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like that of lier mate. One female has been taken with both tusks de- 

 veloped, one being seven feet in length, the other five inches longer. 

 Like his fellow-gladiators of the sea, the narwhal will occasionally- 

 thrust his gigantic foil into the side of a ship, where it usually breaks 

 off, and, fitting the hole like a plug, seldom causes a leak. Narwhals 

 are generally seen in herds of fifteen or twenty ; they will come close 

 about a ship, apparently from curiosity, and it is one of the most enter- 

 taining sights of the northern seas to watch them plunging about, 

 spouting spray from their blow-holes, and clashing their long weap- 

 ons together as if fencing. 



STUDYING IN GERMANY. 



By HORACE M. KENNEDY. 



THE tangible influence of Continental Europe, and especially of 

 Germany, upon our thought and life, our education, habits, and 

 morals, is perhaps greater than we are wont to grant or appreciate. 

 This is in part due to the annual transfer of large sections of the Ger- 

 man population to our shores and their absorption into our social sys- 

 tem ; but it is owing still more to the migration of Americans to Ger- 

 many, where they come in contact with institutions that seem usually 

 to impress them favorably. We often find ourselves speaking, with 

 some chagrin at our own achievement, of German schools, of German 

 purity in municipal government, of German stability and efficiency in 

 the civil service, and of the self-respecting modesty of German boys 

 and girls. Besides the hosts of tourists who jostle each other on the 

 beaten courses of travel between the Rhine and Vienna, there is a 

 steadily growing class of Americans who visit Germany to spend from 

 one to five years in study. The American students at the great Ger- 

 man universities now outnumber those from any non-German nation 

 of Europe ; and their number is greater than that of all other non- 

 Continental states together. We may divide the American students in 

 Germany into two classes : 1. Boys and girls sent or accompanied 

 thither to get their preliminary education, and ranging in age from 

 twelve to twenty years. These should be subdivided into — first, spe- 

 cial students of music ; and, second, students of such branches as are 

 taught in our high-schools. 2. Young men, usually graduates of 

 college, who wish to push their studies in special departments. Among 

 the latter are often men who have already practiced their professions. 

 The second class chiefly contains students of philology, medicine, and 

 physics or chemistry. In any case this residence of several years in a 

 foreign country acts profoundly upon the character of the student, and 

 in ways quite outside of his book-knowledge. 



First, let us consider those who go to prepare for college, or for a pro- 



