From the London Daily News. BERLIN, March 6. The great literary novelty of the day is a thick octavo volume of Letters from Alexander von Humboldt to Varnhagen von Ense," published by BROCKHAUS ...
Alexander von Humboldt was a naturalist and explorer whose books about his travels won legions of admirers, among them the young Charles Darwin. Andrea Wulf, who wrote the biography The Invention ...