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The schools commenced with $250 ! The statement seems almost incredible, but it is easier to believe it after what was seen at Nuremberg, where a museum on the plan of that of South Kensington has recently been formed. It was evident that the Nurembergers were more bent on making a start than on building a grand edifice for their museum. Having decided that such an institution was needed, they went to work at once, without being too particular as to where they worked, so that a commencement was made.
The exclamation was natural, when first seeing what was pointed out as the Museum : " This cannot be the Museum of Art and Industry! ” for it was over a meat market, in what had once been a prison. Yet this was, or rather had been, the Museum, which changed its quarters but a few days before the writer visited the city for more commodious though still not palatial shelter.
Thus it is that the German museums and educational systems grow bit by bit, until, some day, it is discovered with astonishment, what splendid results they have achieved.
Bavaria presents a capital example of the good results flowing from a wise encouragement of the Fine Arts in other places beside Nuremberg, one of its cities.
Munich, its capital, under liberal and systematic expenditures by the central government, has become, within the last half century, eminent among the capitals of Europe for its public buildings, its historic monuments and memorials, its art treasures, its libraries, laboratories, and facilities for high literary, scientific and art culture.
The following is an extract from a Report on Education in Germany, issued by the National Bureau at Washington :—
“In a mere economical view, in their relation to the industrial development of the capital, the large expenditures required to build and equip the PinalcotheJes , with their 1,800 pictures, 300,000 engravings and 9,000 drawings; the Glyplothek, with its twelve galleries of ancient sculpture, and its large collection of the works of Canova, Thowaldsen, Schadow, and other modern sculptors; the j Royal Library , and its 800,000 volumes,—four, times the number in the Library of Congress ; the University , with its five faculties, 100 professors, and the Conservatorism of Sciences, with their laboratories, museums of natural history, botanic garden and arbore-