port of the case, to which, it appeared, their laws gave me a
valid claim. I took the papers, and crammed them into my valise, in
the hasty packing which took place so soon as I got back to my
companion. In a quarter of an hour, we were on our road towards
Berlin, having been taught a lesson of politeness, even towards
rogues, at the expense of a stoppage of more than thirty hours on our
route. I have no recollection how the papers found their way into the
old trunk from which they were lately unkennelled. They are now before
me, and consist of nearly fifty sides of small foolscap, written in a
bold legal hand, affording a unique specimen of the cheapness of law
amongst a community who, it is to be supposed, had but little demand
for it.

A few short months after this event, and the little town where it took
place had something else to think of. The ill-advised step of the
Prussian government, who, relying upon the aid of Russia, declared war
against Napoleon, brought the devastating hordes of republican France
among them. The battle of Jena placed the whole kingdom at the foot of
the conqueror; and few towns suffered more, comparatively, than the
little burgh which, by the decree of a very doubtful sort of justice,
had mulcted me in penalties for calling a very ill-favoured rogue by
his right name.

TRACES OF THE DANES AND NORWEGIANS IN ENGLAND.

Mr J. J. A. Worsaae, a conspicuous member of that brilliant corps of
northern antiquaries who have of late given a new wing to history,
travelled through the United Kingdom in 1846-7, on a commission from
his sovereign the king of Denmark, to make inquiry respecting the
monuments and memorials of the Danes and Norwegians, which might still
be extant in these islands. The result of his investigations appeared
in a concise volume, which has been translated into English, and
published by Mr Murray in a handsome style, being illustrated by
numerous wood-cuts.[4] It is a work which we would recommend to the
attention of all who feel any interest in our early history, as
calculated to afford them a great gratification. One is surprised to
find in how great a degree the Northmen affected Britain; what an
infusion of Scandinavian blood there is in our population; how many
traces of their predominancy survive in names of places and in more
tangible monuments. Mr Worsaae writes with a warm feeling towards his
country and her historical reminiscences, but without allowing it t