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284 imitation of the Propylea in Athens, and the figure on the top is a Quadriga of victory, the four horses of victory, bronze. Napoleon took away this Quadriga to Paris in 1807, but it was restored to Berlin in 1814.

Passing through this gate we come to an open square called Paris Place since the victories over the French in 1871. There are some handsome and noble buildings on both sides of this Paris Place. No. 2 on our right was Blucher's Palace, and is now the Austrian Embassy. No. 5 is the French Embassy.

The fine street Unterden Linden begins from the Paris Place. Passing along this street we come to where the magnificent bronze statue of Frederick the Great stands, in the centre of the street. The groups of finely executed figures allegorical as well as historical on the pedestal and the noble and impressive attitude of the great warrior himself mounted on a horse, make the monument one of the finest of its kind in Europe.

As I was admiring this monument, I saw a great crowd at its foot. I could not for some time imagine what they had assembled there for, the statue itself was nothing to them, they had seen it a thousand times over. Nor were they looking at the statue, but at a perfectly plain and quiet looking building on the south side of the street. There were two soldiers on guard at the gate, and a flag was floating above. The truth flashed on me suddenly then,—this quiet and almost