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WE remember when at school being called upon to admire the beauties of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell. Our impressions of that play were then by no means complimentary to some of the principal personages: so far as we could see Melcthal, Stauffacher and the rest of the members of the three Cantons apparently did nothing but meet clandestinely (when the weather was favourable) to talk much treason and fine sentiment, generously leaving most of the hard work to be performed by Tell (who being lowly-born was perhaps not so free of speech). All this was doubtless wrong and absurd; but we are reminded of these early impressions by the character of much of what is being said and done in reference to the education of the masses in the present movements. There is a wonderful disparity in the proportion of Tells to our ideal Melcthals and Stauf-fachers. Possibly, if certain noisy persons would but show their earnestness in the practical manner of Mr. Grundy, the wheels of progress would not drag so heavily.
An Introduction to the Study of Chymistry.
Written for the People by Cuthbert C. Grundy. Pp. 108. (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)
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T., T. An Introduction to the Study of Chymistry . Nature 1, 457 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001457a0
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