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336 realize the number and importance of their common interests. It ought to be added that the stricter Lutherans still continue to hold aloof from it.

1em  GÜSTROW, the chief town of the Wendian circle of the grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Northern Germany, is situated on the Nebel and on the railway from Liibeck to Stettin, 20 miles south of Rostock. The principal build ings are the castle, erected in the middle of the IGth cen tury, now used as a workhouse ; the cathedral, dating from the 13th century, and lately renovated, containing many tins monuments and possessing a square tower 100 feet high; the town-hall, dating from the ; the court-houses, the music hall, and the theatre. Among the educational establishments are the due il gymnasium, which possesses a library of 15,000 volumes, the town real-school, the city school, the trade school, and four female schools. The town is one of the mist prosperous in the dukedom, and has breweries, foundries, tanneries, sawmills, brandy distilleries, and manufactories of tobacco, glue, candles, and soap. There is also a considerable trade in wool, corn, wood, butter, and cattle, and an annual cattle show and horse races are held. Population (1875), 10,923.

1em  GUTENBERG,, was born about at Mainz of 7ioble parents, his father being Frielo zum Gansfleisch, and his mother, whose name he adopted, Else zu Gudenberg. In the citizens of Mainz drove the patricians out of the city, and as Gutenberg s name appears about at Strasburg the family probably took refuge there. When the exp3lled families were recalled to Mainz, Gutenberg did not avail himself of the privilege. We next hear of him at Strasburg, where in he seized and imprisoned the town clerk of Mainz for a debt due by the corporation of that city, releasing him, however, at the urgent representations of the mayor and counsellors of Strasburg. In Gutenberg was sued before the ecclesi astical court by Emmeline zu Iserne-Thiire for breach of promise of marriage, the case being settled by his making her his wife. The active mind of Gutenberg had adopted several plans for miking money before he invented the art of printing with movable types, which is his great claim upon the gratitude of mankind. Before he engaged in some experiments requiring money, when Andrew Dritzehn, a fellow-citizen, became security for him ; and the same year a partnership between them was arranged to carry out Gutenberg s new plan for polishing stones. Next came an improvement in the manufacture of looking-glasses, for which money was lent by other two friends. For these a lucrative sale was expected at the approaching pilgrimage to Aix-la-Chapelle, which, however, was unfortunately postponed. In was arranged a partnership between Gutenberg, Andrew Dritzehn, Andrew Ileilmann, and Anton Heilmann, and that this concerned the new art of printing appears from the long law proceedings which soon after followed. The action was brought by the brothers of Dritzehn, who was dead, to force Gutenberg to reveal the secrets of the partnership. The decision was in favour of Gutenberg. In January Gutenberg obtained 80 livres by mortgaging some house property, and again in he borrowed money of Martin Brether for carrying on his experiments. For four years after this nothing is known of Gutenberg except that his wife paid taxes iu his name. He now returned to his native city, Mainz, where he borrowed 100 guilders of his kinsman Arnold Gelthus, and established himself in the house Zum Jungen, which was part of the family possessions. At this time Gutenberg must have been able to show some solid and convincing results of his new invention, for he obtained substantial aid from a shrewd goldsmith, John Fust or Faust, who advanced 800 guilders to promote the work, taking as security a mortgage on all the printing materials to be purchased. Gutenberg at once set to work upon a large folio Latin Bible, the printing of which was ended before August. During the progress of this great undertaking several forms of indulgence and other small things were printed, the earliest with a date being the Indulgence of in the library at Althorp. But the new art was certainly not a success commercially, and again Fust had to come forward with another 800 guilders to prevent a collapse. In November Fust determined to dissolve his connexion with Gutenberg, and demanded pay ment of his advances. Gutenberg not being able to refund so large a sum, Fust took legal proceedings against him, and he was eventually compelled to yield up the whole of the printing materials, which at once were removed by Fust to his own house at Mainz. Here with the assistance of Peter Schoffer he continued to print until the sack of the city in by Adolphus II. Gutenberg, now in the evening of life, had to make a fresh start in the world, and fortun ately in Dr Humery of Mainz found a friend who assisted him with capital. Embarrassment, however, still pursued him, and the press made slow progress. It is uncertain whether the new press of Gutenberg was in Mainz or at the neighbouring town of Eltvill. On January 17, , Gutenberg accepted the post, at the court of Archbishop Adolphus, of salaried courtier. He received annually a suit of livery together ith a fixed allowance of corn and wine. Meantime the printing materials were lent to the brothers Bechtermunze, who printed some inconsiderable works, and upon the death of Gutenberg were claimed and taken by Dr Humery. On February 2,, died Gutenberg, poor, childless, and almost friendless, after laying the foundations of an art which was soon to dominate the world. Arnold Gelthus erected a monument to his memory near his grave, and forty years afterwards Ivo Wittig set up a memorial tablet at the legal college in Mainz.

1em  GUTHRIE, (1803–1873), Scottish clergyman and philanthropist, was born at Brechin, Forfarshire, on July 12, 1803. He entered the university of Edinburgh at the early age of twelve (November 1815), and continued to attend classes there for more than ten years. During that period he seems to have read widely in general litera ture, although he did not distinguish himself as a student in the strict sense. On the 2d of February 1825 the presbytery of Brechin licensed him as a preacher in con nexion with the Church of Scotland; but it was not till 1830 that he was inducted to his first charge, Arbirlot, in Forfar shire, where he laboured for seven years. In 1837 he became the colleague of the Rev. John Sym in the pastorate of Old Greyfriars, Edinburgh, and at once attracted notice as a great pulpit orator. Towards the close of 1840 Guthrie was chosen minister of St John s Church, Victoria Street, Edinburgh. His increasing popularity brought him flattering invitations both from London and from India; but these he firmly declined. He was an en thusiastic supporter of the movement which led to the Disruption of 1843; and his name is thenceforth asso ciated with the Free Church. In 1847 he began the 