The Ertzgebirge, ye need not explore there, If wine ye would behold; Thüce spring but silver and the cobalt ore there, And mischief-making gold. Thüringia's mountains, for example, bringing, A growth which looks like wine, But it is not; o'er that there is no singing, No glad eyes round it shine. The Blocksberg is the lengthy Sir Philister, As windy and as drear; Dance the cuckoo and his wild sacrister, Upon him here and there. The Rhine! the Rhine! 'tis there our vines are growing! O blessed be the Rhine! The slopes by which that noble stream is flowing They give this precious wine. So drink! so drink! let us all methods trying, For joyous hours combine. And if we knew where one in wo were lying We'd give him of this wine! CHAPTER XIII. GENERAL SYSTEM OF GERMAN EDUCATION. All our educational institutions form, of many members, an existing ring, which embraces the inhabitants of Germany so thoroughly, that every one of them must, according to his station and capacity, receive the benefit of a humane education. The university beams on this ring like a noble jewel set in gold, and while it closes the ring, as the noblest member of the whole, it touches again on the commencing portion, over which its beneficent splendour shall be diffused. So Mr. Traveller regarded these institutions, and regarded them therefore with approval and admiration. Von Kronen, who had already delivered to him a short history of the universities, promised to give him a brief notice of the general German educational system, which he had prepared, at another opportunity:--and here it is.