The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-10-10
Correspondents.
QUE GERM Letter.
s.sc,aI Correspondence Jea.nou.au.


country ab unds Win fac scsner
aDd DresGel is iul! II SIT Tarouc
TIE country / have travelled Oh TOO
A proof Oi good wElkir ~ ave wor
new pair oi solid scles f ny boot
am row just back one hour in Drei
den, and fesi very tired aud stiff 2
another proof. BuG ! forget all thi
in The beauties | have seen, an
WARN With my subject Dresce
lies in tie valley Of the EIlJe, jast i
The beginning oi that most pictu
retqGe district called Saxon Swi'zer
land. This part Of Germany is b.
lar tie most fascinating AID attracts
msny visitors through the last of tn
sUmmer, though they are mostly
gone now. Saxon SwIlzerlsHd II
about twenty-five miles square, ex-
terGing over into the Austrian En-
pire. Itincludes the finest part q
the Lusation DcuntaiDs. The dis
t.ict is intersee;ed by the river itibe,
which crawls through the hills yery
snske-like. The mountains are
mostly cOnposci q sand slone-
Time has d!siltegra."d the softer
strata and lett hills, rocks, peaks,
,Dountains sni chssms o. The most
erotesque shepe5. One single rock,
standing upon very small bsse, is
$50 feet high. One peak is l77l feet
high, while many reach more than
fhousard. In among tEcse aye caves
and splinge, and many kite vailies
with streams Of crystal water. and
here and. there village OF peaEaniry,
whose faces speak thus "Sir, l ala
q true leborer; earn that | eat, get
that wesr, owe no nan hate, eEjoy
Iogman's- happiness, glad OF other
nen's good, ceutenl with ny hoipcb
Oce OF he beauties Q. tL.s region
of mountains Is that ii is iLhaii.ed
and not wild AID desols.c. The
traveller does not feel, when he gcts
here, as though he Was in farrcu
waste Of rocks and aounl&!Us, bui
as though lie Was hot only viewing
the coLsummate works Of nature,
but among people whose habits,
though simple, Ire the habits Of men
whose hearts are much larger than
common mems. This came simplici-
ty, moJie simplicity, which in the
mountains is in lis original purity, |
though somewhat @citiiied," is Ill !
through Saxony and in its capital |
Tnore is such hearty good welcome
no these words are rot etTong |
enough-I cannot express what it Is
unless in this wsy : There is such
confidence and freedom in converse
ton so much from the heart in eve
ry thing they cay or do, that | often
forget, and involuu,ariiy say to
pyself II 4q a. Honas.'' HanoYsr
boasts ofspaaking the Puress Ger
man Hamburg Of being the greet
est commeIcill city; Leipsic oi being
the center Of the book trade AMI
fairs, and only second in commercial
importance 20 HamnuTg; Berlin OF
being the capital Of the Empire, the
seat of the Emperor and hesdquar-
ters of the army. But Dresden can
boast of what is far more, that oi
being the place where the traveller
foreets that he is only traveller, anu
thinks Himself, "a sweet decepticr) |
thinks himself at home.
But the principal interest of Dres
den must be attributed to its royal
collection OF ants. ia many respects
it is the best IN Germany, and even
rivals the finest in The world. Its
picture gallery is most magnificent
collection of principally original
works. 1t possesses works from the
haud Of TiIiau, CoFreggio, Guide,
REM. ard Rapbael's wonderful pro-
duciion OF "Mary and The child
Jesus" known as lfadORaG di SaE
iSisfo. L. contains enough Of the vo.
luptuous French aid Spanish. II
contains a great number of the very
fine and beautiful works Of the Duicb
Maesters. 1t possesses also praise
worthy collection from The Nelher
land Mesters. In all it is one Of the
finest, if not the best, galleries in the
world. You, who have never seen Il
royal collection OF art, have lad no
opportunity of forming en- idea OF
what it is; of course, then, you can
fully sympathize with me. To give
,ou little ides, 1 shall enumerate
as speedily ss possible. In The gal
lery of paintings there are 2,4OO
works distributed in twelve rooms.
In the collection of engravings there
are $50, 600 plates. In the collection
of casts there aye plasters OF sculpture
from the earliest Greek down 90 The
present; there are copies from sew
eral hundred works. Then there are
the Historicel Musedm (best in Ger
nany) Tie Natural Historical Muse
um. the Mineralogical Museum, Ply |
steal Mathematical Museum, tEo
collections CT antiquities, csbiuet of
coins, collections of porcelain, enc
others. From the nsmes, ard what
they comprise, you may safely sup
Dose that they include about .
million of objects 1t took me almoet
week to visit through them. There
ia a museum. called the Green Bank,
which is probably different from all
other museums in the world. 1t de
1iyes the first part of its name from
the colors of Ibe decorations in the
rooms, and the last from its position
1t is composed of eight rooms, filled
with works of art, curiosities, trink-
els. Jewels, etc. In the room contain
ing the ivory collection there is one
work of ninety-two figures, carved
from o single mass OF ivory, sixteen
inches in height. In the room ter
Mosaics there are ostrich eggs, shells,
coral, enamel, worked most beauii
fully. In another room gold and
silver plate, and ruby crystal. 10
another, agate, chalcedony, jasper,
cut stones, rock crystal, large globe
crystal, tepszes. porcelain, etc. In
another, the finest wax work. In the