At Easter, 1829, Lepsius, then seventeen years old, passed the final examination with the general certificate I., and left the school with a body invigorated by the merry games of boyhood on the gymnastic-ground and skating-pond and in the swimming-school, with a mind well prepared for every study, and a thorough mastery of the old classical languages. How dear the school had been to him is shown by the following verses, taken from the farewell poem which he dedicated to it: “A thousand times I’ve wandered High on the mount above, And gazed with quiet rapture On the valley that I love. “Beyond, the silver river! And above, the shining skies! While, beneath the mountain’s shadow, What a happy dwelling lies! “The gray walls seem to beckon, They summon me to go, And join the throng that gathers In the garden there below. “There many a youthful figure Weaves the merry game, I wis, But whence, ah whence, arises In my heart, this pensive bliss?” His father who, as president of the provincial court and commissioner for the examinations previous to matriculation, was a person of influence with the directors of the school, had desired that in the final scrutiny the performances of his son should be no more indulgently judged than those of every other alumnus. After Richard had been honored with the I., Ilgen wrote to his father in the following reassuring manner, having first announced the results of the examination: “You must on no account imagine that you are under obligations to any one. I assure you for my part that I would have done as I have, even if you were my worst enemy, and that I have only acted according to my conscience, as you may hear from Neue and Jacobi.” It need not be said that young Lepsius was among the most prominent pupils of the institution. On the king’s birthday, on the third of August, 1826, the task of composing and delivering a poem in honor of the festival was imposed upon him. He chose for his subject “Albert of Babenberge,” and handled it, skilfully enough, in the Nibelungen stanza. He derived great pleasure, in after days, from poetical composition, and although he ardently devoted himself to science from the very first, yet among the poems lying before us many a gay song bears witness to the vivacity of his youthful spirit. LEIPSIC.