394 Humboldt's Letters. 



ssi. 



HUMBOLDT TO YARNHAGEN. 



BERLIN, March 1th, 1858. 



I PRESUME that yon, dear friend, have not seen the 

 indiscreet, almost talentless, book of ISTormanby. I shall 

 not return it to Lady Bloorafield without offering it to 

 you. Skip over it according to the index, and send it 

 kindly back to me in four or five days. It depicts a 

 badly played comedy. 



My reverence to your amiable niece. Your most 

 attached 



A. v. HUMBOLDT. 



SUNDAY NIGHT. 



" A Year of Revolution. From a journal kept in Paris 

 in 1848. By the Marquis of ISTormanby, K.G. London, 

 1857. 2 vols. in 8vo." 



Varnhagen remarks in his diary, under March 8th, 

 1858: "Humboldt sends me, with kind lines, the book 

 of the Marquis of Normanby on the revolution of 1848. 

 He calls it an indiscreet book, and almost talentless. I 

 call it stupid, and perfidious in its contents; it shows 



