the
will of the benevolent prelate to turn it from our heretical heads.

The other parts of this celebration consisted in dinners, plays in the
theatres, a meeting at the _Rathhaus_, at which were read papers on the
development of Munich for the seven hundred years of its existence, and
a procession, the whole occupying about a week. I shall only notice
specially the procession, and in connection with it the art exhibition
for all Germany, which closed at the same time, having been in progress
for three months; for the two greatly contributed to each other.

The illustrated weekly, published at Stuttgart by the well-known
novelist Hacklaender, under the title of _Ueber Land und Meer_, refers
to these festivities in the following terms:

'Munich, the South German metropolis of art, was, during the
closing days of September, transformed into a festive city. The
German artists had assembled from all parts of the country, that
they might, within those walls, charmed by the genius of the muses,
wander through the halls in which the academy had collected the
best works of German art, and take counsel upon the common
interests, as they had formerly done at Bingen and Stuttgart. The
artists and the magistracy vied with each other in preparing happy
days for the visitors--an emulation which was crowned with the most
delightful results. The artists' festival, however, was but the
harbinger to the the city of the great seventh centennial birthday
festival of the Bavarian capital, which had been so long in
preparation, and was waited for with such impatience. Concerts and
theatres opened the festal series. Services in all the churches of
both confessions consecrated the coming days, and the laying of the
foundation of the new bridge over the Isar, leading to the
Maximilianeum, formed, historically, a monumental memorial for the
occasion. Favored by the fairest of weather, the city celebrated
the main festival on the 27th of September. It was a historical
procession, moved through all the principal streets of the city,
and caused departed centuries to pass in full life before the eyes
of the citizens and the vast assemblage of strangers there present.
It was no masquerade, but a true picture of the civilization of the
city, from its first appearance in history to the present day--'a
mirrored image,' says a c