The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1864-01-26
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wing. f',i' iil" .,a .N,a'i tsN'"l 0.il
'TisA .tadont, have quit. Is much Of the
rose look al elsewhere. '"Heaven deliver
Amcrica from German Universities "sis O.
prayer never prayed until I, Waited them.
But IL will be my most earnest petition the
rest Of tny life. A man who goes through
one CT theSe Kbstitution,. and comes out un.
corrupted in morals and religion, has bad o
narrower escape than the two mobiles at Prague,
who were thrown from window 80 feet from
the ground. andc got, up almost unbarmed
Their monument stands TO commemorate u cir
wonderful deliverance. The explanation giv-
en- Of il is tbst they fell on dung-beap.-'
Their preservation cf life was attended by
soiliug Of clothes and some unpleasant odors.
Aud 60, I imagine, il will be with those who
escape ruin ip. lt'tsse Universities. But /
will have many more facts 10 communicate.
and some more comments TO make hereafter.
| need not say that I have been disappointed,
l came with heI;gr. far better impressions
than shall carry back. I. do not thus write
from any III nature at incivi!ity; for every
where have met the most cordial greeting
from Librarians and Professors, and have on
ly pleasant memories OF fine libraries, splendid
museums and polite gentlemen. Blu. for high
intellectual culture alone, give me American
Colleges in preference 70 German Universi-
ties. Apdas to morale, they hav'nt any to
speak of. '.9y'f'7ih 2f'd 70, Z - 'aff''
NWe-and this means even more than two !;
for besides President Eaton of Madison Uni
vefsity, who is my travelling companion, there
were also seven other Americans in the com.
pany--Mr. Rich, President Of the Attica
Bank, Buffalo; and six other Buffalonians, in
cludipg Ms. Rich and their three SOUS
spent the afternoon on Wednesday in visiting
the Palaces, new and old, of the Bsvarisn
Kings. 1t was hard 10 tell which was the
most beautiful or luxurious, the old or the
new, In the latter, the I" Halls OF. beauty"
Of which there are two, contain the portraits
of thirty four Of the most beautiful women in
that have been found in Bavaria for tho last
thirty years. The painters have done them
justice. think have seen no portrait paint
ing in any Of the galleries or palaces that was
supsrior-perhaps none that was on the whole
equal 10 it. The throne room, containing
bronze statues Of twelve of the Bavarian kings
richly laid with gold, was superb. They
were 10 the new palaces. Jnltbe old the most
magnificent room is the he'd cbamber-made
for ornament not use. I'VE were told that
neither man nor woman had ever slept 10 the
bed.o When Napoleon waslord here he plac
ed his camp cot near the bed and slept on it..
The curtains might do TO sleep under, but
the 'spread" would not be comfortable
These a,e all of gold aud velvet; and. forty
persons spenta fifteen years in embroidsring
them, The expense would place them beyond
the means Of any of us--$3SOO O0O! Adjon.
ing this is the mirror room. The walls are Of
gold, carved work and mirrors. Two hun
dfsd and. seventy ak porcelain caude-sticka
are attached at various points. When lighted
up il must be brilliant indeed. Nextto that
is the room for miniature paintings and the
walls are orpsmented with xquisite and beau.
tiful paintings on copper overlaid. With glass.
This will dok Pardon me for 90 much at
tempted description Of these kipgly apart
mepts: 80 ample tha. they cover acres. Of
ground. =. go, .f,i.l,, ,..,, .,,, ,.,, sh
We will pass ou: now-through one. two,
three, four courts But stop a moment here
and look at that large dark colored stone, for
"thsreby hangs a tale" 1t weighs 364
pouncs, but this was once thrown to a, great
distance by the Duke Of Christopher in I4s0!
And these spikes il, tho wall--there are three
of them. The highest is IL feet from the
ground, the second OF. the third abopt7.--
The Duke struck the fyst point With bis bead
in some moment Of remarkable agility .---leapi
ing up to that fabulous height! Prince Con-
rad the second, and Prince Philippe the third
This was "grand and Jty tumbing' cariain-
lyk Course it ia all truey =, ...,, "a .,st F,
The great painter. Ksulback said by many
to be the 6rst living painter, has his, home
here. In company with resident Ameri
can, ! called 70. ace him ip bis Atelier."----
But he was absent from the city, superintend-
ing great work 10 the hall ofthe New Mu.
scum at Berlin, I have already referred TO
one Of hi, paintings. haye made four 6is-
tioct visits to that picture. 1t sa large one
I-perhaps fifteen feet square, as it haugs here.
It is transferred TO the Hall at Berlin, aud ia
there much larger. Henry Ward Beecher
was here lhis summer, and Mr. WINNER, who
has an extensive cstablishnent for the sale Of
pic uresHe pecially on porcelain informed
en- that before leaving GLASGOW. the disin.
guisbed clergyman sent an order to have this
picture copied on porcelain. The copy will
be about 20 BY &c iuches and is to cost $34O
in gold. admire his taste. That pi,ture
will preach nors eloquenly to those who
have eyes to see it, thsnev did the eloqnept
4 pastor Of Plymo;h church. was sorry to fail
Of seeing Kolback. s',iU ls3 Aga s'oe3b -
A Wait to the academy of atts occupied an
hour on Thursday .ic Here are many young
men studying painting and sculpture My
hour uas only sufficient for hasty look
Here are formed the clay figures Of thst which
is to be cast in bronze. n But there are ivari
ous steps in the process. First the clay im.
age is 10 be an exact imitation Of the original
Then plaster one formed around this one
then the clay dog out of the latter, and into
TIE mould thus loft plaster is poured, aud in
due time the shell is broken of, and the plss.
ter ore from which the grouss is cast ia before
you. snt 90 @ a'i 'eoII.gn iliaq Boa .
+ The standard ofsocial morality here a. 10
many. v not mosto pssts Of Germany, is far
irom elevated. 1t is said that three out Of es-
cry hundred know nothing Of their psterual
aucsstry--andr ,post Of them just as little ol
their maternal. There are not macy bomes
here according 70 our s,sndsrd of home life.
The wsn spend their oyepings iu tbs bear ss.
4 loous--ztbeif wivss 60 10 the opera or wher.
sves1tasy lists 60 home when they please, and
90 dortheir rhusbands ftom there ssloons at