Excerpt from Berlin and Its Environs: Handbook for Travellers The present Handbook for Berlin, which corresponds with the fifteenth German edition, incorporates, in a much expanded and carefully revised form, information heretofore included in the Handbook for Northern Germany. Its chief object, like that of the Editors other guides, is to render the traveller as nearly as possible independent of the services of guides and others and to enable him to employ his time, his money, and his energy to the best advantage. Though Berlin does not compete in antiquity or historical interest with the other great European capitals, its position as the metropolis of the German empire and its wealth of art-treasures, both ancient and modern, invest it with high importance in addition to its special and characteristic interest as the greatest purely modern city in Europe. While devoting particular attention to the description of the imposing imperial and national edifices and of the great public collections, the Editor has not forgotten this last-mentioned phase, and has endeavoured to include as comprehensive a selection as possible of other objects of general interest for the cultivated traveller. No one is better aware than the Editor himself of the difficulty of securing absolute accuracy in a guidebook; and he will therefore gratefully welcome the continuance of those valuable corrections and suggestions with which travellers have long been in the habit of favouring him. The utmost care has been bestowed upon the Maps and Plans. The subdivision of the large Plan of Berlin (at the end of the book) into three sections of different colours will be found materially to facilitate reference, as it obviates the necessity of unfolding a large sheet of paper at each consultation. The area shown on this plan coincides with that given in reduced scale on the Tramway Plan at p. 14, so that reference from one plan to the other presents no difficulty. The numbers appearing on the Tramway Plan correspond with the official numbers of the tramway-lines. A plan of the inner town on a larger scale has been added to the present edition. The list of Hotels and Restaurants given in the Handbook comprises the most important establishments and many of humbler pretensions. Those which the Editor has reason to believe especially worthy of commendation in proportion to their charges are denoted by asterisks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.