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your hands ! To-day I recommend you an able French- 

 man, M. Galuski, who knows Germany better than we 

 do, the author of an essay on A. W. Schlegel. He 

 will stay but a few days. Preserve the autograph of 

 Barante.* 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



SATURDAY. 



ise. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, December 6th, 1846. 



THERE will be perhaps some delay, my dear friend, in 

 your receiving the u Cinq jours de Berlin," in which I 

 am spoken of by the Berliners (who are introduced as 

 speaking themselves), as a tolerably pleasant tattler, but 

 in which I am alluded to rather unkindly, as to my 

 moral character. If all my speeches lack consistency, 

 I apprehend for the durability of the system of the 

 world, the Kosmos. Mr. Barriere will probably have 

 called on you the sixth day, and you will have suggested 

 all that to him. The paper contains some excellent 

 things, Cracoviana, about the vote of Prussia and Mr. 

 de Kanitz. 



* Barante introduced M. Galuski to Humboldt. 



