cultivated portion of the ignorant, his domestic life was suddenly

overwhelmed by orphans. The death of his younger brother Jacob saddled

him with the charge of two boys, Morris and John; and in the course of

the same year his family was still further swelled by the addition of a

little girl, the daughter of John Henry Hazeltine, Esq., a gentleman

of small property and fewer friends. He had met Joseph only once, at a

lecture-hall in Holloway; but from that formative experience he returned

home to make a new will, and consign his daughter and her fortune to the

lecturer. Joseph had a kindly disposition; and yet it was not without

reluctance that he accepted this new responsibility, advertised for a

nurse, and purchased a second-hand perambulator. Morris and John he made

more readily welcome; not so much because of the tie of consanguinity

as because the leather business (in which he hastened to invest their

fortune of thirty thousand pounds) had recently exhibited inexplicable

symptoms of decline. A young but capable Scot was chosen as manager to

the enterprise, and the cares of business never again afflicted Joseph

Finsbury. Leaving his charges in the hands of the capable Scot (who was

married), he began his extensive travels on the Continent and in Asia

Minor.

With a polyglot Testament in one hand and a phrase-book in the other,

he groped his way among the speakers of eleven European languages.

The first of these guides is hardly applicable to the purposes of the

philosophic traveller, and even the second is designed more expressly

for the tourist than for the expert in life. But he pressed interpreters

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