St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-19

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rlous workmanship of these cliffs ant
fells must needs compel interest; bu
when one sees the castle-crowned sum-
mlts, the vineyard terraces, the village,
that fringe the narrow shore, or nestle
in the crannies of the rocks, and re-
members that here has been the battle.
ground of Europe from Caesar to Ma.
poleon that almost every inch of sol
is enshrined in song and story, and thai
every name is a memorial, he canno
but feel that there is not in the WORLD
another stream to be compared will
this, save, perhaps, the Jordan, We
hope before the winter to see it AGAR
and know it better.
Our next tarrying for much time wal
at Worms, city famous for its diet il
regard to Luther, and which appears t.
have rested on that fame, Or to have
dieted, as the Grahamites used to say
ever since. The population of this city
is only one-fouTth of what it was in it,
palmiest days, and aside from its an.
tiqueness and exceeding quiet, there
are but two things to attract the stran,
ger the old Romanesque church dating
back to 1900, and the memorial in the
public square to Luther. The latter
completed in 1868, consists of base and
pedestals of granite, surmounted in the
center by bronze statue of Luther, II
feet in height. In his left hand he
holds a Bible on which rests, en-
phatically, his right hand, while his
face looks upward as if he were appeal
ing to heaven for assurance of faith in
the book. At the corners of the pedes-
tai, and the sides of the base are the
figures, also in bronze, of eight of the
foremost spirits of the reformation
Huss, Savonarola, Wickliffe, Peter Wal
do, Melancthon, Reuchlin, Philip of
Hessen, and Frederick the wise of
Saxony.
Two or three hours suffices here, and
we hasten to Heidelberg, celebrated for
its delightful situation at the opening
of the valley of the Neckar into that of
the Rhine, for its university and its
castle. The last presents some fine re-
mains of Renaissance architecture, and
has in its cellar a wine cask of some
slight note and size-holding only 5O,-
600 gallons. We felt like execrating
the French for their ruin of so fine a
place, and wished, for the moment,
that the feudal times might come again
to restore what in its best days must
have been one of the noblest fortresses
of Germany.
Passing on to Frankfort, where we
spent night and parts of two days, we
are specially interested in the evident
enterprise and thrift of this prosperous
and modern city in the memorials to
Goethe, Schiller, and the tyro printers,
Faust, Gutenberg, and Schoeffer, and
in the exceeding beauty of its Palm
Garden. All the country about, and.
particularly as we journey northeast
ward to Weimar and Leipsic, is very
attractive at this harvest season. No
other German city has had the peculiar
charm for US that invests Weimar.
Here lived for longer or shorter periods,
here died and were buried Goethe,
Schiller, Wieland, and Herder. Here
all have monuments, and here are shown
the houses where each lived. The re-
mains of the first two rest side by side
in Oaken collins in the Royal vault of
the Dukes of rx-Weimar, and their
statues are on the same pedestal in one
of the public squares. Some of the old
churches here are full of interest, there
is a new museum adorned with mural
paintings illustrating the wanderings of
Ulysses, by Cranach, and hard by is a
fine memorial of Scotch granite in honor
of the soldiers of Weimar who persisted
in the late Franco-Prussian war.
Leipsic, whose book trade and whose
fairs are of worldwide fame, has a
beautiful park in the midst of the city.
Some quaint old buildings and many
fine new ones, and its Art Gallery has
few good pictures mostly modern,
among the best of which were a sheep
fold and a storm by Verboeckhoven,
and portrait of Napoleon [, by Paul
Delaroche.
Dresden kept us four days. The first
thing here, of course, is the Picture
Gallery with its Madonna di San Sisto
by Raphael, and many other good
paintings but none that compare at
all with that. The best of the others
are the Madonna with Saints by Bagna-
cavallo, Guido RENTS Semiranius. Cor
reygio's Madonna with st. Francis, and
the Holy Night, Durer's Crucifxion,
and portraits by Rembrandt and Hol-
bein. The Green vaults of the palace,
with their jewels and wonderful cary
ings in ivory and wood the collection
of porcelains and china from every
quarter of the globe; the relics of the
middle ages in the historical collection !;
the sculpture, and casts and minerals,
all were seen though more hastily than
we could wish. A trip down the Elbe
to Nielsen, visit one evening to Bruhl
Terrace, and another to the Great Gar
den or park of three hundred acres,-
at both of which places we heard fine
music,-and little outings to picture
shops, the markets, and the churches,