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Krophi and 1'.Tophi on his map of Africa. He deferred, at once, to the competent authority. He consulted his able colleague Hermann on all points of political economy, and used his advice when he wrote about England. Having satisfied himself, he would not reopen these questions, when, after Hermann's death, he spent some time in the society of Roscher, a not less eminent economist, and of all men the one who most resembled himself in the historian's faculty of rethinking the thoughts' and realising the knowledge, the ignorance, the experience, the illusions of a given time. He had lived in many cities, and had kno\vn many important men; he had sat in three parliamentary assemblies, had dra\vn constitutional amendments, had been consulted upon the policy and the making of ministries, and had declined political office; but as an authority on recent history he was scarcely equal to him- self. Once it became his duty to sketch the character of a prince whom he had known. There was a report that this sovereign had only been dissuaded from changing his religion and abolishing the constitution by the advice of an archbishop and of a famous parliamentary jurist; and the point of the story was that the Protestant doctrinaire had prevented the change of religion, and the archbishop had preserved the constitution. It was too early to elucidate these court mysteries; instead of which there is a remarkable conversation about religion, wherein it is not always clear whether the prince is speaking, or the professor, or Schelling. Although he had been translated into several languages and was widely kno\vn in his own country, he had not yet built himself a European name. At Oxford, in 18 5 I, when James Mozley asked whom he would like to see, he said, the men \vho had \vritten in the Chrz"stian Re1JZel1t- brancer on Dante and Luther. Mozley \vas himself one of the two, and he introduced him to the other at Oriel. After thirty-two years, \vhen the \vriter on Dante occupied a high position in the Church and had narro\vly escaped the highest, that visit was returned. But he had no idea