re very
extensive, but the influence which went forth again from Cologne served
to counteract this to a great extent.

The Catholic hierarchy in Germany is made up as follows:

+---------------------+---------------------------------+
|ARCHBISHOPRICS | SUFFRAGANS |
| | |
|Posen and Gnesen | Kulm and Ermeland |
| | |
|Breslau | |
| | |
|Olmuetz | |
| | |
|Prague | |
| | |
|Cologne | Hildesheim, Osnabrueck, Muenster,|
| | Paderborn, Fulda, |
| | Limburg, Treves, Mayence. |
| | |
|Freiburg in Breisgau | Wuertemberg, Augsburg, |
| | |
|Munich and Freising | Passau and Ratisbon. |
| | |
|Bamberg | Wuerzburg, Eichstadt, and |
| | Speyer, and the Vicariat of |
| | Dresden. |
| | |
|Strasburg and Metz | |
+---------------------+---------------------------------+

The religious population of Germany to-day is divided approximately
thus: Protestants, 63 per cent; Catholics, 36 per cent; Jews, 1 per
cent.

The reign of the pure Gothic spirit in church-building, as far as it
ever advanced in Germany, was at an end with the wars of the Hussites
and the Reformation of Luther. During these religious and political
convulsions, the Gothic spirit may be said to have died, so far as the
undertaking of any new or great work goes.

Just as we find in Germany a different speech and a different manner of
living from that of either Rome or Gaul, we find also in Germany, or
rather in the Rhenish provinces, a marked difference in ecclesiastical
art from either of the types which were devel