The Layman's Breviary

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Excerpt from The Layman's Breviary: Or Meditations for Every Day in the Year Gottlieb Leopold Immanuel Schefer, the son of a physician, was born at Muskau, in Germany, in 1784, and at an early age, by his musical and poetic talents, attracted the notice of the celebrated Prince Pückler-Muskau, to whom, in 1813, he became private Secretary, and with whom he travelled through Italy and the Greek Islands, and acquired the stimulus, the subjects, and the plans for many of his voluminous works of fiction in prose and verse. From 1825 to 1829 he published five volumes of "novels", from 1831 to 1835, four more, and five volumes of "little romances" from 1837 to 1839. "The Layman's Breviary" appeared in 1834, and the "World-Priest" in 1846. His novels number in all seventy-three. A great portion of them turn upon Oriental legends and musical experiences. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.