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the Ubii were a tribe; but make sure of this, as they might be something
in the fossil line.) Cologne was the cradle of German art. Talk about
art and the old masters. Treat them in a kindly and gentle spirit. They
are dead now. Saint Ursula was murdered at Cologne, with eleven thousand
virgin attendants. There must have been quite a party of them. Draw
powerful and pathetic imaginary picture of the slaughter. (N.B.--Find
out who murdered them all.) Say something about the Emperor Maximilian.
Call him 'the mighty Maximilian.' Mention Charlemagne (a good deal
should be made out of Charlemagne) and the Franks. (Find out all about
the Franks, and where they lived, and what has become of them.) Sketch
the various contests between the Romans and the Goths. (Read up 'Gibbon'
for this, unless you can get enough out of _Mangnall's Questions_.) Give
picturesque account--with comments--of the battles between the citizens
of Cologne and their haughty archbishops. (N.B.--Let them fight on a
bridge over the Rhine, unless it is distinctly stated somewhere that they
didn't.) Bring in the Minne-singers, especially Walter von Vogelweid;
make him sing under a castle-wall somewhere, and let the girl die. Talk
about Albert Durer. Criticise his style. Say it's flat. (If possible,
find out if it _is_ flat.) "The rat tower on the Rhine," near Bingen.
Describe the place and tell the whole story. Don't spin it out too long,
because everybody knows it. "The Brothers of Bornhofen," story connected
with the twin castles of Sterrenberg and Liebenstein, Conrad and
Heinrich--brothers--both love Hildegarde. She was very beautiful.
Heinrich generously refuses to marry the beautiful Hildegarde, and goes
away to the Crusades, leaving her to his brother Conrad. Conrad
considers over the matter for a year or two, and then _he_ decides that
he won't marry her either, but will leave her for his brother Heinrich,
and _he_ goes off to the Crusades, from whence he returns, a few years
later on, with a Grecian bride. The beautiful H., muddled up between the
pair of them, and the victim of too much generosity, gets sulky (don't
blame her), and shuts herself up in a lonely part of the castle, and
won't see anybody for years. Chivalrous Heinrich returns, and is wild
that his brother C. has not married the beautiful H. It does not occur
to him to marry the girl even then. The feverish yearning displayed by
each of these two brothers, t