FRANKFORT-ON-MAIN--By Bayard Taylor HEIDELBERG--By Bayard Taylor STRASBURG--By Harriet Beecher Stowe FREIBURG AND THE BLACK FOREST--By Bayard Taylor II. NUREMBERG AS A MEDIEVAL CITY--By Cecil Headlam ITS CHURCHES AND THE CITADEL--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin NUREMBERG TO-DAY--By Cecil Headlarn WALLS AND OTHER FORTIFICATIONS--By Cecil Headlam ALBERT DÜRER--By Cecil Headlam III. OTHER BAVARIAN CITIES MUNICH--By Bayard Taylor AUGSBURG--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin RATISBON--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin IV. BERLIN AND ELSEWHERE A LOOK AT THE GERMAN CAPITAL--By Theophile Gautier CHARLOTTENBURG--By Harriet Beecher Stowe LEIPZIG AND DRESDEN--By Bayard Taylor WEIMAR IN GOETHE'S DAY--By Madame De Staël ULM--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin AIX-LA-CHAPELLE AND CHARLEMAGNE'S TOMB--By Victor Hugo THE HANSEATIC LEAGUE--By James Howell HAMBURG--By Theophile Gautier SCHLESWIG--By Theophile Gautier LÜBECK--By Theophile Gautier HELIGOLAND--By William George Black V. VIENNA FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF THE CAPITAL--By Bayard Taylor ST. STEPHEN'S CATHEDRAL--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin THE BELVEDERE PALACE--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin SCHÖNBRUNN AND THE PRATER--By Thomas Frognall Dibdin VI. HUNGARY A GLANCE AT THE COUNTRY--By H. Tornai de Kövër BUDAPEST--By H. Tornai de Kövër (_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 SCHÖNBRUNN, 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