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terize 'intelligent self-reliance ' as the genius of the English system, 

 ' organized instruction ' of the French, and ' skillful daring ' of the 

 American, that of the German is unquestionably exact discipline." 



Herr von Weber brings out many other features in illustration of 

 his theory, and, without assuming that he has made even an approach 

 to exhausting the subject, summarizes his conclusions in the remark 

 that " the railway system of every region having distinctly marked 

 geographical characteristics appears to be a product of its physical 

 structui-e, soil, and climate, just as its flora and fauna, except that 

 man has stepped in as an intervening agent between the natural con- 

 ditions and their product. At some future period, when railways shall 

 have spread over the whole earth, account will be taken in the par- 

 ticular adaptation of the new institutions of yet more widely differing 

 and more distinctly marked geographical conditions, and the forms 

 they assume will become so diversified that we shall be able to speak 

 of the " geography of railway-life as we now speak of the geography 

 of the animal- world and of the plant- world." — Translated for the 

 Popular Science Monthly from Das Ausland. 



THE LIFE-WOKK OF PASTEUE.* 



By his son-in-law. 



LOUIS PASTEUR passed his childhood in a small tannery which 

 his father had bought in the city of Arbois, in the department 

 of the Jura, to which he removed from the ancient city of Dole, in 

 the same department, where he was born. When Louis became of 

 suitable age, he was sent to the communal school, and was so proud 

 of the fact that, though he was the smallest of the pupils, he went 

 on the first day with his arms full of dictionaries away beyond his 

 years. He does not appear, as yet, to have been a particularly dili- 

 gent student. He was as likely to be found drawing a portrait 

 or a sketch — and the walls of several Arboisian houses bear testi- 

 monies of his skill in this art — as studying his lesson, and to go 

 a-hunting or a-fishing as to take the direct way to the school. Yet 

 the principal of the college was ready to predict that it was no small 

 school like this one, but some great royal institution, that was destined 

 to enjoy his services as a professor. As there was no Professor of 

 Philosophy in the college at Arbois, young Pasteur went to Besanyon 

 to continue his studies. Here, in the chemistry-class, he so vexed 

 Professor Darlay with his frequent and searching questions, that the 



* From a volume under this title, translated from the French by Lady Claude Hamil- 

 ton. In press of D. Appleton & Co. The present article is translated and abridged di- 

 rectly from the French bv W. H. Larrabee. 



