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...shows that the gift of the German Emperor to the Germanic Museum will consist of a number of reproductions of German Sculpture, dating from the beginning of the eleventh to the end of the eighteenth century. The earliest works represented are the famous bronze doors of the cathedral at Hildesheim made in about 1015. The most modern piece is the marble statue of Frederick the Great, made by Gottfried Schadow at Stettin. The works vary in size from the masks of dying warriors over the Arsenal at Berlin, to the entire Golden Gate of the cathedral at Freiberg, which...