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Road. It remains very much in the same state as in 

 the Count's time, though a stucco front seems to have 

 been added. The house had been leased by the owner 

 to the Rev. Mr. Beloe, the translator of Herodotus, 

 who gave it up in 1810. The Countess occupied it 

 and leased it, as we have seen, alternately, and in 1837 

 she sold the lease to the present proprietors. While it 

 was still in her possession it was occupied successively 

 by Sir Richard Phillips and Mr. Wilberforce. 



I am under obligations to Mr. G. Henry Horst- 

 mann, United States Consul at Munich, for the follow- 

 ing interesting letter, describing the recently erected 

 statue of Count Rumford, and the present condition 

 of his English Garden. The letter is dated Munich, 

 October 12, 1870 : 



" The bronze statue of Count Rumford stands in the Maxi- 

 millian Strasse, the finest street of Munich, perhaps of any city 

 of Europe. It is at this part four hundred feet wide, planted 

 with quadruple rows of trees, the crimson-blossomed wild chest- 

 nut, and the American sycamor.e, with wide parterres of flowers 

 and grass-plots on either side the pavement, and shady walks 

 between, furnished with garden sofas for pedestrians. The 

 monument stands in front of the new government offices, 

 an imposing building in Italian Gothic, with some seven hun- 

 dred feet front. To the right of this statue stands one to 

 General Deroy. On the opposite side of the street, and in 

 front of the National Museum, a large edifice of the same 

 dimensions as the before-mentioned building, stand in sym- 

 metrical positions, Frauenhofer, the astronomer and inventor, 

 and Schelling,.the philosopher, the tutor of King Maximillian, 

 erected, as the inscription says, by his 'grateful scholar.' 

 These four memorials are all of uniform size, the figures being 

 ten feet, English, standing on granite pedestals of eleven feet in 

 height. The statue of Count Rumford was modelled by Pro- 

 fessor Caspar Zumbusch, of Munich, was cast at the Royal 



