3s. net.)—Dr. Ewald Haufe, whose experiences are here given in
an English form, shows us a strangely mixed personality. He seems to have an unbounded faith in human nature. Left to itself, especially if it is not hampered by religion, it will develop into all that is good and noble. But he never seems to have met with a concrete instance of this admirable development. Pre- tenders, charlatans, fools,—such were the people whom he met and had to deal with in a curiously varied experience. But this does not prevent the story of this same experience from being interest- ing, and even instructive. We do not exactly realise Dr. Haufe's conceptions of education. We should be surprised to find that they were in any sense literary, though his personal tastes may be this way inclined. He has written a book, "Natural Education," and this, the translator hopes, may yet be introduced to English readers. We shall be glad to see it, though we must own that our line is rather stare super antiques vies.
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