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nius which led him to superior honors. He courted the sciences, and when study had per­ fected the gifts of nature, and the efforts of his poetical genius * had rendered his name public, he accepted this situation. No higher eulogy can be passed on this man, so truly noble, than the following expression of an author, whose name has escaped my memory : “ Mr. “ Guldbcrg, whose birth entitled him to play “ at cards at court, now sits down quietly on <( Blaaegaard,f teaching peasant boys to read “ and write.” Not far from the high road, on the banks of a lake, are the remains of the village of Emdrup, now reduced to two farms, the other peasants having moved to the fields assigned them. When I speak of this village, it recalls the enjoyment of my boyish days; hard by lives a peasant, on whose farm I was accustomed, when at school, eagerly to devote all my lioly- * Independent of several dramatic pieces, Mr. Guldberg has written a Poem in Iambics, called, “ The Assistance Church •“ Yard. f The house where the seminary is kept.