a violinist was
settled by the employment of hours rather than by any preponderance of
faculty.

FOOTNOTES:

[2] "Being astonished at the prodigious variety and at the extent of
knowledge possessed by the Germans, I begged one of my friends, Saxon
by birth, and one of the foremost geologists in Europe, to tell me
how his countrymen managed to know so many things. Here is his
answer, nearly in his own words:--'A German (except myself, who am
the idlest of men) gets up early, summer and winter, at about five
o'clock. He works four hours before breakfast, sometimes smoking all
the time, which does not interfere with his application. His
breakfast lasts half an hour, and he remains, afterwards, another
half-hour talking with his wife and playing with his children. He
returns to his work for six hours, dines without hurrying himself,
smokes an hour after dinner, playing again with his children, and
before he goes to bed he works four hours more. He begins again every
day, and never goes out. This is how it comes to pass that Oersted,
the greatest natural philosopher in Germany, is at the same time the
greatest physician; this is how Kant the metaphysician was one of the
most learned astronomers in Europe, and how Goethe, who is at present
the first and most fertile author in Germany in almost all kinds of
literature, is an excellent botanist, mineralogist, and natural
philosopher.'"

[3] The man, then, judges me worthy of death. Be it so.

PART V.

_THE INFLUENCES OF MONEY._

LETTER I.

TO A VERY RICH STUDENT.

The author of "Vathek"--The double temptation of wealth--Rich men
tempted to follow occupations in which their wealth is
useful--Pressure of social duties on the rich--The Duchess of
Orleans--The rich man's time not his own--The rich may help the
general intellectual advancement by the exercise of patronage--Dr.
Carpenter--Franz Woepke.

It has always seemed to me a very remarkable and noteworthy circumstance
that although Mr. Beckford, the author of "Vathek," produced in his
youth a story which bears all the signs of true inventive genius, he
never produced anything in after-life which posterity cares to preserve.
I read "Vathek" again quite recently, to see how far my early enthusiasm
for it might have been due to that passion for orientalism which reigned
amongst us many years ago, but this fresh p