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dignement representee par un ami de la liberte et 

 des progres de Pintelligence." The biography has 

 some wonderfully romantic scenes in it one, where, 

 cold and hunger having driven them frenzied and half 

 mad, they sing and pray, and Fremont exacts an 

 oath from them, not to murder and devour one 

 another. When I shall have satisfied my curiosity, 

 I will send you the book. For the present, here is 

 a miracle which a Military Chaplain in Magdeburg 

 has wrought upon Assemann in Quedlinburg. I 

 have cleared the matter up on natural principles. 

 You will find it on page 34. Gratefully yours, 



A. VON HUMBOLDT. 



Note ly Varnhagen. The water-colour drawings of Hildebrandt, 

 among them the Humboldt one, were exhibited in the Art Union at 

 five groschen a-head, for the benefit of the poor. 



"Self-murder; a Folly and a Crime." Two Sermons. By Dr. 

 Friedrich Crusius, Military Chaplain, Magdeburg. 1855. 8vo. 

 Besides this miracle (long-harboured thoughts of suicide, suddenly 

 deserting a conscience-stricken mind at the invocation of the name of 

 Jesus), the work is curious for an allusion it contains to Schleiermacher. 

 At page 34 we read, "Is it not related of a learned Divine that upon 

 one occasion he had a very great temptation to commit suicide? 

 Such is the influence that mental and bodily sufferings can exercise 

 even upon right-minded and God-fearing men." 



CXCIII. 



HUMBOLDT TO VAENHAGEN. 



Berlin, 17 th December, 1856. 



Another grateful, very simple, and amiable letter 

 from the Grand Duke. He desires the visit to take 

 place in February, and wishes that the drama may 

 begin with a request to search in the Records. 



