KARL BLIND, essayist, scientist, and revolutionist, was born at Mannheim, September 4th, 1826, and educated at Heidelberg and Bonn Universities. In 1847 when all Europe was stirred by the progressive impulse which developed the German revolutionary movement of 1848 and 1849, Blind was still a student at the University. He was an enthusiastic sympathizer in the revolutionary movement, and, after being repeatedly imprisoned, took refuge in England where he lived until 1867, being then allowed to return to Germany. He has devoted much attention to the scientific study of Teutonic and Norse mythology. Among his published works are “The Siegfried Tale” and “Fire Burial among our Germanic Forefathers.”