to whom it was dedicated, granted a patent to John Bodley, the father of the founder of the Bodleian Library, for the exclusive right of printing it in English for the space of seven years. Its advantages were so many and great that it at once secured and--even after the appearance of King James’s Bible--continued to retain a firm hold upon the bulk of the English nation. While Switzerland can hardly be said to possess a truly national literature, it has always maintained a very good literature in German and in French; but these literatures are not the expression of a common national life. The Swiss have displayed remarkable powers in science, in political philosophy, in history, and in letters. Among the distinguished workers in these intellectual fields may be mentioned Lavater, whose eloquence, daring, and imagination as a physiognomist procured European celebrity; Pestalozzi, the originator of a system of education to which he devoted a life of splendid sacrifice; De Saussure, the indefatigable philosopher, the inventor of a thermometer for ascertaining the temperature of water at all depths, and the electrometer for showing the electrical condition of the atmosphere; Bonnet, the psychologist; Gesner, the poet, whose “Death of Abel” has been translated into many languages; Müller, a historian remarkable for his patience in research, picturesque writing, and disgust for traditionary tales, and who is reported to have read more books than any man in Europe, in proof of which they point to his fifty folio volumes of excerpts in the town library of Schaffhausen; Zwingli, the Canon of Zurich and the co-laborer of Calvin, a man of extensive learning, uncommon sagacity, and heroic courage; Mallet, the illustrious student of antiquities of Northern Europe; Constant, philosopher of the source, forms, and history of religion; Sismondi, a writer of history, literature, and political economy; Necker, brilliant in politics and finance, and his celebrated daughter, Madame de Staël; Rousseau, who fired all Europe with his zeal for the rights of the poor and the free development of individual character, and who wielded the most fertile and fascinating pen that ever was pointed in the cause of infidelity; D’Aubigné, the well-known historian of the Reformation; Agassiz, the greatest naturalist of his age, and Guyot, his compatriot and fellow-worker, to whom we owe the inception of that system of meteorological observations called the Signal Service; Haller, Horner, Dumont, and many others who won an honorable place in learning and literature. The remarkable resources of its modern schools and universities, and the zeal of the rising generation for learning, promise well for the intellectual future of Switzerland. To be quick in thought and quick in action; to have practical, scientific, and technical knowledge; to be capable of appreciating new facts, and of taking large views; to be patient and painstaking; to have the power of