Show I of King Ludwig I I J r rt t r f I P d o r 1 r r brany edy wR gw About eight mites from on ona II a hill 1348 feet above the sea-level sea stands lands the Walhalla the G German hallf hall Df f fame a magnificent marble temple erected reeled by King Ludwig 1 I. I From the stately portico lies es a view unsurpassed In Germany for the dis- dis Lance ance It comman commands s and the varying charm harm of its landscape In the background background back- back ground round are dark slopes of the Bavarian Bava Bava- lan rian forests and below and around Is Isa a stretch of ot country so love luvel It would woul seem eem as if it a great plane had been run over ver it Through this fertile flat fiat ground round runs luns the Danube and In the dIstance Istance are the towns lowns Donaustauf and nd The Walhalla Is modeled after afler the Parthenon at al Athens The materIal Is s of gray marble but bul so light In color col col- or r as to be almost white and its massIve massive mas- mas sIve ive fluted columns 52 of or them each 30 0 feet high show with classic grace I against the wooded hills bills and blue sky The rhe building Is long and high which produces an Interior spacious and stately lately Though busts figures and tablets are re of white marble a pleasing warm tone one Is introduced into various parts The coffered cottered bronze ceiling has platinum pIaU num uin blue stars and the marble mosaic mosaic mo- mo ale pavement ement h has s a tone of brown I while the walls are faced with red red- dish brown marble tho the richly a adorned orned architrave are 14 war war- maids of the ancient Teutonic paradise wearIng blue robes lobes eded edged with gold Around the halls are great white marble chairs tall candelabra and graceful Victorias the latter by Rauch King Ludwig ruled Impartially over o his Temple of Fame While none but illustrious guests were admitted to his marble house greatness was alone the open sesame Albertus Magnus stands opposite to Martin Luther and Kant to Saint Boniface Marble busts of celebrated Germans are In place The Thelast Thelast Thelast last three added are those of ot William I. I Bismarck and Moltke But great genius does not leave always always always al al- ways a portrait to admiring posterity To perpetuate the identity of ot these celebrities King Ludwig Lud Lud- wIg raIsed tablets tablets 61 61 of them And he went still farther when he placed monumental scrolls to the memory of three e great men whose names are known only by their achievements One is the architect of the Cologne Altogether It I Is a royal c company of fighters thinkers musicians must musi u I. I clans painters writers preachers rulers rulers ru rUe ru- ru lers leIs each ach one a king among men |