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Show Travel Book on Germany Proves ' More Than. Guide Th purpoae of thia llttl volume. "Com With Me Through Germany." la to provide, for the person who Is interested In something mor than th cuperflclal Germany, a companion com-panion and a friend. It la not a guide book, but an Invitation. Frank Scboonmaker. Its author, starta ua in th city of Berlin, a city of tarnished splendor, th frayed rococo curtain of an empty stage, th care-worn capital of a vanished empire. A eity of dawn and twilight, a bewildering place of contradiction, a battleground battle-ground over which th new and th old wage pltllee war. Her w ahould vlalt the relchMa If It hap-pena hap-pena to be In eeasion: spend a Sunday Sun-day morning In tha park. at -Oruna-wald and a Sunday afternoon in the loo: go to th movie tn on of th vast and very beautiful theatre which Una Kurfuratendamm, to lunch with tha hoi pollol In tha Aachlnger' Blerquelle, and dine modestly at a beer garden while tha band plays brassy, sentimental mualo and lover talk acroaa the table. Then we pasa along tha north Into ! th cities ot Lubeck, Hamburg and Bremen, paualng to not that th greater part of the world'a commerce com-merce flow through thea port. Into th town of the great center w stop at Wittenberg, th home of Luther: Weimar, the horn of Ooeth and Schiller Caaael, th glory of Rembrandt. Next'w go from Duueldorf to Heidelberg up the Rhln. Th magic of the Rhine I an enduring and Immortal thing. Like Venice, thl river haa had alnc tima immemorial im-memorial th power to lay over the hearta of men a glamorous and mya-terloua mya-terloua charm. There la aome thing Infinitely, almost poignantly, romantic ro-mantic about Heidelberg. It la here we find aome ot tha rarest thinga that man and nature hava created In collaboration. Of the many gateway to the Black forest Baden-Baden. Offem. burg. Stuttgart, the little city of Freiburg-lm-Brelagau la by all odds not only tha pleaaanteet, but the most logical aa well. The pine-clad hills behind Freiburg are cut with splendid gorges and dark valleya For ocenlc beauty they have few equala in the world. The Black for-eat for-eat la on of th moat enchanting rertone In the world. Then finally Into the cities of Saxony, the treeaury of arte, home of music, as wet las commercial center. W etop at Dresden, hospitable hos-pitable and charming, a city fit for tha sods. (McBrlde.) |