internal attractions. The hotels Baur au Lac and Bellevue are both delightfully situated on the margin of the Lake. The most desirable points of view are the Terrace, the Hohe Promenade, the Katz, and along the Lake, the Bauschanze.

THE CATHEDRAL, or Gross-Münster, was erected in the 11th cent., the gilt ornaments of the towers being added, 1779; on the west tower, is an effigy of Charlemagne in commemoration of favors received from him. The Hohe Promenade, on the height two or three squares to the left of the lake, at its termination, commands a most admirable view, and possesses also a monument to the eminent composer, Nägeli. On the opposite side of the town is the Botanical Garden, which contains 800 Alpine plants. The Katz, a portion of an old fortification near by, affords a fine view.

ENVIRONS: The Bürgli Terrace on the Uetliberg road, † ml.; the Wied, to the n. w., 3 mls. dist.; and the Uetliberg, 6 mls. dist.; this commands a view of the Alps and the intervening country and lakes, scarcely surpassed for beauty in Switzerland.

THE LAKE OF ZÜRICH, 25 mls. long and 2 broad in its widest part, though wanting the grandeur of Lake Lucerne, is nevertheless one of the most beautiful in Switzerland. The up

per portion of the lake lies in the midst of more rugged scenery than the lower. Boats leave about every two hours in summer, occupying 2 hrs. for passage; making the excursion in about 6 hrs.

Routes To BALE, 2 hrs., $1.75; $1.25. To LUCERNE, 2 hrs., $0.85; $0.60. TO COIRE, 3 hrs., $3; $1.50. To SCHAFFHAUSEN, 2 hrs., $1.20 $0.85.

PART II.

CATALOGUE

OF THE NOTED WORKS OF ART IN THE PRINCI. PAL GALLERIES OF CENTRAL EUROPE.

"THE ARTS ARE ODIOUS ONLY TO THE IGNORANT."

-Inscription on the Berlin Museum.

"TO BE CONVERSANT WITH THE ARTS OF GREECE IS TO MOVE AMONG A RACE OF GODS ENDOWED WITH PERPETUAL YOUTH."

St. John.

"TO THESE GREAT MASTERS DOTH MANKIND OWE ITS KNOWLEDGE OF THE BEAUFIFUL."

NEVER JUDGE A WORK OF ART BY ITS DEFECTS."- Washing ton Allston.

NOTE.-In every extensive Collection of Art, the number of works of great historic value or artistic merit is necessarily but a small proportion of the whole. The judicious visitor will, therefore, abridge his attention to the gallery in general, and devote his time and interest to those rooms and works which the catalogue indicates as most worthy of attention.

In.

The American, whose study of a gallery is likely to be somewhat limited, unless endowed with extraordinary powers of memory, should attempt nothing more than the recollection of the starred works. deed, if proposing to visit several galleries, these alone will prove neither a light task nor an unimportant acquisition.

A part distinctly remembered is better than the whole held in confused uncertainty.

When leisure permits, iù is recommended to the visitor to make his selections of the more meritorious works without aid or hint from the guide-book. It will be found of great benefit to exercise, so far as pos-sible, an independent judgment upon the peculiar excellences or deficiencies of noted works before seeking the aid of criticism.

Indeed, when the student learns that the most authoritative art critic of England declares Turner (an Englishman) to be "the greatest painter the world has seen;" and that an equally weighty authority of Germany avers that Dürer (a German) is the equal of any artist that ever lived; and that another German critic announces that Correggio (an Italian) was no master, but "merely an adept in chiaroscuro," he may be pardoned some abatement of faith in unprejudiced criticism, and some disposition to independent opinion.

The limited dimensions of a hand-bock for tourists render impossible a specific mention of the less important galleries, many of which the art student would find worthy of a visit, and containing some of the best works of the great masters. Among these are the galleries at Brunswick: Ducal Museum; 900 pictures; Dutch masters ably rep

resented.

Buda-Pesth: 800 pictures (50 Spanish), 50,000 engravings, 12,000 drawings.

Cassel Picture Gallery; rich especially in Rembrandt, Rubens, van Dyck, and Hals.

Cologne: Museum; examples of Cologne school of painting.
Darmstadt: Containing the celebrated Holbein Madonna.
Edinburgh: With many good English and Dutch works.
Frankfort: Städel Gallery; noted for fine modern pictures.
Geneva: With Raphael's Madonna of the Goldfinch.
Gotha: Friedenstein Palace Picture Gallery; Dutch and German

masters.

Haarlem: 300 pictures by Dutch and Belgian artists.

See p. 214.

Lille: Museum; rich in drawings by old masters and copies of Italian

artists.

Lyons: Picture Gallery; "a few good pictures."

Parma: "Inferior pictures with names of great masters appended." Stockholm: With fine modern works.

Turin: With Raphael's Madonna della Tenda. See p. 224.

Vienna: The Leichtenstein; 1,500 pictures, among which are some very fine works.

CAUTION.-As in some instances, in the following catalogue, the location and the numbers attached to the works have been given as an aid to identification, the visitor is cautioned that, in some galleries, both the numbering and the location are subject to frequent change.

CATALOGUE OF THE (*) NOTED WORKS

IN THE

PRINCIPAL COLLECTIONS OF ART.

Albani Villa, Rome.

Open Tuesdays (in good weather) from 10, in winter, and from 11, in summer, till dusk; closed during June, July, and August. Visitors obtain permit upon presenting a visiting card at the office in the Torlonia Palace, No. 135 Piazza Venetia, ground floor, to the left.

Many of the finest statues formerly here have recently been transferred to the Torlonia Collection in the city.

CASINO-Ground Floor.—Statues of emperors, mostly with restored

heads.

Sala della Colonna,-*Sarcophagus, with relief of the Marriage of Peleus and Thetis.

Upper Floor-Oval Sala.-*Cupid, after Lysippus.

Galleria Nobile.-*Minerva.

3. *Mercury and Eurydice; *Theophrastus.

4. *Painting by Perugino, in six sections.

6. **Bas-relief of Antinous. See p. 19. *Shepherdess.

7. *Greek relief, found 1764.

8. Designs by Romano for his Myth of Psyche.

9. *Æsop; *Apollo Sauroktonos, bronze, much restored, regarded by Winckelmann as the original of Praxiteles (see p. 25); *Relief of the Apotheosis of Hercules.

In the Bigliardo and the Caffè are also several inferior statues.

Amsterdam, Rijks Museum (Royal).

Open daily, ex. Mon., 10-3; 1 fr.; Sun., free.

Upon the completion of the present magnificent building the former collections of the Rijks and the van der Hoop Museums were united, making a collection of upward of a thousand pictures, with many mas. terpieces. The more noted works are in the centre, at the rear.

Rembrandt: **The Night-Watch chickens, so admirably as Hondecoeter.