AMERICAN 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARS. 
[SECOND SERIES.] 
Art. L—Alexander von Humboldt, his early Life, his Education, 
his Writings, and his Books ; by HENRY STEVENS of Ver- 
mont, FSA. ete, 4 Trafalgar quare, London. 
Te higher the sun the shorter the shadow; even so the 
greater the eminence of a philosopher the briefer need be his eulo- 
F by the Sphlee Nevertheless so exceptional was 
in himself, his early training, his psionic ai . 
may not be deemed out of place here, though perhaps at th 
expense of wearying the unlearned who need not know a 
much, or worrying the learned who know it already, to recapit- 
ulate a few of the well known points in the life, education, and 
character of this illustrious man. 
If the indifferent reader will run his quick eye over the titles 
of the seventeen thousand volumes recorded in the Catalogue 
of his Library he will, no doubt, see at a glance that in very 
ey respects, it is the most extraordinary collection of modern 
" [The above article has has been ¢ —— to the Journal at 
Mr. of well known 
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bibliographical attainment who piveliauet the library of Hum- 
boldt, not long after , and who 
under the ay of Mr. Stevens. Ow- 
ing to a change in Mr. Stevens’s plan respecting its publication, 
some slight terations have been made in it, but not in any way 
to affect the comments upon Hombolat. —E | 
Am. Jour. — . Vou. XLIX, No. 145.—Jan., 1870. 
