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Report of a [onrney Around the Jl^or/d. 



1886 by M. Guimet of Lyons is worth a visit even if one is not 

 especially interested in oriental religions. The publications of 

 this museum are voluminous and valuable. I was anxious to see 

 whether there would be anything touching upon the religion of 

 Polynesians, and although there was little in the way of images 

 or paintings that was near of kin to the Pacific Islands Worship, 

 I was well repaid for my visit.' 



The Musee Carnavalet is most interesting for the history of 

 Paris, but as I had seen it before, I passed it by, as also the Con- 



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servatoire des Arts et Metiers, for want of time. The Hotel de 

 Cluny has always appealed to me since my first visit, now nearl}' 

 fifty years ago, and I did not pass it by this time. 



Leaving Paris, we arrived at Marseilles, where we spent the 

 27th of July. One lesson the Marseilles museums teach, and it is 

 an important lesson, that besides good architecflure, the surround- 

 ings are important. The mosque of Sultan Hassan in Cairo is one 

 of the gems of Saracenic architecture, but half its beauty is lost 

 buried in the surrounding hovels. It is not merely the danger 



'While the Musee Guimet was founded in Lyon in 1878, after its presenta- 

 tion to the state it was removed to Paris. M. Emile Guimet during his 

 travels in China and Japan collected much in both countries. From Japan 

 alone he brought 300 Kakemonoes of a religious nature, 600 idols, and 1000 

 volumes of religious matter. This material is given to the world in two peri- 

 odical publications — A /mates da Alasee Giiiinet and Revue de td/istoiie des 

 retigio>is. [252] 



