of a libertine prince; first published in three volumes 1865; 544 pages;