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BERLIN.
Berlin

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BERLIN.
The Museum is one Of the great attractions
Of Berlin. Its collections Of paintings and
sculptures and antiquities is very remarkable
and every way worthy of great. furnishing
and famous kingdom. Such great national
museums, established AMI kept up by the
Government are, in my judgment, among the
most interesting and useful surroundings of
a great metropolis. They are of higher
order and Of a different class from the multi
farious little curiosity shops which private
enterprise establishes for the qualification
the vulgar and curious, (admission twenty
five cents, children halfprice), in the cities
of our country made attractive by oddities,
novelties and monstrOsities In these great
national collections, profound science, high
art, historical and antiquarian learning unite
with natural history in gratifying the curl
osity of cultivated minds, and in adding to
the stock of useful knowledge the practical
teachings of all ages and countries, in one
great school. have no where been so much
struck with this as in this vast museum.
You are struck as you are about to enter
it with the great vase of polished granite
which stands upon the left of the entrance
1t is twenty-five feet in diameter-made
from an enormous boulder brought from
about thirty miles distant. and cut
and polished here by steam power
On the right Of the steps is the original
of the mounted amazon attacked bya tiger
by Kiss, OF which copies are now so common
The grand colonnades of the front are frescoed
in myths and allegories in the highest style
of modern art, by Cornelius and Schinkel
and within the walls every thing is on scale
of great ailluence a collection of 1000 vases,
gems (2oO0 and upwards; a large collection
of the household gods of Rome; and arms
and armor, domestic and warike imple-
ments. The collection of sculptures, in their
arrangement and in the approach to them
produces striking effect, beyond the merits
Of the individual works. The picture gallery
is exceedingly large, should rather say, is
exceedingly numerous, for it is divided by
screens hung full Of paintings, into a very
large number of small galleries. The num-
her of pictures | have forgotten it is very
great, and one is almost bewildered in mov-
ing about in search Of the few great works of
the first class in each of the great schools of
art, according to which they are classified
Passing on into the New Museum. we find its
northern antiquities (Sclavonic and Teuton-
icy, its chronological Collection, and its vast
collection Of Egyptian antiquities, to be Of
wonderful interest Other portions of the
New Museum are not yet finished for occu-
pancy When the whole is finished and fur
nshed, may be there to see
When shall be seen such collections in
our great democratic metropolis? Never till
the people shall learn that it is for their in
terest and for the interest OF the city-in
pecuniary point Of view, to say nothing of
municipal pride and national glory-and
therefore the duty Of the authorities, thus
to collect great and worthy objects of attrac-
ton and of intelligent qualification in the
great centres of popular resort There can
be no wiser or better, or more economical use
of a reasonable amount of the funds raised
for the common benefit. nor one more ac-
ceptable to the people.
The public gardens-the winter gardens
are great coffee houses under glass, houses
filled with choice plants and howers--with
fine dinners, choice music, and everything to
make them agreeable, fashionable, and intel
ligent places of resort. Kroll's winter gar
den is the largest, and the only one we visit
ed, The building contains dining and
concert hall 1886 feet long and about 100
wide, besides theatre, reading room, &c
1t is in the great park of $50 acres. In the
summer time. there and in many other gar
dens, the people lounge and take their re-
freshments about the garden, The confec-
toner's shops, the restaurants and the wine
and beer houses are also thronged places for
Longing and refreshments. Socality-beer
drinking, wine drinking, smoking and music
are the characteristic enjoyments Of the dali
~ life of the Berliners
The gorseousness and luxury of the Royal
Palace exceeded anything of the kind which
we have yet seen. Its gold and silver and
precious stones, its rich embroideries and ia
pestres, its lofty frescoed ceilings and its
furniture of untold cost seemed to come up
to our republican notions of what was to be
expected in royal palaces in the prouicst
and richest empires, The Palace is 400
feet long, ard 27G in breadth intended
TO have wandered through the halls OF
the University, ut present the most dIstin-
gnished in Europe, with its ninety professors
and 1900 students and to have learned on
the spot the details OF its management and
instructions. did not however find time
even to ensr it, 50 pressing were the calls
that hurried me forward without sufficient
look at the beautiful city of the great elcctor
Frederick William and of Frederick the
Great
Yours, +, {,
ALL RIGnT AGAIN.-rhe autograph and