In the Kaiser's Capital

Dickie, James Francis

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Author:: Dickie, James Francis

Title:: In the Kaiser's Capital

Publication:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912

Language:: English

Digitization:: Berlin: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin, 2024

Scope:: 315 Seiten

Note:: "History of the American Church in Berlin" im Anhang

Keywords:: Berlin ; Geschichte 1871-1918 ; Kultur ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung

Berlin:: B 184 Kulturgeschichte: 1800 -1918

DDC Group:: 900 Geschichte

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:109-1-15493784

Collection:: History,Cultural History

Location:: Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin

Shelfmark:: B 184/132

Copyright:: Public Domain

Accessibility:: Free Access

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Title:: Chapter II. The city and the colony

CHAPTER II THE CITY AND THE COLONY My arrival in Berlin on the dark November evening of 1894 was not my first visit to the German capital. We had spent some weeks there at a former time. It is one thing to come as a passing tourist and another to come on a definite mission, and to seek to make oneself at home therein. In the former case you spend your days in sightseeing, in the palaces and in the picture galleries, in the gardens and mausoleums. In the latter you perform the duties of your office, make your circle of friends, strive to bow your neck to new conditions of life, and to conform to all such customs as are seemly. Yet you cannot help learning to know the city as no mere passing tourist can know it, and if you hap- pen to be as fortunate as we have been, to love it and look on it with a measure of pride. My duty led me into every quarter of the splendid city, and I have experienced so much kindness there that I am not ashamed, foreigner as I am, to claim almost a citizen's share and interest in it, as though I were a child of Imperial Berlin. To a stranger the most interesting part of the city is Unter-den-Linden. How magnificently broad, how majestically grand, how full of ever-changing life! From the Imperial Palaces, from the splendid statue of Frederick the 16

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