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A STROLI* THBOUGH BEEim. 123
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_ipushed aside in silenced discomfiture to make way for the triumphant -din of looms and spinning-jennies . Next to thisand peering from
, the dusky covert of a surrounding grove of trees , stands in lowbrowed Doric stolidity the New [ Royal Guard-house , neighboured
hy the extensive University , with its retiring fagade and advancing wings , leaving an area in front , laid out as a flower-garden , railed
off from the road , and rich within in a treasure of anatomical , zoological , mineral and miscellaneous collections . The outwardly
unimportant Academy of Arts and Sciences ends the series on the right hand . On the opposite side is the recently renovated and
highly ornate palace whither Prince Frederick has transplanted his English rose ; next to it the _iRoyal Opera House , built by
[ Frederick the Great on a plan designed chiefly after the model of the Pantheon at Athens ; then on the other side of the square-like
enclosure which divides them , and towards which its face is turned , the _JRoyal _library , in marked variation of style , displays the outwardly
wavy line of its crescentine front , said hy irreverent mockers to have been imitated from the pattern of a chest of drawers ; and immediately
adjoining it the outwardly very plain , but patriotic palace of the Prince of Prussia ( now King ) , built solely of native materials , and
decorated solely by native artists . Scattered about among' these buildings are sundry figures , in bronze or marble , of celebrated
generals , for it is to warriors alone that statues have been erected in Berlin ; and at the further end of the Platz in the centre of the
road-way stands the crowning ornament , _[ Rauch _' s enormous groupmonument to Frederick the Great , the granite pedestal surrounded
midway with portrait-figures of the principal men of his Court , and surrounded hy the effi gy of the hero himself astride upon his steed
, with cocked-hat , cane , and pigtail , complete as in life , yet presenting no ungraceful appearance despite of them all , thanks to the
artist ' s skill and the one licence taken in the addition of a royal mantle over the uniform .
At this spot begins that widest of all wide streets , the _stereoscopically arranged " Unter den Linden , '' with its two parallel
carriage roads adjoining the paved paths before the houses , and embracing between them a double avenue of lime and chestnut
trees , shading the pair of wide promenades for pedestrians , disposed _« one on each side of the central Mall for horsemen . This road ,
imarked by a single avenue afterwards cut down , was originally formed by the Great Elector , but was laid out on the present grand
jplan by the energetic Princess Dorothea , who with her own fair hand planted the first tree . The buildings on each side consist at
this end of a series of first-rate hotels , interspersed with the residences of ambassadors and noblemen f lower downtradesmen ,
, chiefly jewellers , milliners , and other ministrants to luxury , dislay their wares in shops reckoned first-ratebut by no means
_striki p ng as regards size or dazzling exterior ; these , are again
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A Stroli* Thbough Beeim. 123
A STROLI * THBOUGH _BEEim . 123
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1863, page 123, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041863/page/51/
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