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other manifestations of joy at Carlsruhe, Baden and Durlach.The people on the other side of the water have hardly anotion of the teutonic enjoyments and the comfortable ease,in which those things arc done. Am I right or not, if I say,that pleasure is a sort of business to the majority of the Eng-lish and the enjoyment of it too much ruled by the codex of"bienseance", and the Statutes of which are too much in favorof formalities and ceremonies. But every nation may have itsown ways and whims, and after all "de gustibus non est dispu-tandum". After having been fully satiated by intellectual andbodily pleasures at Carlsruhe, I took a trip with Liebig, Rose iand some other philosophers to see sorae interesting establish-ments in the country, and then, tempted by the glorious weathcrof antumn and the seducing neighbourhood of the finest sceneryof the Rhinc, I lounged about in the classical regions of thehistory of the Rhine, visiting many an old friend and drinkingmore than a glass of old Hock. One Excursion was mostparticulary beautiful: With a couple of friends I descendedfrom Mayence to Bingen and arrived there, all of us, devoutreverers of father Rhine, went up to the chapel Saint Rochus,emptying there in honor of his Majesty a bottle or two of hismost generous and incomparable nectar. Those heights affordone of the most picturesque views along the Rhine. I won'tteil you any more about my idle ramblings, suffice it to know,that they proved delicious, and that Mr. Schcenbein was "joli-ment" scolded by Mrs. Schcenbein on aecount of his very longoutstayings. By this time 1 have entered the career of everyday life and shall, before long, live again in the consortium ofmy chemical hero, whose interior naturc I want to know muchbetter, than I do now. You have no doubt enjoycd a tranquiland pastoral country-life at Hamptoncöurt and I confidently

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1 Heinrich Rose Ph. D. studied Chemistry under Berzelius and was professorof Chemistry at the University of Berlin. He was born in 1795 at Berlin anddied there in 1864.