val'iuus _yuuug hb'hrncu whu ~tayctl for this purpose at Wdrnar, J\'lull lldl\Jiltun's tliary fa the cou.t.ilurpart uf lhe exLen:iiv~ iulcrcst in German literature in lrda11cl 1Jcllwcc11 rn:rn and HV>U. mu~t 11uticcable in the Dublin University Magazine and The Nati(}n. The Hamiltons' e.xlample shows that thi~ interest had spread outside Dublin and b the femal,e sex. On their return to Ireland, the Hamiltons, from their hlind admiration of everything Germian, must have been in their circle an important source of information on German life a.nd German letters. JOHN HENNIG. :My thanks are due to the Trustees of the National Library of Ireland for permitting me to publish this note. ( - For further pal'ticulars of the Hamiltoncs in Germany see '~Sixty Y€tars' Experience as an Irish LianJdlord-memories of John Hamilton D.L." edited IWi'th introduction by Rev. H. C. White. (London~ Digby Long and Co.). - -••-••·----··--- --- -· _._ ••'< ·- -·-·---\~" .... ........- ...........- - - -- -- - ... ...-----------~---·-,T----·--·____.... I I Capt. J. S. Hamilton, Brownhall, now Jn his 86th year. A past president of the Donegal Historical Assodation. 318.
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