Ancient Germany, excluding from its independent limits the province weſtward of the Rhine, which had ſubmitted to the Roman yoke, extended itſelf over a third part of Europe. Almoſt the whole of modern Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Livonia, Pruſſia, and the greater part of Poland, were peopled by the various tribes of one great nation, whoſe complexion, manners, and language, denoted a common origin and preſerved a ſtriking reſemblance.

The frolick wind that breathes the Spring, Zephyr with Aurora playing, As he met her once a Maying There on Beds of Violets blew,

So then the whole scripture of God, being true, whence soever this be delivered and gathered, it skilleth not […]

Although Mr. Lippmann's views on foreign and national affairs are familiar to regular readers of his syndicated newspaper column, and also to those who follow his books, it was a considerable novelty to have the Lippmann perspective on a TV summit, as it were, ranging rapidly and broadly over the substance of a monthful of columns.