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magister," we said to the Deutscher who brought our batchof "milch brodchens" (milk breadlets) on the morning afterreading the Manchester exaggeration.

The "Bäcker" threw up his floury eyebrows and shookIns head, as he answered, "Ich verstehe nicht Englische" —(I do not understand English).

Moreover, when we spoke to the Germans themselves asto the classical acquirements of their butchers and bakers,they laughed, and replied that Herr Cobden had said asnrach only because he had been soundly rated in the Cölnand other papers for his abuse of the Germans, in hisspeech about the Foreign Legion.

Nevertheless, there is doubtlessly a greater waste of timein German schools upon languages that the lads will never,perhaps, have occasion to use in after-life, than there is inEnglish academies. Many a German youth, who has botheredhis brains tili he could write a theme in Greek with almostthe same fluency as in his native tongue, settles down inlife as a clerk in a post-office perhaps, or shopman to a dry-salter, or some equally classical occupation.

We ourselves wasted seven of the best years of our lifeat "Westminster School, where we were not even taught ourown language, nor even writing nor reckoning, but bored todeath simply with the dead tongues; and in proof of theadvantages derivable from such a System of education wecan safely say, that by the time our whiskers had' begun tosprout, and we were sent into the world to get our livingout of the elements by which we were surrounded, we werein the same beastly ignorance as any Carib — not only ofthe physical world about us, but of our own natures andour fellow-creatures, as well as of all that was right, true,beautiful, or indeed noble in life.

When Latin constituted the universal language, as it