New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-04-20
THE LURE OF GERMANY
Peculiar Attractions of the
FatherIand for the American.
VISITORS WELL RECEIVED
Pleasure Seeker and Student
Alike Find Much 90 Delight
Them There.

The American visitor 10 Europe lis pretty
sIre ~ one time or another TO find him
self In GERMANY That country has = pc
culiar charm for Americans. as our coun-
Try has Tor the Germans. so many ~
whom have come 10 swell our population
with the good stock Of the Fathcrland.
Americans are to De found settled all over
the empire They dwell there i'm peace and
comfort with their native reirhhors and
each seems 20 like the other.
PhleEmatic as the German is in the gen
oral esti,narior it remains that in art and
music. drama ana literature. Germans have
Done more than rhoir share 81 the work
~ tire world. The graces OF life have not
been neglected hv ? nation that has given
n the world such musicians as Weber. No
zar-t Schubert. Sc1un1arn. wagner and
beethoven. such poets as Goethe and
Heine. such phlosUphcrs a. Kant. HegeL
Fichte and Schopen"auer. such dramatists
as sudermanr. and such historians as Won
Tsnke and Alommsen.
what viii eventually strike the Amerl-
can who STAYS there long enough is She ex-
tracrdinary compactness OF a nation made
up II 50 many widely different component
parts rs GERMANY Prussia. SaXony. Ba-
vs-ia and WJrtomberg-a tho separate
pal.ts % the empiro--diTor in traits OF race
ard manners. in customs and habits.
Il is hard 20 realize that the amazingly
wei KNITTED parts Of the empire were hrok-
81 up into little bits when Napoleon
crushed the nation and levied tribute upon
n that even IN The early part of the nine
feenth century the Germany % to-day was
collection % scattered sovereign states.
each with its own laws, and with such
g complicated code u customs duties that
travel betWesr one small kingdom and
smother was more formidable undertak-
Eng than trip from Kew york 10 Berlin
= TO-DAY
Swift Forming Of the Nation.
Considering the Germany % today Dr. Is
rossiveiv Startling Go remember that u
vac the great tests - the wars Of lSg with
Austria ana az 1870 with France that on
abica bismarck 10 veld the pieces Of an
empire ilitc r cohesive state. ready 40 take
fJs proper place in TIE coUncils u the
world ana a. dominate. .a many WAYS -
= Hss done ever since. t.e fascinating
game - 'WcltpolitiE."
Now Ire old geographical lines arc pre-
served. ir . certain sense. There is stil
p King Of Saxcuv. and "a kingdom OF Ba-
varia. = Grand Duchy of Ea1en. and 81
FIessc Bur ovcl a. SITS the war lord the
German Kaiser sJzerain an1 ruler over
81 the broad empire in tact as wei as in
name and nor simply King ~ Prussia. IS
SO OH Wilhelm before the historic day
When he Ras crowned Emperor En- ~hot-
rfa8sed Nerssilles. ancient nome Of the
rfsjesty 81 France.
Tire history 81 Germany is not atone tnat
- tire ancient avs when the Thirty Years
war ragged when Augustus Adolphus
forchf for tie Protestant fslth. The mis-
tory that appeals 10 Americans D. that
a. what ve might call our own times. Ia
which Carl schurz played his part. the
,,ory % the reyoiuti0nists If 1889 and 1890
VINO were striving. with prophetic foresight
Cor TIRE vision they could see % the new
Germany, rising above the crumbiine
STRUCTURES Of :he medieval subdivisions.
The seeker after pleasure for the sake
ef pleasure viii GrJ 81 in Germany, ia the
charming summer life that Is 80 largely or