New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-21

What followed is still painful to rerne,,,o.
The Queen looked at the unhappy fellow an a.
slant. then turned her back on him without an
swering his well meaning question and 60
tinued her conversation with me- but In C,errna
instead Of in English, which she had previousIy
been speaking. / thought should sink int
the ground. How could the royal lady who 80
always hitherto shown only the Qualities -.
the noblest feminine character, treat the good
old man 80 inconsiderately?
But Adams. the assistant. took the matte,
humbly and to Eofmann's comforting word,
afterward said: TT served me right Why dir,
I hold my tongue?" And Sir James. the rnas,s.
of the household. some days later said He b,s
no business to speak to the Queen without les,,
askedt
In 1868 Hoffman, received a call To a nro,o,
sorship in Berlin University He was a. ~.
height of his fame In London and accordiny .
his biographer, well known and as pom
lar as Tyndan and Huxley: while his relation,
with the government analyst and adviser =,
technical matters made his position a very In
crative one. But the advantages for scientfs.
work lay with the Berlin position. wbic,
Mitscherlich had made famous He made N.
change not without much self-questioning but
his decision is one that does honor to his sri
entific ideals. In May. 1866, he was settled IN
Berlin for the rest Of his life His circle Of ae-
as in London Within it was included George
Bancroft American Minister, and there ia .
characteristic anecdote relating to him. dat;ny
from 1870. when the first body Of French priz-
oners had been brought to Berlin. Bancroft
came that day to get him to see these men al
the railroad station. There was no adrnittancs
without ticket, and neither had one They
pressed their way through the crowd, but though
Bancroft mentioned his name to the police or
cial in charge there was no reIenting Hofrnanu
describes the incident thus:
But the American did not give I'd so easuv
From time to tima faces appeared at the win
dowS of the upper stories. Whenever he saw one
Bancroft shouted in stentorian tones 81 want
to get inr' OF course there was a burst O,
Homeric laughter from the crowd and a hum
bred voices cried in Berlin dialect: Me tool
Me tool" But my friend unrufled by the
merriment of the bystanders. and his persist
ence was rewarded Il woman's head appeared
at the window. and again Bancroft emitted bis
shout "Oh. it's you, your excellencyP' an
swered a feminine voice. I'll see that you are
let in" And an employee did really appear al
once, and. after speaking to the Lieutenant OF
police, took US in
We cannot follow the great chemist through
! all the work he did, and ali the honors that
came to him in the great German university,
among them an intimate acquaintance with the
Empress Frederick We find him maintaining
through it all the same youthful elasticity Of
spirits and the same eagerness in al the con-
Germs Of life that marked his younger years in
England In 1888 he was enc Of The guests Of
Mr. Henry Willard at the opening of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, and he describes in pict-
uresque detail the trip to Portland and the
turn, during which he made a little excursion Of
four days and nights to visit old friend in
San Antonio Tex We find him making fire.
cuent visits to Italy. climbing annually to the
top of the Milan Cathedral. ascending Vesuvius
by a rough bypath because the regular trail
was choked with suIphurOus gases. We find
him working regularly till o'clock IN the morn
ing and in his seventy-ffth year dancing at a
wedding that took place IN his house. He died
in May 1893. after one Of his italian journeys,
active to the end
1t is a most appealing biography The sec
ond part deals with the technical details Of Hof
neann's work which are set forth by Emil
Fischer Experimental research was his chief
contribution to science in which his lively, al
most artistic imagination was an important
element independent speculation toward the
theory of chemistry, though time when the
modern theory was in it's formative period. was
not in his line. But his Iabors opened new and
fruitful fields in organic chemistry; and. con-
sidering his remarkable contributions during
| thirty years to the chemistry of coal tar prod
ucts Herr Fischer thinks himself justified in
ssyins, that except KekuIe, one in the second
| half of the nineteenth century had so great an
or, o-o,a1if chemistry as VIII