on the Original Population of America. 3 
did at Paris, during the period when the allied armies were 
all in a tumult of politics, ceremonies, and parades, and he ap- 
peared daily in his Prussian Hussar uniform, with note-book 
in hand, at the lectures of Cuvier, the only military student, 
although at that time he had already accomplished his visit 
to South America, and was advantageously known for his 
scientific addenda to the zoology of that region. The thirst 
for extending his knowledge in natural history is still so 
ardent. that we believe, if the Prince were not withheld by a 
somewhat advanced life, he would, even now, quit his peace- 
ful study to undertake a scientific tour in Australia, reap a 
new harvest of facts and objects to deposit in his valuable 
zoological museum, or share them, with his usual liberality, 
with other collections of a similar nature, both public and 
private. 
The contents of the museum at Neuwied are always acces- 
sible to the scientific, and even to the merely curious travel- 
ler ; and the liberality which is ever ready to communicate 
information on the natural sciences, is only equalled by the 
unostentatious urbanity of the giver, and the interest he 
takes in the pursuits of his fellow-labourers in the same re- 
searches. But the quality of a book, it may be said, should 
not be estimated by the private worth of the author; and 
being destitute of the marvellous, or the piquancy of social 
comparisons, can excite but small interest with the generality 
of readers; and it may be asked, what is its prominent cha- 
racter ? To this this we may reply, in a single word, namely, 
truth! NVeracity unembellished by more colouring than what 
is necessary for the acquisition of a clear perception of the 
matter, is the pervading aim of every sentence. It is the 
spell that binds the author’s observations on the general 
character of the social condition of man in the United States : 
he sees dispassionately from an elevated point of view, mark- 
ing “ the great result of unchecked industry, and a vigorous 
system of commerce, as the causes of that giant progress 
everywhere observable ; exciting the astonishment of a tra- 
veller from Europe, when he meets at every step new 
and extensive cities, with numerous public buildings, and 
great institutions of all kinds. They rise up so rapidly, that 
