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318 Hereditary Talent and Character For in truth there was in the soul of the boy, who had never had any but women to look up to, a strange yearning towards reyereiiZe, which was called into action with; inexpressible force by the very aspect and tone of such a sage elder and counsellor as Master Gottfried Sorel, and took advantage of the first opening permitted by his brother. And the sympathy always so strong between the two qui~kencd the like feeling in Ebbo, so that the same movement drew him on his knee beside Friedel in oblivion or renunciation of all lordly pride towards a kinsman such as he had here encountered. 49 Truly and. heartily, my fair youths," said Master Gottfried with the same kind dignity, "do I pray the good God to bless you, and render you faithful and loving sons, not only to your mother, but to your fatherland." He was unable to ~istinguish between the two exactly simIhu forms that knelt before him, yet there was something in the quiver of Friedel's head, which made him press it with a shade more of tenderness then the other. And in truth tears were welling into the eyes veiled by the fingers that Friedel clasped over his face, for such a blessing was strange and sweet to him. Their mother was ready to weep for joy. There was now no drawback to her bliss, since her son and her uncle had accepted one another ; and she repaired to her own beloved old chamber a happier being than she had been since she had left its wainscoted walls. Nay, as she gazed out at the familiar outlines of roof and tower, and felt herself truly at home, then knelt by the little undisturbed altar of her devotions, with the cross above and her own patron saint below in carved wood, and the flowers which the good aunt had ever kept as a freshly-renewed offering, she felt that she was happier, more fully thankful and blissful than even in the girlish calm of her untroubled life. Her prayer that she might come again in peace had been. more than fulfilled ; nay, when she had seen her boys kneel meekly to receive her. uncle's blessing it was . in some sort to her as if the work was done, as if the millstone had been borne up for her, and had borne her and her' dear ones with it. But there was much to come. She knew full well that, even though her son's first step had been in the right direction, it was in a path beset with difficulties ; and how would her proud Ebbo meet them? To be continued. I HEREDITARY TALENT AND CHARACTER SECOND PAPER. BY I IIAVr•, shown, in my previous paper, that, intellect,uul capacity, is so largely trancniittcd by descent that, out of every hundred sons of men distinguished in the open professions, no less than eight are found to have rivalled their fathers in emindncc. I t must b© recollected I NoTF:.-I take this opportunity of correcting a small erralNni in my IaRt paper. The name of the author of the forthcoming Brief Biogra phical Dictionary train which I quoted should have teeu the Rev. Charles Hole, not Hone. FRANCIS GALTON. that success of this kind implies the simultaneous inheritance of many points of character, in addition to mere intellectual capacity. A man must inherit good health, a love' of mental work, a strong purpose, and considerable ambition, in order to achieve successes of the high order of which. we are speaking. The deficiency of any one of these qualities would certainly be injurious, and probably be fatal to his chance of obtaining great distinction. But more than this the proportion we have arrived at takes