V. Lehrer und Freunde.

i'ull maLurity. Pordaps the pecularity cd it was thc combination of a deep andearnest fellow-feeling with Ihe working dass, of strong views as a National-Liberal and of Old-Catliolic principlcs. But in the intervals of my intercourse with him,I could trace changes of feeling, tcnding, as it secmed to me, to fuller and moreconsislenl development. The passionato militant Bismarckianism which cliarac-terised him when I first knew him had latterly becomc modified on scveral points.Ile was too sensible and too rightminded to approve of the putting down of thcsocial dcmocrals hy administrative persecution, although sooner than to go againstonc whom ho still viewed as thc lil'clong leader of his people, he withdrew latterlyi'rom politics. Ile toolc a Step further when in his last puhlication he combatedProtcctionism on scientific grounds. Again, he admitted to me, when I last sawhim, the failure of the Old-Catliolic movement, trusting only tliat from iLs ashessomo new movement of religions reform might spring. Held was, personally, thchandsomest German I have ever known and there was in him something singularlywinning. With high and honest purpose he combined great, though not first-ralo, abilities and great powers of work. Ile was a careful Student and when hetheorised did so from facts, and not „out of his inner consciousness“. I am con-vinccd tliat his work on thc social history of England would have been one ofvery great value, and from which inany an Englishman would have learned muclitliat he did not know. —