sters with more ease than northern courtiers toward their princes, or
dependents with us toward their superiors. Yet, examined closely, these
marks of consideration have been really introduced for the benefit of
the dependents, who by these means always remind their superior what is
due them.

The southerner, however, craves for hours in which to take his ease, and
this accrues to the advantage of his household. Such scenes are
described by Winckelmann with great relish; they lighten whatever
dependence he may feel, and nourish his sense of freedom which was
averse to every fetter that might restrain him.

STRANGERS

Although Winckelmann was very happy in his association with the natives,
he suffered all the more annoyance and tribulation from strangers. It is
true that nothing can be more exasperating than the usual stranger in
Rome. In every other place the traveler can better look out for himself
and find something suitable to his needs; but whoever does not
accommodate himself to Rome is an abomination to the man of real Roman
sentiment.

The English are reproached because they take their tea-kettles
everywhere along with them, even dragging them to the summit of Mt.
AEtna. But has not every nation its own tea-kettle, in which its citizens
on their travels brew a bundle of dried herbs brought along from home?

Such hurrying and arrogant strangers, never looking about them, and
judging everything in accordance with their own narrow limitations, were
denounced by Winckelmann more than once; he vows never to show them
about, and yet finally allows himself to be persuaded to do it. He jests
over his inclination to play the schoolmaster, to teach and to convince,
and indeed many advantages accrued to him through the association with
persons important by reason of their rank and services. We mention only
the Prince of Dessan, the Crown Prince of Mecklenburg-Strelitz and
Brunswick, and Baron von Riedesel, a man who showed himself quite worthy
of our friend in his attitude toward art and antiquity.

THE WORLD

Winckelmann constantly sought after esteem and consideration; but he
wished to achieve them through real merit. He always insists upon
thoroughness of subject, of means, and of treatment, and is therefore
very hostile toward French superficiality.

He found in Rome opportunities to associate with strangers of all
nations, and maintained such connections in a clever, effective manner.
He was pleased with, ind