[70] [However severely I may have expressed myself in a preceding page
    (105) of the general condition of this huge Inn, yet I cannot but gaze
    upon the subjoined view of it with no ordinary sensation of delight
    when I remember that the three-windowed room, on the first floor, to
    the right—­close to the corner—­was the room destined to be graced by
    the BOOK TREASURES above mentioned.  This view may also serve as a
    general specimen of the frontage of the larger Inns in Bavaria.]

    [Illustration]

[71] [All the book-world has heard mention of THE LINCOLNE NOSEGAY,
    —­a small handful of flowers, of choice hues, and vigorous stems,
    culled within the precincts of one of the noblest cathedrals in
    Europe.  Neither Covent Garden at home, nor the Marche aux Fleurs at
    Paris, could boast of such a posey.  I learn, however, with something
    approaching to horror, that the Nosegay in question has been
    counterfeited.  A spurious edition (got up by some unprincipled
    speculator, and, I must add, bungling hand—­for the typographical
    discrepancy is obvious) is abroad.  Roxburghers, look well to your
    book-armouries!  The foe may have crept into them, and exchanged your
    steel for painted wood.]

[72] There is something so hearty and characteristic in the Director’s last
    letter to me, that I hope to be pardoned if I here subjoin a brief
    extract from it.  “M.  Scherer vient me quitter, et m’annoncer que votre
    depart est fixe pour demain.  Jamais maladie—­auxquelles, heureusement,
    je suis tres rarement expose—­m’est survenu aussi mal-a-propos qu’a
    cette fois-ci.  J’avois compte de jouir encore au moins quelques jours,
    apres mon retablissement, de votre entretien, et jetter les fondemens
    d’une amitie collegiale pour la future.  La nouvelle, que M. Scherer
    m’apporte, me desole.  J’avois forme le plan de vous accompagner pour
    voir quelqu’uns de nos Institutions remarquables, principalement La
    Lithographie, “Vana Somnia!” Votre resolution de quitter Munich
    plutot que je n’avois pense, detruit mes esperances.  N’est-ce-pas
    possible que vous passiez par Munich a votre retour de Vienne?  Utinam! 
    Combien de choses restent, sur lesquelles j’esperais de causer et de
    traiter avec vous!  “I bono alite:  pede fausto.”

    [Autograph]

    [The author of this Letter is NO MORE!]

[73] See the note, p. 157 ante.

[74] This Engraving appears in the AEdes Althorpianae, vol. i. p. 246. 
    On my return to England, it was necessary to keep up a correspondence
    with the amiable and intelligent character in question.  I make no
    apology, either to the reader, or to the author of the Epistle, for
    subjoining a copy of one of