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competency, must be traced to some other source than the love of justice and candor. Their productions are commonly found, where Mr. Hviid’s work will never be seen,— on the counters of grocers, abiding their doom. The remarks on the countries Hviid passed are pertinent and correct; he never stooped to indulge in general reflections upon nations and societies, but judged of individuals from his own knowledge of them, and not from their profession and denomination. Thus his portrait of the amiable and unaffected Cardinal Megazzi, of Vienna, is drawn with the same good nature and address as his sketches of Pror fessor Heyne, of Goettingen, and the other characters he met with. Yet truth and jus­ tice never suffer under his hands. Having read the account of Dr. Dodd, and lamented his fate, he observed,—“ ’Tis singular to hang “ a teacher of morals -, the English, however, “ are just.” Hence it will be seen, he perceived that “ the real advantage of travel, as it regards “ the Sgavoir vivre, is by seeing a great deal