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will judge as to the measure of success the late author
has attained, but the present writer, who has edited the
volume with much care, has no hesitation in pronouncing
it to be highly interesting.
The author’s baptismal name was Ernst Ludwig Fischer,
but his admiration for Carlyle and Tennyson led him to
adopt the nom de guerre of Thomas Alfred Fischer.
Besides his translations into German of the Life and
some of the works of Carlyle and Tennyson, and of Lord
Goschen’s Life of his grandfather, G. J. Göschen, the
Leipzig bookseller, and various other literary and historical
volumes, he was the author of two interesting and original
works, w The Scots in Germany ” and “ The Scots in
Eastern and Western Prussia,” published in 1902 and
1903 respectively, by Messrs Otto Schulze & Co.,
Edinburgh. To these valuable works, which throw much new
light on the history of Scottish settlers in Germany, the
present volume forms a fitting and crowning sequel. It is
only fair to the late author to state that he left his MS.
in such excellent condition as to be almost ready to go
direct to the printer. The editor’s labour of love has
therefore consisted merely in removing a few slight
Germanisms, clearing up a few trifling obscurities, and
verifying and correcting some of the Swedish words and
names.
From the above slight sketch it is manifest that Mr
Fischer was admirably fitted to undertake to write a new
volume on “ The Scots in Sweden.” To his great
learning and ability he added the most untiring and unselfish
zeal for historical research, with the result that he has
now contributed to Scottish history three volumes which
few if any Scots could have produced. Some three years
ago the gifted author requested his friend, the present
editor, to write an Introduction to this historical work, on
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