CONTENTS. - The Travel-writing. Holland. The Sublime in Scenery. Useful Arts.-Fine Arts. Useful and Fine Arts compared. Useful and Fine Arts. The Poor in France Face of the Country. Of England - old Subdivision of Land in England. - Great Social Experiment in France- Abolition of Primogeniture. - Opinions of Arthur Young Mr. Birbeck-Edinburgh Reviewers - Dr. Chalmers, reviewed. Effects of the Division of Land in France examined. Social Economy why not treated as a distinct Science. tocracy replaced by Functionarism in France in Germany. Interference of Government with Free Agency. — Amount of Functionarism in a French Department- Indre et Loire- Amount in a Scotch County Shire of Ayr. Effects of Func- tionarism on Industry on National Character -on Morals on Civil and Political Liberty. Change in the State of Pro- Prussia. Not constituting one Nation.-Prussian Policy in this a - Military Service of all Prussians. Service in the Line. - In the Army of Reserve. — First Division. Second. - Effects of the System on the Political Balance of Europe. Its Advan- tages. Its Disadvantages compared to a Standing Army. - Its great Pressure on Time and Industry. Its inferiority as a Military Force. - Amount of Military Force of Prussia. Defect in the Continental Armies. Non-commissioned Officers. Too delicately Bred in the Prussian Army. The German Customs' Union, or Commercial League. Its Notes on the Educational System of Prussia continued Notes on the Prussian Educational System continued. - Its Effects Character on the Social Economy of the Germans. The NOTES OF A TRAVELLER, &c. CHAPTER I. TRAVEL-WRITING. HOLLAND. THE SUBLIME IN SCENERY.THE PICTURESQUE IN HOLLAND. GARDEN HOUSES. DECAY OF HOLLAND. CAUSES OF DECAY.-COMMERCIAL DECLINE. -MANUFACTURING STABILITY. USEFUL ARTS.- - FINE ARTS. USEFUL AND FINE ARTS COMPARED. USEFUL AND FINE FEDERALISM. ARTS. THE POOR IN HOLLAND. THE POOR IN MANUFAC- IN the social state of the Continent, as it has settled itself since the great political and moral epoch of the French Revolution, there is a vast field to explore, which has scarcely been looked at by our Continental travellers. No period since the introduction of Christianity will be considered by posterity of equal importance with this half of the nineteenth century, — of equal influence in forming the future social and moral condition of the European people. All the great social influences, moral and physical, which have sprung up from the ashes of the French Revolution, and all the influences accumulating in prior times; the diffusion of knowledge by the press; of sentiments of religious and civil freedom by the Reformation; of wealth, wellbeing, and political importance in the middle class, or those between the nobility and peasantry of the feudal ages, by trade, manufactures, and industry; the influence over all ranks of acquired tastes, and wants unknown to their forefathers; the influence B |