92 THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS OF EUROPE 



Herr Hilpert's philharmonic orchestra (wind instru- 

 ments), under the Imperial Music Director, Bruno 

 Hilpert, performs in summer (on Mondays, Wednes- 

 days, and Thursdays) in the afternoon from 4 to 8. 

 On Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays there are two 

 concerts, from 4 to 7 p.m. and from 7.30 to 10 p.m. 

 In' the winter string-instrument concerts, Mondays, 

 Wednesdays, and Thursdays, from 3.30 to 7 ; on 

 Fridays symphony concerts from 3.30 to 6; on Sunday 

 3.30 to 6.30, and from 7 to 9.30. 



Dogs, parrots, ornamental birds and animals are for 

 sale in the Garden. 



How wonderfully well built these German cities are ! 

 There is scarcely a town in England which can com- 

 pare in beauty and picturesqueness with such cities as 

 Diisseldorf, Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin, or Frankfort- 

 on-the-Main, with their great wide streets avenued 

 with trees, their artistic buildings, the lavish display 

 in public places of statuary of a high order, and the 

 ease with which one can find one's way about. 



The Zoological Garden in Hanover is well worth a 

 visit. It is situated in a shady wood, and contains 

 some very quaint houses. The first house one encounters 

 is devoted to cranes and herons. In the centre of the 

 Garden is a duck-pond with an island in the middle, 

 upon which are placed what look like tiny dog-kennels. 

 In these little houses the waterfowl build their nests. 

 In the monkey house were a hamadrya and a remark- 

 ably fine baboon, both animals comparatively rare in 

 collections. There is a substantially built bear castle 

 well filled, and close to it is the concert-hall, in which 



