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burnt, and then handed over to thelr servants to make aninfusion for the kitchen breakfast.

In fact, in a true middle-class German household, thechildren hardly know the taste even of sugar.

" Help her, indeed!" said a German lady, in reply to a re-quest for charity on behalf of a widow who had " seen betterdays;" "not I ! for your grand ladies who must have milk andsugar in their coffee should be taught to know what want is."

(3.)MANNHEIM.

As Coblenz Stands on the tongue of land at the veryjunction of the Mosel with the Rinne, so is Mannheim situateon the narrow Cape of marshes formed by the meeting of theriver Neckar with the great German stream. It is, indeed, theCity of the Confluence of the " Ober-Rhein."

But the beauty which the lower " Confluentia" derivesfrom the union of the two rivers, pouring from out theirdifferent mountain Channels, is utterly lost at Mannheim—theriver scenery at that point being as flat and unpicturesque asthat of Battersea, at the "eck" where the muddy Wandletrickles into the drab-coloured Thames.

Nor is the architecture of Mannheim more attrac.tive thanthe scenery amid which it is set. The new stucco Stadt is,indeed, the civic antithesis to the quaint old tumble-down townsof Worms and Oppenheim, being closely allied in urban