Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876

The Friederichsstadt and Dorotheenstadt are those parts of the town with which the tourist is most familiar as places of residence and shopping; Cöln is the island on which stand the castle and the two museums; Old Berlin is the part beyond the Spree.

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A proposition has been recently made to the Fairmount Park Commissioners by Colonel Frank W. Etting, a Philadelphia lawyer of well-known taste and culture, to fit up the Mount Pleasant mansion in the fashion of Colonial times, he having at his command a sufficient quantity of furniture, pictures, china, etc. for the proper representation of a house of the best sort in those days. It is to be hoped that this generous offer may meet with the attention it deserves, as such a memorial could scarcely fail to prove a great attraction to our Centennial visitors. Mount Pleasant is fortunately associated with the memories of better men than Benedict Arnold. The brave Major Macpherson built the house for his own occupancy before the Revolutionary war, and General Baron Von Steuben passed a part of his honorable retirement there, dating his letters humorously from "Belisarius Hall, on the Schuylkill."

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See Letters and Papers relating to the Provincial History of Pennsylvania, by Mr. Thomas Balch.

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Life, Letters and Journals of George Ticknor. Boston: James R. Osgood & Co.

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Here is the sonnet, that the reader may judge for himself:

"The antique Babel, Empresse of the East,
Upreard her buildinges to the threatned skie;
And second Babell, Tyrant of the West,
Her ayry towers upraised much more high.
But, with the weight of their own surquedry,
They both are fallen, that all the earth did feare,
And buried now in their own ashes ly:
Yet shewing, by their heapes, how great they were.
But in their place doth now a third appeare,
Fayre Venice, flower of the last world's delight;
And next to them in beauty draweth neare,
But far exceedes in policie of right.
Yet not so fayre her buildinges to behold
As Lewkenor's stile that hath her beautie told."