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AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
music, the colour, and the intoxicating incense within the
chapel, to the silence, the snow, the frosty sky, with a bril-
liant rising moon without, was much more impressive.
What with the excitement of the midnight mass, the heat,
the cold, and the beauty, I was so wide awake when I once
more found myself in my own little room, that I did not
attempt to go to bed till it was about time to get up, in an
ordinary way. And then came a packet of English letters-
greetings from my beloved ones: and they have been the
joy of the day !
In the afternoon I went into several of the old churches
of Munich, to see what was going on. High mass was per-
forming everywhere, and there were in some of the churches
extraordinary figures of the infant Jesus, decked out in
golden swaddling-clothes, exhibited among burning tapers
and artificial flowers, and lying in long glass-cases.
In the Jesuits’ Church there has been a grand exhibition
this w'eek, of the Nativity, in the style which I have already
described, with wooden angels in sublime attitudes, and
wooden cattle surrounding the wooden Holy Family. These
“ Krippen,” as they are called, are exhibited in various
churches, and have attracted immense crowds.
AN ART-STUDENT IN MUNICH.
music, the colour, and the intoxicating incense within the
chapel, to the silence, the snow, the frosty sky, with a bril-
liant rising moon without, was much more impressive.
What with the excitement of the midnight mass, the heat,
the cold, and the beauty, I was so wide awake when I once
more found myself in my own little room, that I did not
attempt to go to bed till it was about time to get up, in an
ordinary way. And then came a packet of English letters-
greetings from my beloved ones: and they have been the
joy of the day !
In the afternoon I went into several of the old churches
of Munich, to see what was going on. High mass was per-
forming everywhere, and there were in some of the churches
extraordinary figures of the infant Jesus, decked out in
golden swaddling-clothes, exhibited among burning tapers
and artificial flowers, and lying in long glass-cases.
In the Jesuits’ Church there has been a grand exhibition
this w'eek, of the Nativity, in the style which I have already
described, with wooden angels in sublime attitudes, and
wooden cattle surrounding the wooden Holy Family. These
“ Krippen,” as they are called, are exhibited in various
churches, and have attracted immense crowds.