The Schleswig-Holstein affair, we are assured for the twentieth time,
is settled; and some sanguine persons believe the report for the twentieth time. It may be correct, but how is one to tell ? Prussia and Denmark have agreed ; and Prussia is " Germany " in that behalf, by courtesy. Still it is difficult to understand that a due appearance can have been recorded for that multifa- rious and mutable litigant. And there are other sources of doubt : such quarrels as that of Schleswig-Holstein, which involve ques- tions of race and political sympathy, are not to be settled by sti- pulation: yet we observe no change in the elements of the active political chemistry in that quarter—no sign that Schleswig-Ho'.
stein has been effectively cut off from the stormy future, which threatens, for some time to come, a changeful fate for Germany and her cognates.
