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Close to the wall of the little church one finds the third 

 grave. Little is left of the humble tablet which once bore 

 the name of the silent dweller, Charles William Ferdi- 

 nand, Duke of Brunswick, who had been a true successor 

 of the long line of noble rulers, and who had proven his 

 great valor and love of country by laying down his life 

 in the battle of Auerstadt, in which the infamous Davoust 

 won for himself the title of "Duke." Strange coinci- 

 dent! The noble Brunswick, wounded unto death, was 

 taken to Ottensen, to find his future resting place, in the 

 same village graveyard, where the victims of Davoust 's 

 Christinas holocaust were to share his fate, seven years 

 later. 



Leaving this memorable spot, we do not find much time 

 for meditation as the close-by "Rainville" soon con- 

 vinces the stroller, that things are yet very much alive 

 in Ottensen. Rainville is a favorite pleasure resort for 

 Hamburg and Altona working people. It is built in ter- 

 races on the high bank of the Elbe, and consequently of- 

 fers a beautiful view of the Hanoverian mountains, which 

 adorn the opposite shore. Eainville is particularly well 

 patronized on Sundays, on account of the delightful con- 

 certs, which draw the music-loving middle class. Last 

 Sunday, for instance, a band of fifty musicians from the 

 Italian Infantry Regiment, Wellington, enraptured the 

 hearers. "What music! Not until then did I realize how 

 dances, especially waltzes, ought to be played. The Aus- 

 trian bands, for instance, play hardly anything else, 

 though occasionally they give a march and more rarely 

 an easy selection from some favorite opera. However, no 

 matter what their program may call for, they play their 

 parts well. Difficult compositions are not chosen, pre- 

 sumably because the musicians realize that their audience 

 here would not fully appreciate such efforts. This is true 

 in most cases, where, as in Rainville, the audience is ex- 

 ceptionally large. Everybody seems to give the Italians 

 the preference over their rivals. "We remained last Sun- 

 day several hours in Rainville, as I could neither sat- 

 isfy my longing for the beautiful views which it offers, 



