VI PREFACE. 



ohllgations in this Biography. Of the Biography itself 

 it does not become the author to speak., further than to say 

 that he has taJcen great pains to make it accurate. If it 

 shall be considered as readable as it is accurate, he will 

 have accomplished his purpose., lohich was to write a popM- 

 lar life of Humboldt. 



