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University, closed by denying all desire to in-
jure it and as a proof of his sincerity frankly
said" the whole object of my life.
my final
aim, sir-is to succeed you in your chair." Dr.
Physick started to his feet, and holding out both
hands said,-" Nothing can prevent your suc-
cess!"

Some years afterward we met him in New
York where he had just accepted the Professor-
ship of Surgery-and asked if he had given
up his former goal. "Never," he said, "this
is a stepping stone.

The first article of 1870, University Education in Germany, was recommended to us by -(we may say to avoid personality)—an But it was not to be. In a few months his American University. It will probably attract health gave way- and after a voyage in vain the attention of every learned or scientific body hope, he returned to the neighborhood of Philain this country. One part of the German sys-delphia, to die. - the Private Teachers- reminds us of His motto, with a larger interpretation, may a Privat Docent who ought to have been in well be taken by all of us. the University of Pennsylvania:

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Dr. John D. Godman when a young lad, tried the experiment of going to sea, before the mast. One windy day he was helping to take in sail, when the rope on which he stood slipped from under his straggling feet, and he clung to the boom or spar, while looking down for it. Frightened and giddy he was about to fall, when the trumpet voice of the mate on deck thundered out to him, with an imprecation-Look aloft! He obeyed, the rope fell to its place under his feet, and he was saved. When he got upon land again he carried with him the mate's words as the motto for his life-conduct. While studying for his profession, he determined that as its end he would be Professor of Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania. When he thought himself competent, he collected a class of the medical students whose zeal was sufficient for this overwork, and gave instruction in dissection, lecturing with the subject before him. As his class grew to 70 we hoped that it would yield him a good income, but he said that the price of his tickets,- ten dollars - barely sufficed to pay for the subjects and other expenses. At all events he gained a fast growing reputation not unaccompanied by the ill-will of some who waited for fame and fortune to come to them unsought. When expressions of this were repeated to him, they were unnoticed till he heard that Dr. Physick, the Professor of Surgery supposed he had a hostile feeling toward the University. Then he waited upon this dignitary, whose solemn and almost stern presence will be recollected by a few of our contemporaries, and after arguing his right to get up a school of instruction outside the

Of the two stories which follow, the Spectator says, "John' is perfect in its way Moretti's Campanula ' is as simply pretty as a story can be." We presume" John" is by Mrs. Oliphant, and the other by Miss Thackeray.

"Deep-Sea Dredging"- shows some results which may cause geologists to consider whether their science is so absolutely sure as they have been accustomed to believe it.

Dear Miss Mitford is shown to us in a new light.

The next number will contain a full Edinburgh Review upon Bismarck, the very remarkable statesman who seems almost equal to Cavour and who has successfully contested with Louis Napoleon the destiny of Germany. Also "

Against Time"- part IV., of which the Spectator says, "We have not seen anything better in its way, with its sketch of 1863 -1866, and the way in which grand fortunes were made by men with a little capital, good name, no particular scruples, and some modicum of local information, a sketch which most writers would have made bitter, but which this one makes only brilliant." Is not this Charles Lever improved?

And so we shall go on endeavouring to fill our pages with life and knowledge.

Translated for THE LIVING AGE, from the Revue | the government. Since that time Germany

des Deux Mondes.

UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN GERMANY.*

We still remember the emotion with which we first crossed the threshold of one of the great German universities, whither we had gone as a student. It was at Berlin. The University is in the principal quarter of the town, opposite the king's palace, near the statue of Frederick the Great, and beyond that magnificent bridge over the Spree, which is adorned by eight white marble groups representing the poem of human liberty. The university building is unostentatious as becomes the palace of science. It occupies three sides of a grassy courtyard, which is closed in front by an iron fence. On the ground-floor long bare passage-ways, running through the building, lead to the lecture-rooms, whose low and massive doors look like the entrances of monks' cells. On the floor above are the collections and the library. Students come and go with their notebooks under their arms: but one never sees here the coloured mütze, nor the high boots, which, as well as the duel, are still the fashion at the small universities. All is subdued and silent. Before each door

has made still greater progress. Who knows whether we can regain our lost ground without a prodigious movement like that which gave France at one time the Normal School, the Polytechnic School, the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers, the Bureau of Longitudes, and the Museum? At any rate it is our duty to investigate the organization of education in Germany in order to understand its spirit, and to appropriate that spirit, if possible, to ourselves. It is gratifying to a nation to see its institutions envied by another, but it is also becoming in it to envy for itself the progress which is accomplished elsewhere: this is the first step towards making like progress at home.

I.

IN Germany as in France it is the Faculties who give the higher instruction and confer academical degrees. The analogy between the institutions of the two countries stops there. The fact of the union of the four fundamental Faculties of theology, law, medicine and philosophy in a single town constitutes a university. There are twenty-six universities in the whole German territory, including the German cantons of Switzerland and the Slavonic de

a bulletin indicates the times of lectures, of which there are several for nearly every hour in the day. In the thirty-two lecture-pendencies of Austria. Many of the unirooms more than three hundred courses are versity towns are mere villages which have given each semester upon the whole circle succeeded in making themselves a name in of the sciences, mathematical, natural, so- the history of human thought. Halle, Götcial and theological. In the presence of tingen, and Tübingen have been the centres this prodigious activity, of which nothing, in of a considerable intellectual movement. Paris even, had given us any idea, our Many of the universities are very old, and thoughts turned towards France, which in it cannot but surprise the observer to see the last century imposed its law upon the institutions founded in the middle ages still whole of learned Europe, and we recalled holding such an important position in our Goethe more attentive on his death-bed to time. The fourteenth century saw the the great struggles of the Museum and the foundation of two universities which have Institute, than to the political revolutions always been thronged, those namely of of Europe. At the time when we were thus Heidelberg (1346) and Prague (1347). helping to bring forward the startling re- That of Leipsic dates from the beginning of vival of study and science in Germany, but the fifteenth century (1409). The organfew persons in France had any conscious-ization, copied at that time from that of the ness of the superiority which in a few years was to be universally recognized even by

* 1. Jaccoud: De l'organisation des Facultes de medecine en Allemagne. Paris: 1864.

Sorbonne, has not much changed during five centuries, and the same plan has served for the modern universities of Berlin (1809) and of Bonn (1818). It is still considered

II. Von Sybel: Die deutschen und die auswartigen excellent, and with reason. Each of these Universitaten. Bonn: 1868.

III. Lorain: De la Reforme des etudes medicales par les laboratoires. Paris: 1868.

universities, which are bound together by no political ties, has its own history: they have