New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-06

queathed to the museum by the late Barthoid
Schlesinger. Of Brookline.
The figure of a Swiss lansquenet, a portion Of
fountain at Schaffhausen on the Rhine Is the
gift Of the Swiss government, made through Dr.
rector Heinrich Angst, of the Swiss National
Museum at Zurich, lately made doctor Of Laws
by Harvard Several other statues included IN
the collection were purchased through tia
Schlesinger bequest Among these is a large
unette in high relief, representing the death Of
the Virgin taken from the original IN the cathe-
dral at Strasburg, and a reproduction Of the
figure Of Emperor Macmillan taken from his
tomb in Hofkirche. Innsbruck
To Professor Kuno Francke. curator OF the
Germanic Museum, is due not only the practical
establishment of the museum, but the credit Of
securing for the institution the majority Of the
fine specimens OF German art adjoining it
Through the efforts of Professor Francke many
German artists. scientists and capitalists OF note
have been interested in the museum. and a
result it was decided some time ago to prepare
a collection Of copies of the best work of Ger
man goIdsmiths and silTersmiths from the if
teenth to the eighteenth centuries, for ulustra-
ton limitations Of forty-five cups OF various
designs, basins and dishes have been made By
an electroplating process, and will be sent to
Harvard as a part Of the Germanic collection
copies that only an expert can tell them apart.
This collection Of about thirty-fve large and
twenty smaller pieces includes &C. les Of the best
work Of the workers of precious metals in Nu-
remberg and Augsburg during the period men
toned.
Emperor William gave permission for the re-
produc Of several OF the finest pieces in his
collection, including the so-caIled Emperor's cup
Of the sixteenth century by Wenzel Jarnitzer. OF
Nuremberg. Copies of the treasures Of the
kings of Wurtemberg and Saxony are also in
cludl in the collection. Among the famous
cups copied are the so-caIIed Observation-Disclosures
cup, from the museum Of Gratz. the Luther
cup, which was presented to the reformer. on
the occasion Of his marriage, by the Wittenberg
town council and the sO-caIed CoTvinus cup,
which was presented to the Vienna council IN
1862 by King Corvinus of Hungary.
These gifts to the university illustrative Of
Gerrnanic art have been supplemented by a
gift Of ten thousand books the History Of
Germany and German civilization, made by
Professor Archibald Cary Coolidge as a memo
rial Of the visit to the diversity by Prince
Henry OF Prussia in 1902.
\ museum Of just the scope Of the GermanIc
Museum at Harvard does not exist anywhere
else in this country. Nor does a single one even
Of the German universities possess 4 similar
equipment. The educational Importance Of this
undertaking. therefore. cannot easily be over
estimated. Curator FraHcke says of the new
museum: This institution is not German
museum; it is Germauic museum II IS 10
bring together representative monuments q the
Cieruaric past on English. Dutch. Scandinavian
Swiss ana Austrian soil. as well as Germany. II
seems inevitable that one result Of such rnu-
scum viii ba a strengthened feeling Of the unity
Of the Germauic race, and doubt not that Ger
mani. studies at large will be benefited and