bread being made), three for a penny. These the German bakers in London sell at one penny each. Fruit is very cheap; grapes the least so, about 3d. per lb. Fine large blue plums you may buy in the streets fifty for a penny, and so on.

Silks, satins, and velvets are much cheaper than in England; most other articles of dress as dear or dearer. Prints, muslins, and all articles of English manufacture, of course, much dearer; and such as are reckoned very common things here are worn there in company. Washing may be got done at a cheap rate, at about 7s. per week for a family of nine persons; and where the family consists chiefly of little children, 8d. per dozen. But this is not easily effected at first. We, at the commencement, were charged more than London prices for washing, and the Germans assured us that that was the regular price. As we became familiar with the language, those prices began to fall, and by repeated inquiries fell and fell to one-third of that price, which our worthy German housewives protested that they themselves paid. In fact, until you are au fait with the language, you are cheated and fleeced unmercifully; and it is curious, as the light of knowledge in this respect dawns on you, how the prices of all sorts of things begin to fall. The very servants, who have made a fine harvest of your ignorance, now quit your service. Ours candidly confessed that there was no more to be got out of us, any more than out of a German

family, and that they must seek out some new English. One girl told us how much she had been blamed by the shopkeepers and others, for staying so long with us, and letting us so much into the secret of things. It took us, however, three years to reduce our charges to anything like those of the Germans themselves, and we had but just learned to live there when we were coming away. During all this time, we never found one German housekeeper, however friendly she appeared, and however pious she might be, who would give us a glimpse of genuine light, but always asserted that we gave no more than they. Oh! thou Deutsche Treue! thou German faithfulness! how different a thing art thou to Deutsche Wahrheit, German truth; and how different are ye both to our ideas of such things! Deutsche Treue is to stick back and edge to each other, and plunder the "rich English." Deutsche Wahrheit is, moreover, a most comfortable, stretching, India-rubber thing.

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There is a mystery which always puzzles the English. The German professors and other official people have often notoriously small salaries. are told, for instance, that a German professor with an income of 2000 gulden, that is about 1801. per annum, can live very well. Men of this income are pointed out to you. They live in houses as good; they have a family as large, who dress as well as yours. You see them at all public balls, concerts, and other places of amusement. They make their

annual pleasure tour, to the baths or elsewhere. They drive about in hired carriages very freely, go to all entertainments at any distance in them, and appear dressed excellently. The ladies have always plenty of jewellery, they dress in satins and velvets on these occasions, and at home they have stocks of clothes which astonish you. They, in fact, heartily despise the small stores of all English people. But you who do not exceed these people in any apparent article of expense, and who do not indulge in many particulars which they do, find that at the lowest ebb of your economical discoveries you cannot live for less than 7000 gulden; and compare this sum with the expenditure of any or all of your English acquaintances, and you find it is the average or below it. All are in wonder over the

mystery of German management, and not a mortal

can dive into it.

on our parts for

After the most unwearied efforts

three long years, we leave the penetration of this standing arcanum to some future genius in discovery.

Return we now to the great subject of education. The next safe plan is to entrust your children to some English friend in whom you can confide, if you know such, who will undertake to accompany half-a-dozen boys or girls to Germany for four or five years.

There he or she can have masters, or can send the children daily into a good school, and can see that their education regularly and satisfactorily progresses. This is no uncommon practice,

and I only wonder that it is not more common. How many accomplished and well-qualified people, qualified I mean both in head and heart, have we, who would be delighted to spend a few years in Germany, if they could have half-a-dozen of their friends' children thus confided to their care and superintendence. It is true that this plan does not offer any decided cheapness, for as this superintendence and board would not be restricted to about three-quarters of the year as in boarding schools at home, but for the whole year, the charge for each child could not be much less than 100%. per annum. But then, the children would have every advantage to be derived from a German education, combined with the comforts of an English home, and the security of their religious principles.

Some families, having experienced the evils of the German schools, have sought a remedy in confiding their children to private German teachers, i. e., to such as receive a limited number of English children into their houses; but by this change they have only jumped out of the frying-pan into the fire. They have found that their children have generally got a worse cuisine, and have exchanged the company of a troop of cheerful playfellows for solitude. So far as the acquisition of German is concerned, there is no means by which it is so perfectly acquired as by daily association with German children. In private families they lose these great desiderata, and find a troop of annoyances instead.

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have seen a letter sent to a friend of mine in England from a teacher of this kind, who held out to the father the attraction of the fine views which his children could enjoy from his house; but the father had made one trial of this dominie, and had proved that these were the only agreeable views which his house afforded. Much had been said of the advantages which his children would derive from mixing in the evening parties at the teacher's house; but the children soon found that on all such occasions they had lessons to learn, and were accordingly sent up to their garret. In short, they had little food, little society, little pleasure or advantage. They led the life of dolorous hermits, and looked with envy on the troops of schoolboys whom they saw walking abroad, or engaged with cries of happy cheerfulness at their play.

Those who look towards Germany as the country of cheap education, have particularly to guard against deception, and the most serious mischiefs to their children's constitutions. There is a great idea that a good education may be had in that country in a boarding-school, where the charge is but 201. per annum. Nay, I have heard it gravely asserted by parents, that their children were at schools there at 167. per annum each! Nor need this, indeed, appear so extraordinary, when there are large schools within five miles of London where boys are received at 201. a year each. It is true enough that there are plenty of Do-the