In and Around Berlin

A travel writer's portrait of Berlin and its environs blends first impressions and personal anecdotes with descriptive tours of public life and institutions. Observations range from the visible military presence and daily social customs to family life, education, churches, and museums; chapters also treat legislative assemblies and notable personages, civic pageantry including the aged monarch's ninetieth birthday, and built environments such as streets, parks, cemeteries, palaces, and the Humboldt family homes. Practical sketches of university, technical, and artistic academies and philanthropic enterprises are woven with accounts of excursions beyond the city.