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and festivals upon a tract some forty-seven acres in extent. The surface of the building alone covers six thousand square metres.

No city in Germany has greater educational advantages, or so many societies for the encouragement of learning and the promotion of fine arts. As we see the gigantic strides it has made in the last forty years, as we note the magnificence of its public buildings and the villas of its merchant princes, those who knew Frankfort in the olden time say, "It is an old picture in a new frame."