ation: The most beautiful specimen of an early Gothic cloister
in Germany / The Cistercian Cloister Maulbronn in Wuerttemberg,
reconstructed in 1201 / The so-called "Hell stairway" in the Cloister /
From a photograph by August Krueger, Maulbronn]

[Illustration: The Zwinger (bastion) at Dresden / Court surrounded by
six pavilions joined together by galleries. / A wonder-work of German
Baroque, built 1711-1722 by Matthaeus Daniel Poeppelmann (born at Dresden
in 1662, died in Dresden in 1736) / With the permission of the Neuen
Photographischen Gesellschaft, Berlin-Steglitz]

[Illustration: From the golden period of commerce in the German
Moyenage / The Artus or Junker Court in Dantzig, the festival hall of
the Dantzig merchants / Master Heinrich Holzapfel of Cologne finished
the magnificent stalls of the Hall in 1531 / From a photograph by the
National Messbildanstalt, Berlin]

[Illustration: The crown of Gothic architecture in Germany / The
Cathedral at Cologne on the Rhine / Begun in 1248 under Gerhard von
Rile; restoration in 1842 under Zwirner, completed in 1880 by Voigtel /
From a photograph by the National Messbildanstalt, Berlin]

[Illustration: Wilhelm Leibl, born at Cologne on the Rhine, October 23,
1844, died in Wuerzburg, December 4, 1900 / "Dachauer Peasant Women"
(1875), hanging in the National Gallery, Berlin / With the permission of
the Photographischen Gesellschaft, Charlottenburg]

[Illustration: The Bavaria in front of the Hall of Fame in Munich /
Erected by King Ludwig I, 1843-1853 / The Hall of Fame built by Leo von
Klenze, the colossal statue of the Bavaria modeled by Schwanthaler, cast
by Ferdinand Miller / From a photograph by Jaeger and Goergen, Munich]

[Illustration: Late Gothic architecture in Saxony / The Albrecht Castle
in Meissen / Built by Master Arnold in 1471 / The Cathedral erected on
the summit in 1260-1450 / From a photograph by Waldemar Titzenthaler,
Berlin]

[Illustration: The celebrated marble-bath pavilion of Pierre Francois
Monnot in the Aue (Meadow) at Cassel / The Castle consists of the
Orangery, built by the Hugenot, Paul Dury, 1701-1711, the castle built
in 1765 and the bath, completed in 1728 / From a photograph by the
National Messbildanstalt, Berlin]

[Illustration: Lichtenstein Castle near Reutlingen in Wuerttemberg /
Built in 1841 by Heideloff on the site of the old citadel, Lichtenstein,
made famous by Wilhelm Hauff's romance / From a photograph by