lation between Columbus and Queen
Isabella, after her chivalrous confidence and patronage--must have
drawn their souls towards each other with a romantic interest, only
needing better opportunities for personal intimacy to warm into a
fervent sympathy.

The Countess of Pembroke, wife of that Philip Herbert who was the
brother of Shakespeare's friend, showed how tenderly she remembered
her old instructor, Daniel, the poet-laureate, by erecting a handsome
monument to him in Beckington Church, bearing this inscription: "Here
lies, expecting the second coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus
Christ, the dead body of Samuel Daniel, Esq., who was tutor to the
Lady Anne Clifford in her youth. She was that daughter and heir to
George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland, who, in gratitude to him,
erected this monument to his memory, a long time after, when she was
Countess Dowager of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery." One of the
most beautiful recorded friendships of this kind is that revealed in
the long correspondence of Descartes and his pupil, the Princess
Elizabeth of Bohemia. Her charming character and distinguished
attainments add largely to the gratification with which we trace her
ardent esteem and attachment for her instructor and friend, whose
brilliant genius and adventurous career are of themselves
fascinating. A pleasing little volume by M. de Caren was published at
Paris so lately as the year 1862, under the title, "Descartes and the
Princess Palatine, or the Influence of Cartesianism on the Women of
the Seventeenth Century." An example of a kindred friendship is also
given by Leibnitz and his pupil, Caroline of Brunswick. Soon after
the electoress became Queen of Prussia, she invited him to visit her,
saying, "Think not that I prefer this greatness and this crown, about
which they make such a bustle here, to the conversations on
philosophy we have had together in Lutzenburg." Frederick the Great
relates that the queen, in her last hours, mentioned the name of
Leibnitz. One of the ladies in waiting burst into tears, and the
queen said to her, "Weep not for me; for I am now going to satisfy my
curiosity respecting the origin of things, which Leibnitz has never
been able to explain to me, respecting space, existence and non-
existence, and the Infinite." Frederick adds, that, as "those persons
to whom Heaven vouchsafes gifted souls raise themselves to an
equality with monarchs, this queen esteemed Leibnitz well worthy of
he