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tains an appeal to arms against the
Turks. Here also is Luther's Bible
decorated with his own and Me-
lancthon's portraits. Another mann
script volume contains a collection
Of church-traditions from Ravenns,
written on papyrus about a. D. $50.
lhe grafton of Demosthenes, on cot
ten paper, from Chios, in a volume
supposed to date back to the COM
mencement of the Christian era.
The structure which contains this
vast library is a magnificent build
ing, and is capable of containing.
when it is completely filled, another
million of volumes. At the front
entrance stands statues of Aristotle
HipPocrates, Homer, and Thucy-
dides.
THE NATIONAL MUSEUM
Is one of the most remarkable of
Ludwig's achievements. The build
ing Is an enormous structure, 474
feet long by $50 broad, and 95 feet
high. 1t is filed from basement to
garret with every imaginable curl
osity of Art and Nature, ancient
and modern. The walls are covered
with historical paintings, several
hundreds in number-some of them
of immense size-and which are works
of very considerable merit. Near
the front entrance, among multi
tude of military trophies, is a brass
24pounder cannon, taken from the
French at the siege of Strasbourg In
1860, which has seventeen severe
sears on 1t, four of them squarely
on the muzzle, caused by cline
shots" from Bavarian siege battery
The contents of this National Muse
um constitute a most remarkable
collection.
But the most extensive of all King
Ludwig's works is
vALHALLA,
Or "Temple of Fame for GERMANY
erected near Ratisbon, in the north
east of Bavaria, on an eminence or
bluff overlooking the Danube, for
long distance; and a wide expanse of
country. This temple is almost a
fac-simile of the famous Parthenon
of Athens. 1t follows the same Dor
ic style In architecture, and diff
fers chiefly in the materials of the
| pillars, which are not of marble but
consist of blocks of white limestone
closely resembling marble in texture
and quality. The ValhaIla is 2I8
feetlong by 1O2 broad; the shafts of
the columns are 80 feet long, and the
height of the pediment is so feet.
These are almost exactly the
measurements of the Athenian
Temple. The Valhalla is approach
ed by cyclopian flights of stone up
three terraces, the upper one being
100 feet high, and the other two
not much less.
In this Temple of Fame Ludwig
placed statues and busts of
ALLTHE WORTHLESS OF GERMANY,
from Arminius, who defeated the
Roman legions in a great battle down
to Blucher and Schwartzenberg, who
gave Napoleon so much trouble.
All the greatest heroes, statesmen,
sages, poets, historians, orators,
scholars, scientists, artists, musi-
clans, ETC., which Germany had pro-
duced since Christ's time to the
present generation, have their busts
or statues in this Temple of Fame.
The chief sculptors of Germany were
employed for many years in decora-
ting the Valhalla and filling It's
inches with marble representatives
of Deutschland's great men. The
work was continued by Maximilian
after his fathers death, and can vet
scarcely yet be called complete. 1t
was au exceedingly bold and ambi-
tious undertaking on the part ofa
King of a small nation; but of
course he received aid and assistance
from all parts of Germany, else he
could never have carried out his
/ plans with the seanty means under
his control.
Ludwig was
4 VERY REMARKABLE MAN.
and had he ruled over some CONNER
cial nation, his access to other parts
of the world, his fame would be
vastly greater. But he was buried
away ont of sight in Central Europe,
and attracted but little attention
abroad; however, he illustrated to
the fullest extent the truth of the
assertion, "Peaee hath her triumphs
as well as war" Had he been En-
peror of Germany with the resources
of the Empire at his command, he
would have achieved the reputation
of being the greatest patron and
most liberal promoter of the useful
rs well as ornamental arts, of litera-
ture, music, and science, that ever
wore a crown, and would have gone
down to an admiring posterity. as
Ludwig the Magnificent. {"
If space permitted, should like
to describe what saw in the curl
Gus and interesting old
PROTESTANT CITY OF NUREMBERG
situated in the northern part of Ba-
varia, and containing about 10000
inhabitants, of which $1,000 are
Protestants; the city which manu-
factures nearly all the lead-peneils
and all the children's toys purchased
in Europe and America; the city
which changed its religious connect
ions and its creed almost in a day,
by common, spontaneous, univer-
sal impulse, in which priests and
CONGREGATIONS espoused the Refor-
nation en- maSSe, and for nearly 400
wears continued to be stanch Protest.
ants. They sull worship in the an
cient Catholic churches and cathe-
dr,lls which their fathers had built
centuries before Luther's time, and
they have removed nothing there
from. No iconoclaSm was praeticed.
The identical old pious pictures still
adorn the walls and Gothic windows;
the sculptured Crucifixion scenes vet
remain; the pictures and images of
the Virgin and Infant are untouch-
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