phael impose
silence upon them; they murmur vague formulas of enthusiasm, and go off
to rhapsodize--this time with sincerity--over some Magdalen of Guido, or
some Madonna of Carlo Dolce. I make large allowance, therefore, for this
unattractive aspect which belongs to fresco-painting; but in this case,
the execution is by far too repulsive. The mind may be content, but the
eye suffers. Painting, which is altogether a plastic art, can express
its ideal only through forms and colors. To think is not enough;
something must be done....

[Illustration: BERLIN: UNTER DEN LINDEN]

[Illustration: BERLIN: THE BRANDENBURG GATE]

[Illustration: BERLIN: THE ROYAL CASTLE AND EMPEROR WILLIAM BRIDGE]

[Illustration: BERLIN: THE WHITE HALL IN THE ROYAL CASTLE]

[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 SCHOENBRUNN, 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,
of which the original cartoons are now in Hampton Court.

The staircase of the new Museum is decorated with those remarkable
frescoes by Kaulbach, which the art of engraving and the Universal
Exposition have made so well known in France. We all remember the
cartoon entitled "The Dispersion of Races," and all Paris has admired,
in Goupil's window that poetic "Defeat of the Huns," where the strife
begun between the living warriors is carried on amids