phraseology and orthography, chiefly derived from documents never yet made known, is my _pièce de résistance_; the sauce for it, in the Introduction, contains three chapters (The Picture, The Mirror, The Practical Reconstruction) for each section (Baptism, School, Constitution, Worship, Life). So far I had written everything in English, _tant bien que mal_, without hesitating a moment for thoughts or words. But here the Muse refused,—not a single idea would flow into my pen. After three days I discovered that the spirit _would_ and _could_ speak German. So I then hastily added the first half of the Introduction; and I hope that the first cast of the whole will be ready this week; and a week later Cottrell will have it for translation, whilst the text-book (about 140 pages) is being printed in slips. I am afraid the English edition will not appear before the end of March; of the second I have already received Volume II. I think you will approve of the offspring. May Apollo and the Muses enlighten people about Bernays. I might then hope that he would again come here to me in the summer. George has not yet announced his dissertation as “sent in to the faculty:” till then he is wisely silent. He appears to me to be too much there in the fashion and in society. May the devil carry off all fashionable women! John calls. God bless you. _Wednesday._—_Vivat Müller!_ I am just writing my congratulations to Bernays. _Vivat Dean!_ Pauli’s book appears in English without his doing anything to it. You may recommend in Oxford, even to the most refined ladies and most Christian evangelicals, “Spiritual Words” from Goethe, by Lancizolle, 120 pages, 12mo (3_s_. beautifully bound). That is a German Bible. You know Wackernagel’s “Anthology”? It is useful, but gives too much of second rate. I will make my daughters copy out Arndt’s German song for his eighty-third birthday for you. Adieu. [19.] _Saturday, March 13, 1852._ What in all the world is this undertaking to which Vaux asks my aid, the new edition of Herbelot’s “Bibliothéque Orientale”? It might be made a good work, although I hate the form, but _everything depends on the management_. It is otherwise a mere bookseller’s speculation or Jesuit’s trick. I have answered provisionally that in case biblical literature is to be taken up (which is highly necessary), Ewald, Freytag, Bernays, Rödiger, Hengstenberg, and Bernstein should be summoned to help. I don’t quite trust the thing; but if it is possible to introduce the people to good ideas, I am ready to aid. When are you coming? I have sent the last MS. to-day to the press, or rather to the translator. I have only now reached the point on which I can really speak in a practical tone. Volume III. will contain 600 pages. [20.] LONDON, _November 13, 1852._ Though late, I send you my hearty greetings on your return to England. I heard from Wilson that you were well, and that you had left your mother well for the winter.