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| numerous statues are interesting fea-
: lures of its interior.
| Between trips to this almost end
less array of exhibits, travellers enjoy
! the Dresden parks and drives. GroSser
Garten is nearly half as large as Cen
| tral Park in New York City. Within
| its confines are geological and hotani-
| cal gardens and the Museum Of the
Saxon Antiquarian Society, where
there are 5000 objects in porcelain,
| pewter and carved wood.
In Neustadt, across the river the
| Japanese palace, so called from the
Japanese porcelain collection it once
contained, now houses the Saxon
| State Library with more than Il half
million volumes and thousands Of
manuscripts and maps. Dresden's
market place is also in Neustadt, and
houses to accommodate many Of the
city's 620,0O0 inhabitants.
In point of population Munich
| (Munchen) is exceeded only by Berlin
and Hamburg among German cities.
With 6SO,OOO inhabitants it is some
! what larger than San Francisco and
| smaller than Boston.
Munich Is Magnificent.
| In physical aspects Munich is one
| of the most impressive of modern
cities. It's royal palaces, its magnifi-
| cent national theater, its great royal
| library containing 100000 volumes
| and $4,000 rare manuscripts; its broad
thoroughfares, particularly the Lud-
| wigstrasse and MaXimilianStrasSe,
| bordered by the great Office buildings
of the Bavarian government, and its
| famous university which ranks first
among the German institutions Of
learning in the number of its medical
| students and second only to Berlin in
! the number of students of all classes
all these and many other buildings
| and institutions make the municipal
ity one of the chief prides of the Teu-
| tonic people.
Most of the modern improvements
| and practically all of its architectural
| splendor Munich owes to Louis tor
Ludwig / and his art-lOving success
sors. Louis came to the throne in
| 1925 and ruled for more than 20 years.
| One of the impressive monuments of
, his reign is the beautiful PrOpyiaea,
| modelled after the gate to the Athen-
| ian Acropolis, and the reliefs which
| decorate this structure quite tttingly
| tell the story of Greece's war of indie
pendence and the events transpiring
in that kingdom during the eventful
reign of King Otho /, Louis son who
was elected to the throne of Greece
in 1882 but was finally expelled after
80 years. Another beautiful Munich
gateway is the Siegestor (Gate of Vic
tory). modelled after the Arch of Con-
stantine in Rome.
One Munich gallery exhibits such
works as Titian's "Christ Crowned
with Thorns," Rembrandts "The Des-
cent from the Cross" and a Raphael
Madonna" and contains works of
Rubens, Van Dyck, HOlbein the Elder,
Perugino, Botticelli and Fra FilippO
Lippi, from which it will be seen that
Louis did not hesitate to acquire the
masterpieces of other nations.
Louis Ii saw Bavaria gradually alb
sorbed in the Empire, but. before
madness drove him to suicide, he fur
thered the art development begun by
his grandfather. His reign was nOta-
bile for his encouragement of Wag-
ner's development of the music drama,
and to his royal generosity, which
would add more to his fame had it
not been for the oppressive taxatiOns
it imposed and its later eXcesses, were
due the Bayreuth productions, epochal
in the history of music.
Its Commerce and Science.
The commercial life of Munich is
scarcely less interesting than its artis-
tic side. In America the name of the
city was once indelibly associated with
its most important article of export
beer. In scientific circles Munich's
optical and mathematical instruments
have worldwide reputation; while
the art of ithography had its birth
there.
Munich owes its beginning to Duke
Henry the Lion, who in 115S estab-
lished mint there and built bridge
dCIOSS tic 1911 III oidC tiieAt ~
the more easily levy toll on the salt
obtained from the springs of Reichen-
hall and neighboring villages. The
city occupies the site of the ancient
monastery of Tegernsee. hence its
name (munichen, the monk). In 1927
the place was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire. but it was soon re-
built by Emperor Louis, the Bavarian,
in the form which it retained up to
the accession of Louis l in the Nine
teenth century.
America has had share in the
Identification of Munich, for it was
Benjamin Thompson, native Of
Woburn, Mass, who laid out the
magnificent park of 600 acres known
as the English Garden. For his many
services to the Bavarian government
the American scientist and admins
traitor was made a count of the Holy
Roman empire and he chose as his
title the name of Rumford after the
little New Hampshire village (the
mnslern COncOrd), where he had sp,nt
his boyhoOd.