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experience, and enable us to see more of the
Lofoden islands, as the Danish boat crosses to these and
stops at a few of the island stations. The North
Cape packet proceeds directly without crossing.
We start accordingly in a well-appointed vessel,
far superior to the old ‘Constitutione,’ in which I
was a passenger in 1856. In the saloon is a good
piano, and as there were several Germans on board,
the piano was by no means idle. The majority of
these Germans were commercial travellers, and,
as usual, were well-educated gentlemen, speaking
three or four languages, good pianists (though
rather thumpy), reading music freely, able to play
difficult pieces at sight, and better acquainted with
English literature and English history than an
average B.A. of Oxford or Cambridge. When we
compare these with the same class of our own
countrymen, the contrast displays our general
educational inferiority in very humiliating
distinctness. Those of our middle classes who
complain of the number of young Germans who find
their way into our commercial houses, and elbow
aside their English competitors, will do well to
consider whether they are fulfilling their sacred
duty as parents when they consign their sons to
the teaching of a clerical or classical schoolmaster,
who can only keep them down to his own
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