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PRoF. GoURAUp AND HIS AssA!LASrs--ii orr
readers should be weary OF the controversies with
which Prof. Gourauds name has been connected,
they viii DO him but Justice TO remember TINT these
are Lot at all of his seeking. He has rot intcrered
w:lh any othcr mans business; bul, having 10y MS
own intellect and energy attracted pubic attention
to the science Of Memory he was tercely aS5aiied
by q swarm ofplagiarists and imitatoIs who seemed
resolved ~ once TO plumber a:!d deiame him. No one
Of them could ever have drawn an audience on this
subject but FOR his abors and success-prUbably DO
two OF them would have ever thought OF so doing.
But the moment they had attained a smatierns Of
his system, they setio work TO convert II TO their
own pecunary benefit regardless OF his interests or
their solemn obligations and TO cover their owndc.
predations by accusing him oil plagiarism We
refer our readers TO u subsequent column in which
,hev will find This charge OF plagiarism thoroughly
handled by a number OF gentlemen Of this Ciy
whose names are not unknown TO the public. We
trust those who have taken any interest in the mat
ter Will read the article we refer TO, aud Judge
whether Prof. 6. is not just as little piagiarst as
johnson or Webster was in compiling his Die
ionary Most certainly, il there are any who urrer
stood him as claiming have had p.e !ecessors in
the teaching OF llncmonics, they cannot nave been
among the hearers fhis Lectures.


The sagacity evinced by some journals in their
comments on this matter is amazing, anus
ing, as you please. Thus, the brooklyn Daily
remarks that it all along suspected the whole
thing was humbug, and now it is proved! How
the fact that it is disputed whether Prot. Gou-
raud did or did no; sufficiently acknowledge his OBJ
legations to his predecessors in the same track,
proves the whole science ahumbug, we do not quite
understand