The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-01-26
President Fairneld's Letter. {
SuNBKR FIVE.
MUNICH, Nov. 10, 1853.

| MS DeautifuI town, the Capital oi Davafia,
is situated upon the river Issr. Tbs country
seems a. first lookr,o be q perfect level but
il is really, sn. ipclinedS plsne--smooth and
gentle in iis slope. aud yet sufficiently inclined
to give the river a rapid motion. di q rd 81.
Allof your College readers, and perhaps
all the rest, have heard the splendid poem Of
Campbell so often repeated, that the flst lues
Of II awaken only a smile: a2sn % & sd p
Z. "Op Linden when the sun was low,
eac Al bl6odless lay the rntrodden snow:
And dark as winter was TIE flow -. r
| IN Or Issr rolling rapidly."eJ adi,jsfr
And another line will also recur 10 memo.
Try: eati'ea H.p 81 h'.i'si e - t'a
"wave Munich. all thy banners wave" ~
Here, then, is the place from which write.
Linden is few miles distant. The, poet has
made it immortal and for that reason ! should
! like to visit tho frot. But the bl9odless snow
is wet there now; and the other parts Of the
picture would re appear only 10 memory. So
shall forego that pleasure 10 the midst Of 90
macy things Of interest which are TO be seen
here. I... .t.u
Munich has population Of 100000. The
old wall has nearly all of it been removed, a
fow Of the gateways. only remaining, The
city has quite a modern look, and with its
broad streets and nume,ous little, parks scat.
tered, over it, as we'll as the large English
garden adjoining it, is. ono Of the most invi.
ting in Europe. In the distance arc seen the
Tyroese Alps, piled up against the horizon
and. ip clear day. they. stand cut 10 bold re
lief from what appears to be a c c'ntinnous in'
cliped plain, They are. really, twSn.y aye
miles distant, though appaTeptlg much less.
Here is bronze foundery Of some celebri
ty. Few hours OF grea! interest wsts spent
in visiting it. Many Of tha. models from
which castings have been made, are at III pre-.
served, and exhibited, to visitors. AMI. the
whole process, from first to. last ia shown to
you by the guide. .t'..@ =
4 America has been liberal patron of lbi,
establishment. The new doors Of the Capitol
az Washington, op which in 5qs relief are por.
trayed the chief scenes in the life Of Coum-
bus, were cast here, and it is only two month,
since they were sent away, Thew are scarce.
ly yet in, their. place; but will. probably be
when the new Congress meets. TIE statues
Of Jefferson. Patrick Henry, Mason mot the
late. Minister to EuglandD and john Mar
shall, as well as tho Equestrian statue o.
Washington, have all been cast hero, and nov
stand in Richmond. When our Northern
soldiers enter the city. they will fpd them.
and unless they should mistake the, third
mentioned for that of the traitor aud author
Of the Fugitive Slave Bill, they will not MAJ
or molest thtm. ..ii,o n se sl'ri3,,.,r .
i Clay's statue was made here also; Benton
is now going through the process, and Horace
Mann they have just commenced. r4! f.
But the greatest piece Of bronze that ha,
been done here or any where in the world
perhaps, is the colosssl statue Of &" Bavaria,
that stands just outside of this city. The
Kingdom is represented as a woman holding
a sword in her right hand aud in her upli9ted
left wreath. The attitude Of this figure il
very fine. /" Bavaria" is dressed 10 flowing
garments, and with fur tunc. At her side
stands the Bavarisn lion, also Of colossal size
the bronze figure is 81 fee: high TO the top o.
the woman's head, and GO feet to the top 81
the wreath that is bcld sloft. It stands npor
a granite pedestal which is twenty feet lsquare
aud 80 feet high. In the rear of it is bropzt
door, through which you pass up a fight o.
stairs to the top Of the pedestal: then auothe,
Of iron up the inside Of the figure to the head
Some idea may be had Of the sjze of thil
stature, when 7 TEN you that nine of our par
ty sat down on the inside Of the head; one o.
whom ambitiously enseonced himself inside o.
that part Of the head which represents the do
ing up Of her ladysbip's hair op the Crown. :
Seventy. weight tons Of metal were used il the
cssting, being for the most part cannons that
had been taken By the Bayarisps in ysfiou,
wars II was begun iu 1914, ard finished IL
Z 1850. The total cost, aside from the yedes
tai, was a little less than 100000. In the
foundry you aro shown the place in which j
was cast. 'r' 9ed o .la Hetd 81
Brouze monuments abuond 10 this city,
On Carolinian plats stands an obeisk 90 fee,
high, made also ofcsptured cannon. This is il
memory of 0,000 Bavarians who fell il the
war against the Russians. Kings, Poets, His
torians and artists have statues in the street,
and little open squares. That of Schiller es
pecially Interested me. At Wcimar, where
he and Goethe are both buried 10 the R3ya
Mausoleum, they have both also bronze stat
ues, standing 10 friendly attitude close 10 each
other. Among all their faults, envy anc
jealousy were not Herdee and Vicland bav,
also their statues at Weimar.o The whole
!, were cast here. ,'ta4fa q. a ftai' 90. 1
The gallery Of sculpture here is superior Il
that at Dresden--tbe paintings as Who'll,
scarcely equal. There are fsw here howey
er Of great excallencs. Kaulbscks painting
of the destruction Of Jerusalem is immortal
An unfinished painting representing the food
by another hand that lost its cunniog befor,
his work was done, is also one " great power
Either Of these are more impressive than any
sennon could possibly be, upon the same sub
jects. bsF 30 iH'uf'iti o'os .
u Toe Royal Library is one Of the largest i
the worh-embracing 400. 900 volumes, anc
22, 600 manuscripts. Some of the latter an!
! a few Of the former are very rare and remark
able. A "gold book" of the 9Th century,
manuscr'pt Of course-so called on account o
It's rich binding, is surpassed BY noihiug tha
! have seen eIaswhsre.' The cover u yicbl,
orus pented with precious ston s-onc cap
pbire alone being worth $I2 900 gold cusreu
cy, and the whole volume not less than IL 90
coo, probably. This To- the umests valuabl'
} book 1 bave any where found Il would eosI
our College Societies some dbbds to fill thei
} shelvcs after this style. The old iQwsinote,
. tmaDwcript volumes here, as also at iDresdeu
} arc rich and beautiful beyond descrifiion.--
The building containing the Library L in th