The second part of Henna Stilling completes JUNG'S auto- biography,
and comprises the conclusion of his Domestic Life and the whole of his Years of Tuition. In merit the present volume equals the first, and surpases it in point of interest. There is the same truthful picture of German life and manners; but the reader is also introduced to the difficulties with which a young physician has to struggle in a country-town, not only as regards his means of subsistence, his footing in society, nail his progress in his profbssion, but his conscientious misgivings as to his own capabilities, and even to the capabilities of his art as he had been taught it. The nave simplicity with which Stilling's everyday troubles are related, renders this account of ins domestic life a most amusing and delightful volume ; which qualities are not a little enhanced by the religious opinions and trusting faith of the amiable author. With him every thing is a direct interference of Providence, from the accident by which he was enabled when nearly penniless to pay for the coals that had just been delivered up, to the death of his first and second wives and his marriage with a third.
The concluding pages, containing the Years of Tuition, are not equal in amusement to the Domestic Life. Stilling has conquered his diflicult:ei; but the celebrated Professor and the Aulic Coun- sellor to the Grand Duke of Baden is not so interesting as the struggling student. He has also grown old and mystical; and his special interferences, though more numerous, are not so obvious in their purpose as during his younger days. Henrich was crazed.
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