[4] Much the most important part of the service in Protestant Switzerland, and a less formal one than in Scotland. [↑]
[5] Utmost wisdom is not in self-denial, but in learning to find extreme pleasure in very little things. [↑]
[6] This pleasure is a perfectly natural and legitimate one, and all the more because it is possible only when the riches are very moderate. After getting the first shilling of which I told you, I set my mind greatly upon getting a pile of new “lion shillings,” as I called them—the lion standing on the top of the crown; and my delight in the bloomy surface of their dead silver is quite a memorable joy to me. I have engraved, for the frontispiece, the two sides of one of Hansli’s Sunday playthings; it is otherwise interesting as an example of the comparatively vulgar coinage of a people uneducated in art. [↑]
[7] Has quarrelled with them. [↑]
[8] “Les ont brusquées.” I can’t get the derivation beyond Johnson: “Fr. brusque; Gothic, braska.” But the Italian brusco is connected with the Provençal brusca, thicket, and Fr. broussaille. [↑]
[10] ‘The Forms of Water.’ King and Co., Cornhill. 1872. [↑]
[11] When next the reader has an opportunity of repeating Professor Tyndall’s experiments (p. 92) in a wreath of dry snow, I recommend him first to try how much jumping is necessary in order to get into it “breast-deep”; and secondly, how far he can “wade” in that dramatic position. [↑]