[Illustration: BERLIN: THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND FREDERICK'S BRIDGE]

[Illustration: BERLIN: THE GENDARMENMARKT]

[Illustration: THE COLUMN OF VICTORY IN BERLIN]

[Illustration: THE MAUSOLEUM AT CHARLOTTENBURG]

[Illustration: THE NEW PALACE AT POTSDAM]

[Illustration: THE CASTLE OF SANS SOUCI, POTSDAM]

[Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE, TOMB OF CHARLEMAGNE]

[Illustration: THE ROYAL PALACE OF SCHÖNBRUNN, NEAR VIENNA
(The man on the sidewalk at the left is the Emperor Francis Joseph)]

[Illustration: SALZBURG, AUSTRIA]


I shall not now give an inventory of the Museum in Berlin, which is rich
in pictures and statues; to do this would require more space than is at
my command. We find represented here, more or less favorably, all the
great masters, the pride of royal galleries. But the most remarkable
thing in this collection is the very numerous and very complete
collection of the primitive painters of all countries and all schools,
from the Byzantine down to those which immediately precede the
Renaissance. The old German school, so little known in France, and on
many accounts so curious, is to be studied to better advantage here than
anywhere else. A rotunda contains tapestries after designs by Raphael,