FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE CAPITAL--By Bayard Taylor

ST. STEPHEN'S CATHEDRAL--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

THE BELVEDERE PALACE--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

SCHOENBRUNN AND THE PRATER--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

VI. HUNGARY

A GLANCE AT THE COUNTRY--By H. Tornai de Koever

BUDAPEST--By H. Tornai de Koever

(_Hungary continued in Vol. VI_)

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME V

A PANORAMA OF BERLIN FROM THE TOWN HALL

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL

COLOGNE CATHEDRAL BEFORE THE SPIRES WERE COMPLETED

BINGEN-ON-THE RHINE

NUREMBERG CASTLE

STOLZENFELS CASTLE ON THE RHINE

WIESBADEN

STRASBURG CATHEDRAL

STRASBURG

FRAUENKIRCHE, MUNICH

DOOR OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL

STRASBURG CLOCK

GOETHE'S HOUSE, WEIMAR

SCHILLER'S HOUSE, WEIMAR

BERLIN: UNTER DEN LINDEN

BERLIN: THE BRANDENBURG GATE

BERLIN: THE ROYAL CASTLE AND EMPEROR WILLIAM BRIDGE

BERLIN: THE WHITE HALL IN THE ROYAL CASTLE

BERLIN: THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND FREDERICK'S BRIDGE

BERLIN: THE GENDARMENMARKT

THE COLUMN OF VICTORY, BERLIN

THE MAUSOLEUM AT CHARLOTTENBURG

THE NEW PALACE AT POTSDAM

THE CASTLE OF SANS SOUCI, POTSDAM

THE CATHEDRAL OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE--TOMB OF CHARLEMAGNE

SCHOENBRUNN, VIENNA

SALZBURG, AUSTRIA

[Illustration: COLOGNE CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: COLOGNE CATHEDRAL (Before the spires were completed, as
shown in a photograph taken in 1877)]

[Illustration: BINGEN ON THE RHINE]

[Illustration: NUREMBERG CASTLE]

[Illustration: STOLZENFELS CASTLE ON THE RHINE]

[Illustration: WIESBADEN]

[Illustration: STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: STRASSBURG AND THE CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: THE FRAUENKIRCHE, MUNICH]

[Illustration: THE DOOR OF STRASSBURG CATHEDRAL]

[Illustration: THE STRASSBURG CLOCK]

[Illustration: GOETHE'S HOUSE IN WEIMAR]

[Illustration: SCHILLER'S HOUSE IN WEIMAR]

I

THE RHINE VALLEY

IN HISTORY AND ROMANCE[A]

BY VICTOR HUGO

Of all rivers, I prefer the Rhine. It is now a year, when passing the
bridge of boats at Kehl, since I first saw it. I remember that I felt a
certain respect, a sort of adoration, for this old, this classic stream.
I never think of rivers--those great works of Nature, which are also
great in History--without emotion.

I remember the Rhone at Valserine; I saw it in 1825, in a pleasant
excursion to Switzerland, which is one of the sweet, happy recollections
of my early life. I remember with what noise, with what ferocious
bello