His extraordinary energies cannot be too much praised, and there is no doubt but that in addition to being the possessor of great learning he was a man of high character.

His literary efforts were surprisingly varied.

There are at least thirty-six volumes with his name on the title-page, most of them unreadable to-day; even such works, for example, as his _Visit to the Philippine Isles_ and _Siam and the Siamese_, which involved travel into then little-known lands.

Perhaps the only book by him that to-day commands attention is his translation of Chamisso's _Peter Schlemihl_.

The most readable of many books by him into which I have dipped is his _Servian Popular Poetry_ of 1827, in which we find interesting stories in verse that remind us of similar stories from the Danish in Borrow's _Romantic Ballads_ published only the year before.