New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-07-27

ceive tributes from the principalities ana power
of the world. A poor devil Of Christian eie' :,
sits there alone on Saturdays, to deal OUT s'iian
sums TO travellers and Others on letters oil credt'
etc.
Jews settled in Fran kfort under some imperfect
dearly paid protection Of the German Empefors
as early as the twelfth century. In I5's tneir
wretched habitations were set fire to by religious
fanatics, calei Flagelants. In 1862 they built In
the present Judengdsse, or New-Egpt, as IL Is
sometimes named Fire came upon them yet
again in I'LL. roughly translate brief account
of the last confagration, as illustrative oil the
spirit of that time Meanwhile, all the houses
were burned up stock and branch, and indeed IN
such wise that not single one Of so many houses,
nav, not so much as a stick Of wood OF an arm
length remained, which is surely marvellous. 1t
was remarkable, also, that when one side of the
street was burned down, the wind turned about
as though it had finished there the business on
which il was sent, and would now carry it on fur
ther: go that by this the other and greater part
of the street was seized on by the FIRE and LAID IN
ashes. The FIRE broke out almost in the middle oil
the street, in the house of the RABBI Naphthali,
their most famous Doctor. Ii is related for GER
tain truth. that when their Rabbi, who was be-
sides good Cabalist, was minded to teach his
scholars the Cabala and had kndled for expert
ment q great heap Of wood in his house, he be-
came confused in his incantation and in place of
conuring the water-spirt to extlDguish the flre
kindled by him. called up the fire. spirits. Where
fore it was altogether in vain to try to save the
smallest Jewish building. This is also to be con-
sidered in this conhagration, that Of the many
Christian houses near by, not single one was
consumed" Seeing on one side this account,
written about one hundred years, and the perse-
cutons and expressions under which the Jews
existed until the close Of the last century and
seeing on the other side the friendly terms on
which Jews and Catholics and Protestants now
live and work together here, one would say the
world had made progress. More, however, is to
be made. Some additional measure ofjustice was
dealt out to the Jews in the Revolution OF 1913
but they are not yet admitted to full political
equality with the Christian citizens of Frankfort.
Just at this time the question OF revising the
constitution of the city is much discussed, and
some propose, as one OF the alterations, the adj
missibility Of Jews to the Senate. With the pre-
sent reactionary spirit of the German powers, it
would seem, however, dangerous time to at
tempt revision; the attempt at change to some
thing better might easily result in a change to
something worse, forced on from without.
The old city is rich in historical associations
They cluster about the gloomy old Saalhot on the
site of which Charlemagne in the year I9l pre-
sided over an assembly of the bishops and gran
dees of his Empire Sachse nhause, just across the
Main. was peopled under his orders by colony Of
conquered SaxOns whom he had ChrIstlanlzed IN
his fierce way His statue standsupon the bridge
which their descendants, now mostly gardeners and
winners, cross in coming to the city. will say
nothing of the R0mer where the German EmperOrs
were crowned, nor Of the square in front Of it, the
Romerberg, referring all who are not yet familiar
with il to Goethe's admirable description of the
coronation ceremonies and popular entertainments
which had place there. Many other facts of his
autobiography NAV be read with increased interest
among the scenes of his boyhood, changed as they
are since his time. His fathers house, in the re-
building of which he almost makes us assist by
the magic of his style, remains unaltered. On its
front is a marble tabt with the inscription, " Here
was born Ohm Wolfgang Goethe, Is August 49,"
A colossal image of him by Schwanthaler is erect
ed in the square called the ROssmarkt. Another
in marble of life size representing him in a sitting
posture, is placed in the City Library a work of
high merit, by Marchesi, an italian artist
Several hospitals, museum OF natural history,
and a number of collections of art, private
and public testify to the generous disposition and
liberal tastes of the Frankforters. Thus, citizen
Studel, dying in 1916, left to the city his cabinet
of paintings and engravings, together with his
houses and 100000 guilders, (say $500 000) for
the foundation off Art-Instltute which goes by
his name. Among the celebrated modern works
in this gallery are Oyerbeck's Triumph Of Chris
ti0ntty in the Arts too pedantically symbolic, and
only to be understood by first reading long exc
gesis-tw0 master pieces of Lessing and other fine
specimens of the Dusseldorf school, This collec-
tion is free to all visitors. The Bethmann Muse
um s, by the liberalty of it's owner equally access
sible. Ii is collection of casts from the antique.
But more attractive than these is the SURPRISING
beauty OF DaRneckers marble group-Ariadne, the
bride of Bacchus, half sitting half reclined upon
panther, and almost riding past you IN glad tri-
umph. In holiness of conception and grace OF
execution this masterpiece has few rivals IN
modern sculpture. 1t is placed, With the copies
just mentioned, in small building in the garden OF
Herr ven Bethmann. Not even porter stands at
the garden gate to watch your entrance. do
nestle is in attendance only to show the coec
ton, not one of the vexatious hand organ species,
that grinds out to your vexation an unpunctuated
catalogue rdtsOnn6 ofthe objects before you, but
quiet, civil man, whose commendable taciturnity
you reward with few kreutzers. The amount of
the fee, or the giving at all, is optional with the
visitor. The fine series of imperial portraits late.
ly placed on the walls of the great dining hall in
the R0mer is extremely interesting, in an histori-
cal as well as artistic point ofvew. 1t commences
with Charemagne "a. ID. 1861 and closes with
Francis III, "A. ID. 1872, the ffty-secOnd and last
crowned Emperor of the Holy German Empire.
Beneath the lkenesses of these princes are their
chosen notices, generally expressing some vir-
tuous maxim or principle, with which the prac-
tice Of their lives stands in sorry contrast. The
paintings are the productions of thirty-ive differ
ent German artists. Apart by itself, but in the
same hall, and as an appendix to the series, his
plain citizens dress in singular contrast with the
coronation robes of the others, hangs the portrat
of Arch. Duke John, Of Austria, Reichweiweser,
or Admins traitor of the Realm under the short
lived Constitution OF 1919. But this is coming %
the very brink of historico political paragraph,
which escape by a turn through the streets.
Though they have now been shone on for a
week by July sun, they are neither dusty nor
illordered. They are clean.swept early in the
morning, and sometimes again in the course Of
the day ard yet Frankfort is eminently busy,
business city. There is another audable custom
here, OF" early closing Four ffths of the shops
are shut by o'clock, while at this season it is
yet broad daylight. | do not Learn that shop
owners or customers suffer by this daily vacation