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CUP-PUDDING FOR INFANTS.-Mix a full-sized dessert-spoonful of the Flour with half a pint of milk, a lump of sugar, and a pinch of salt. Boil for eight minutes (stirring it all the time), and then add one egg well beaten. Mix thoroughly and pour into a buttered cup, tie up in a cloth, and again boil for about ten minutes. Serve it hot. Retailed by Family Grocers and Druggists, and Wholesale by J. & J. COLMAN, 108, Cannon Street, London. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. THE RHINE. Zum Rhein, zum Rhein, zum deutschen Rhein ! BECKER'S Die Rheinwacht. Nous l'avons eu, votre Rhin Allemand, Où le père a passé, passera bien l'enfant. ALFRED DE MUSSET, Réponse à la Chanson de Becker. THE question of the Rhine as the natural or political frontier of Germany or France, requires more consideration than is usually given to it. A river affords a ready and convenient line of demarcation, just as a chain of mountains does, between two countries; but while the latter effects a natural division, often between races of men, as in the instance of the Pyrenees, a river, on the contrary, is generally the populous and commercial centre of a nation. Poland before its partition was the valley of the Vistula, just as Prussia itself was once the Oder. The Rhine does not, then, constitute the boundary of France and Germany, because the race of people on both sides, at least its central portion, are the same—that is to say, German; although the long tenure of a portion of the left bank by France has introduced into the provinces so held much French blood, a mixed dialect, strong religious feeling, and French proclivities, just as was the case with Germany in Holstein. A French writer of distinction upon this oft and bitterly discussed question admits that the Rhine constitutes a political rather than a military frontier. "The region which it traverses from Basle to the sea is," he says, "a geological whole, through which it forces itself a way, and the regions on both banks are so similar in climate, soil, productions, and inhabitants, as to be indivisible." The same writer, however, commits a great error when he says that the Romans made of the Rhine a barrier against Germanic invasion, or, as he has it, a barrier between civilisation and barbarism. The Romans really colonised the whole length of the valley, as a great commercial centre and line of communication. So well were their stations selected, that many of them, as ArgenDec.-VOL. CXLVII. NO. DC. 2т toratum (Strasburg), Maguntiacum (Mainz), Confluentes (Coblentz), and Colonia Agrippina (Cologne), have continued ever since to be great centres of population and commerce. Some of their strongholds, as Bingium (Bingen), Ambitarinus Vicus (Boppart), Antonacum (Andernach), and many others, were erected to defend the passage of hills or the centre of mountainous regions, just as in the instance of the feudal castles of medieval times. Their towns and strongholds, although in main part on the left bank, were also in many instances planted on the right bank, as Mons Brisiacus, (Alt Brisach); Castellum Germanici (Wiesbaden), in the Taunus; Segedunum (Siegburg), on the Segus or Sieg; and others. The left bank of the Rhine constituted, in fact, in Roman times, Germania Superior, which extended to the Jura-the country of the Seguani-and Germania Inferior, which included Holland, or the Netherlands. What is now better known as Germany, was then Germania Trans-Rhenana, or Germany beyond the Rhine. Gallia Belgica, or Belgian Gaul, extended from the Scaldis (Scheldt or Schelde) to the Seguana or Seine; Gallia Celtica, or Lugdunensis, so called from its capital Lugdunus (now Lyons), commencing upon the other side of that river. That a central, fertile, and populous valley like that of the Rhine should be occasionally invaded by the hardy tribes at that time inhabiting mountain recesses and openings in the vast tracts of forest and marsh, which covered the greater portion of the adjacent countries, is natural; but it did not constitute a frontier against aggression so much as a centre of resistance, and so well was it kept, that it was not till the third century, when the empire was in its decadence and its legions were demoralised, that the defence of the Rhine was intrusted by Probus, not to the Gauls, but to its native inhabitants, the Germans. The valley of the Rhine was at this epoch divided into what were called "Germania prima" and "Germania secunda." These German colonies were even at this early period incessantly invaded and harassed by the Gauls and Franks; it was in vain that Julian drove back these warlike tribes; they returned like locusts to the assault, ravaged the towns and cities, and devastated the country. At length, in A.D. 406, the whole of the north sent forth its hordes to take reprisals, the country that stretches from the Rhine to the Atlantic was overrun; and we must go back fourteen centuries to find a parallel for the events of 1813 and 1870. The rise of the Franks upon the fall of the Roman Empire was followed by the continuation of the same unending wars between the Gaulish and Teutonic races, until Charlemagne brought both under the same sceptre-an unnatural extension of power, which entailed the same fatal consequences in the ninth as it did in the nineteenth century. The people gathered together under this ephemeral empire soon sought to separate themselves from it; the battle of Fontenay, followed by the treaty of Verdun (A.D. 842), effected the separation; and Gaul, now the kingdom of France, was cast back to its own national centre, and within its own natural limits. These limits did not at this first distribution of the land by its own people, and following up the collapse of an ephemeral empire, in as far as France was concerned, extend to the Rhine; on the contrary, the kingdom of Lorraine aggregated in the north between the Franks and the Saxons, just as that of Provence did in the south between the Franks and the Lombardians. France commenced, however, at this early epoch, as a dismembered joint of Charlemagne's empire, that incessant career of turbulence and invasion which, after ten centuries of struggles and combats, has not yet found an end. French writers designate this state of things as a glorious task imposed upon its successive monarchs, to be ever striving to recover their "natural frontiers," and to establish the "true position and grandeur" of the country -that is to say, its supremacy, and the result has been to render France a perpetual centre of aggression and a focus of European discord, and to compel all other nations to preserve an attitude of defence, and to maintain large and exhausting fleets and armies. This system of aggression, designated by French historians as "the work of reconstruction of the French territory," was energetically proceeded with by the kings of the third race. The traditional policy of these kings to keep extending the limits of their dominions began with Hugues Capet, and, if suspended for a time, has never been entirely abandoned. Such an extension of territory was admittedly not "the work of one man, nor of one reign, they knew that; but each successive monarch was expected to contribute a stone to the edifice, and that with a deep faith, an unfailing devotion, and a persevering skill. It was not a vulgar ambition that animated them, but a family mission, which they had to fulfil patiently and perseveringly." By following out the system thus laid out for themselves by the French monarchy, the kingdom of France, which had Orleans and Beauvais for frontier towns under Hugues Capet, extended under Philippe Auguste to Auvergne, Mayenne, the Yonne, and the Somme; Saint Louis conquered Languedoc; Philippe le Bel, Champagne and the Lyonnais; and Philippe de Valois, Dauphiny. Already, at the same epoch, they coveted the episcopacies of Verdun and Metz, Luxemburg, Hainault, Namur, and other provinces of Flanders as far as the Rhine, and the Emperor Albert of |