Dickie, J. F. In the Kaiser's Capital 1910 [American Church in Berlin]

Dickie, J. F.  In the Kaiser's Capital. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1910. First edition. [2964] Very good blind & gilt stamped cloth hardcover, binding near-fine with bright gilt. 315 clean and unmarked pages, tight. Illustrated with frontispiece and 18 additional plates, predominately from photographs.   James Francis Dickie, D.D., Congregational minister, pastor of the American Church in Berlin from 1894 to 1908. This church was established to serve American students studying in that city. "Among the steadily increasing number of books on Germany written by Americans, the impressions and reminiscences of Dr. J. F. Dickie, pastor of the American church in Berlin, are the most unrestrictedly sympathetic. Owing to the kindness he has experienced there, says the author in the second chapter of his book, he claims almost a citizen's share and interest, as though he were a child of Imperial Berlin...To the visitor not contented with the tourist's field of vision...he has done an