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“ of men and manners; it teaches us mutual “ toleration, and mutual toleration teaches us “ mutual love.” He entertains, as it were, an instinctive in­ clination towards England, and several times bursts forth in raptures on thinking what awaits him there, when he shall again assemble with some literary friends, among whom was our ce­ lebrated Professor Winsloev, who set out with him from Copenhagen, but parted at Hamburg lor their ultimate destination, London. I am not certain whether he came to England; at least, there is no account of it in his work. Elis acquaintance with British authors, to judge from his book, was extensive. Of the poets, he preferred Pope, whose beautiful lines he quotes : Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie. This wish of his was not, however, ful­ filled. The record of his death in 178G, at the age of thirty-six, presents itself on a sim-