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sents in acknowledgment, and 

 likewise to deliverother goods into 

 Hans's care, that he might remain 

 in the country as their factor and 

 interpreter. But he had ten bro- 

 thers on board, who could not 

 bear to part with him now that 

 they had recovered him. Ten of 

 the crew played their parts well ; 

 they insisted that Hans should re- 

 turn to his own country, that their 

 father might see his face before 

 he died. Nothing could have 

 been better contrived to effect his 

 deliverance, and leave his master 

 satisfied. The captain said he 

 wished Hans would remain in the 

 country, but these brethren of his 

 were many in number, and he was 

 but one. Hans himself said he 

 would willingly stay, but his bro- 

 thers would not let him. The 

 honest Tupinamba and his wife 

 wept over him, received a rich 

 present of combs, knives, and 

 looking-glasses, and departed per» 

 fiectly well contented. 



Beneficial Effects of Education 

 illustrated by Anecdotes of the 

 Duke of Burgundy. \_From 

 Bausset's Life ofFenelon, trans- 

 lated by Mr. Mudford. Vol. /.] 



Louis XIV. saw the period ap- 

 proaching when the education of 

 his grandson, the duke of Bur- 

 gundy, would require the cares of 

 a tutor. A prince, who had al- 

 ways connected his own grandeur 

 with the employment of men of 

 talents, and who iiad appointed 

 Montausier and Bossuet to be the 

 governor and tutor of his son, was 

 well qualified to make as good a 

 choice for his grandson. In seek- 

 ing a tutor for him he had only 



one wish to accomplish, which 

 was, to confide him to the care of 

 the most virtuous man in his 

 court ; and he had the good for- 

 tune to find a man, possessing 

 virtue and every other quality ne- 

 cessary to form a great prince. 

 This man was the duke de Beau- 

 vilHers. 



This was a choice which none 

 could condemn. The duke de 

 Beauvilliers was no less distin- 

 guished for the good qualities of 

 his heart and mind than for his 

 birth. He was originally intended 

 for the church. He had married 

 theseconddaughterofColbert;and 

 he had the rare felicity of finding, 

 in his wife, an entire conformity of 

 opinions and of taste relatively to 

 the discharge of the highest du- 

 ties of piety. In being appointed 

 by Louis XIV. to be the governor 

 of the duke of Burgundy, his 

 post became arduous and import- 

 ant. In fact, the duty of provid- 

 ing a good king for the French 

 nation devolved upon him. But 

 that modesty and simplicity which 

 were inherent in his character 

 rendered him diffident, rather than 

 ambitious, of an employment, the 

 difficulties and the dehcacy of 

 which he so accurately appre- 

 ciated. 



Louis XIV. when he fixed upon 

 the duke de Beauvilliers, wished 

 to add, to so strong a proof of his 

 confidence, every circumstance 

 which could at all tend to confer 

 upon it additional importance. 

 With the exception, therefore, of 

 the single place of valet-de-cham- 

 bre, which he reserved as a re- 

 compencefor the faithful services 

 of a domestic ( JMoreau), who had 

 attended the earliest infancy of 

 the young prince with an unusual 



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