Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-06-18

reasons why the city grows more ana
more into favor as its parts are seen. In
deed, he who visits every part of the city
will find in some localities also pleasing
variations from the monotonous style OF
private residences above mentioned.
The chief interest of the Bavarian cap
ital. however, centers in her art collecy
tions. Precisely in this province is the
pen least capable of suggesting her charm.
The products of genius in the realms OF
art find in the same departments few
even tolerably faithful lmitators. Much
less could it be hoped to translate them
into language. A few general remarks
must. therefore, suffice The Old Pima
kothek Repository of Pictures, in Creek,
800 feet long, 80 feet wide and W feet
high, is the most popular of all the mu-
seums. On the ground floor are two col
lections: LIST. A Cabinet of Engravings,
over 300, 600 in number, and Cabinet OF
Drawings, %, 900 in number; and, I'd,
Cabinet of Vases comprising about l,3Oo
Grecian and Egyptian specimens. The
second floor, divided into II rooms ana
% cabinets. contains over l. 400 paintings
bv old Masters. In this fine collection of
pictures-much the finest in Germany,
the Dresden Gallery alone eXccpted-near-
" all of the earlier schools, Italian,
Netherlandish. German, French and
Spanish. are well represented. 1t con-
tains no modern pictures. The new Pin
akothek. which is about two-thirdS as
large as the old Pinakothek and stands
near by it, contains, on the second ioor'
$50 modern paintings mostly by Munich
Masters. On the first floor is "A collection
of brilliant paintings on porcelain, ana
an Antiquarian which contains smaller
Greek, Roman and Egyptian antiquities
and some excellent cork and plaster mod
els of such historic structures as the Fan
theon. Coliseum and Temple of NeSta at
Rome. the house of Sallust at Pompeii,
and the Temp g of Vesta at Tivoli. The
handsome Glyptothek depository OF
| Sculptures), before mentioned, contains
a rare collection of ancient sculptures,
Assyrian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman. Two
pediment groups in marble from lem
ple of Minerva in the Island of Aegina,
which, consisting respectively OF i've ana
ten figures, represent scenes from the
Graces-Trojan War, appeal in an extra
ordinary degree to the beholder, eSpecl-
allv to him who has read the Epics OF
Homer and Virgil The artistic concep-
tions of many modern masters-among
them Schadow. Rauch. ThOrwaldsen,
Dannecker. Wolf. Busch-are there en-
bodied in numerous bronze and marble
specimens
The Setback Picture Gallery, bequeath-
ed by its owner, Count Won Setback, at
his death in 1891, to the German Emper-
or. and subsequently by the Emperor to
the city of Munich, is, as collection OF
modern works by German masters, per-
feet gem. Gcnelli, SChwind, Fenerbach'
! Boecklin and LembaCh are there proOa-
blv better than in any other single col
lection represented. The Art Exhibition
Building. already mentioned. contains a
narmanept exhibition Of works by Mu-
Mich artists. most Of which are for sale.
All these collections are in the immediate
vicinity of Kings Square. The interest
ing studio of Lembach, who is the best
known living German artist, in his ele-
| CANT residence in the same locality, is
also omen daily to visitors. The huge Ba-
varian National Museum on Macmillan
street contains probably millions of select
objects. Illustrative of the progress OF
civilization and art The Royal Palace
contains many valuable pictures. Some
twenty-odd additional collections, which
cannot be even named here, represent
almost every department of art. science
and industry.
Music. too. is sedulously cultivated,
The Royal Opera House, one ofthe largest
in Europe. is usually conceded the honor
of having the best opera in musical Ger
many. The opera is, of course, subsi-
died by the Bavarian court. Each Eu-
ropean capital. including even the small
er German provincial capitals, has an
opera and theater subsidized by the
court of the country or province. In Mu-
Mich many concerts and musical enter
tainments of various kinds in worthy
manner supplement the opera.
Munich is. on this continent, perhaps
more generally, and, among certain class
es. more favorably known for the excel
lence of its beer than for that of its art
collections Certain it is that, among
its own citizens, excepting the select
few, the beer interests are better known
and more faithfully patroniZed. Beer is
the staple product of the city. There
must be at least twenty or thirty brew
cries. Some brew almost exclusively
for export to other places. Some find
their entire product consumed at home
and without protection The MAORI
ty brew for both home consumption and
export. Oddly colored cars are in that
vicinity much more numerous than Ar
mour refrigeratorS in the vicinity of
Chicago. The most of the breweries are
provided with extensive apartments sur
rounded by thick walls and furnished
with numerous tables and chairs OF
benches. Such an establishment is called
Bier Keller Cellar. The usual adj
iunctS of a Keller are rack containing
a thousand or so one-liter almost quart,
earthenware mugs, water trough into
which fresh stream constantly flows
for washing the mugs, small compart'
ment in which two men fill the mugs,
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