Connecticut western news., 1885-04-01
BERLIN TO PARIS.
WRITTEN FOR THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN
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WRITTEN FOR THE CONNECTICUT WESTERN
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 DEAR NEWS :-I thank you for your welcome weekly visits and especially for your words of sympathy in this time of my grief. On February 8 we left the city of Vienna, which had been to me as beautiful as 8 dream till the shadows fell suddenly and it was night. In the darkness of that grief almost forgot at first that to my mother it meant 8 world where there is no more night. Hearts draw nearer in sorrow and I shall al- ways remember lovingly the lady of an other religion and another speech, whose eyes were full of tears as trying to com fort me she said in sweet German words, "We Jews believe the mothers are sad in heaven while the children always weep on earth. Do not make heaven sad to herr' This Jewish woman knew well what sorrow meant. She is widow and eleven of her children are dead. She too is longing for the other world and says she will be happy when she dies I used to look at her with wonder that she had kept through her many trials spirit so cheerful and 80 brave. She taught me more lessons than one, this Hungarian woman who wished for heav- en but kept the hearth-fres bright on earth. My farewell to her was the sad dest goodbye I have spoken since leav- ing my native land. Her hands were filled with pressed chicken, chocolate and the delectable Vienna cakes for our journey. We went away and left her in tears, but know her home and heart arc full of sunshine still.
 We had pleasant journey through Prague, Dresden, Leipsig and Halle, to Berlin, where we remained two weeks.
 While Dr Smith visited the hospitals. made the acquaintance of the celebrated Dr Koch and looked at cholera bacilIi through thousand-power lenses I visited the museums and galleries of art. The Royal museums, old and new, are cor. nected with each other by an upper hall way. They are fine buildings, situated on an island formed by an arm of the river Spree. On the same island are the Court cathedral, the old palace, the Ns- tional gallery and the Church of St Pe- ter. The old museum is richly adorned with columns, groups in bronze and frescoes. The Gallery of Antiquities, founded by Frederick the Great, con- sains about 1000 objects of the later Ro- man empire. The upper walls of the rotunda are hung with the celebrated tapestry woven at Brussels in 1515-1e from designs by Raphael The subjects are from the Acts of the Apostles and the Life of Christ.
 There are II rooms containing statu- ary. On the ground floor are the hbrar, and the cabinet of coins The latter con- tains 200, 900 specimens. On the seconC aoor is the picture gallery, which it noted for it's historical completeness in representing different schools and vari- ous ages Among the works of the earl, Netherlandish school there is large winged altar-piece, executed by the brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck, dat ing from 1426. and said to be the first, painting executed wholly in oils. I notic- ed pictures by Giotto, Verrocchio, Rapha. al, Fra Bartolommeo, Correggio, Titan. Tintoretto, Guido Reni, Holbein, Durer, Rubens, Van Dyck, Teniers the young ar, Rembrandt and Van der Nicer Thert is large Italian landscape by Claude Lorrain. It is very beautiful
 The New Museum is adorned with magnificent mural paintings. The first floor is devoted to a large collection of casts, arranged in 12 rooms. On the ground floor are Egyptian antiquities and Assynan sculptures. Here are num- mics, sarcophagi and tombs of the an cient Egyptian kingdom. They are cov- cred with hieroglyphics and date be- tween 20O0 and 5000 years before Christ. One court is arranged to represent the principal features of an Egyptian tenn ple. The centre is occupied ny colos- sal figure of King Horus. The figure of Ramses IT. is entirely uniniured. The figure of Usortesen l., B. c. 2000, con- sists of reunited fragments. The New Museum also contains cabinet of en- cravings and an antiquarium. In the latter is one of the largest and most val uable cameos in the world. It measures nine by seven and one-haf inches and represents the Apotheosis of SeptimiuA Severus. The National Gallery IS a beautiful building in the form of Cor inthian temple, situated in the centre of a square surrounded by doric colonnades and embellished with statues. The paintings and the statuary are very fine. There is & large picture of Huss at the stake. There are two pictures repre- senting Frederick the Great in his pal ace of Sans Souci. The picture of Ma poleon's Retreat from Moscow is very effective. There is a large picture of Huss, preaching. There are paintings of the unfortunate princes, sons of Ed ward Iv., snatched from their mother and smothered in the Tower. In the Cupola saloon are full-length, life-size portraits of the present emperor and em- press of Germany. The emperor has fine and very attractive face. It is the beauty of hoary hair and ripened years.
 A very effective picture is called ''The Procession of Death" It is long pro- cession led by Death. The young and the old, the willing and the unwilling are there. A weeping girl tells her lover farewell. A forgotten beggar by the r-w~:lo ax4onda imp1orin0 hoDaa ;o