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statesmen (are there any beside H. v. Gagern?) will 

 then find out, that there is in Central Europe the 

 France of 1789, which people, ever since last year, have 

 railed at as a nonentity. The centres of gravitation 

 are shifting. 



With sincerest friendship, 



Yours, 

 Sunday. A. HT. 



CXLII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VARNHAGEN. 



Berlin, 19 th March, 1850. 



My best thanks, dear friend, for the kind letter you 

 have given to M. Kio,* who had been praised to me 

 before by Cornelius, Olfers, Eadowitz,t and the King 

 himself, for his book, " De TArt Chretien/' The new 

 incarnation of an envoy to the Erfurt Parliament, 

 and the surveillance of the latter in the interest of 

 the Prince-President, has rather surprised me but 

 Eaffaelle himself had several styles. 



With sincerest friendship, and in anxious expectation, 



Yours, 



Tuesday. A. V. HUMBOLDT. 



* M. Rio, to whom allusion is here made, and. who was sent as correspon- 

 dent for the Prince-President's Government to Erfurt, is by profession an 

 artist, and not a diplomatist. TR. 



f Cornelius, the celebrated painter ; Dr. von Olfers, Director- General of 

 the Royal Museums ; General von Radowitz, the well-known friend and 

 adviser of Friedrich Willhelm IV. Tu. 



