. Romantic Germany. urembergs alloy of modernbuildings and the modern spirit put it out of thequestion. Neither were the dwellings of Danzigfriendly enough, nor its half-Slavic he cherished for its cathedral, but dislikedfor its people. In spite of all their romance and beauty,Regensburg and Bautzen were too somber, Augs-burg too formal. Cologne he would almost havechosen but for its discordant foreign note, its dirt,and its beggars. The houses of Liibeck were hardlybeautiful enough; those of Hildesheim, on the otherhand, were almost too self-conscious and brilliant andpr
. Romantic Germany. urembergs alloy of modernbuildings and the modern spirit put it out of thequestion. Neither were the dwellings of Danzigfriendly enough, nor its half-Slavic he cherished for its cathedral, but dislikedfor its people. In spite of all their romance and beauty,Regensburg and Bautzen were too somber, Augs-burg too formal. Cologne he would almost havechosen but for its discordant foreign note, its dirt,and its beggars. The houses of Liibeck were hardlybeautiful enough; those of Hildesheim, on the otherhand, were almost too self-conscious and brilliant andprecious. One cannot hold a treasure-casket inwarm, human affection. And so, although he prefers the gemutlicli southerntemperament to the northern, yet, all in all, he felthe must choose Brunswick. For the town of TyllEulenspiegel is almost unspoiled by the modernnote; its architecture is the spontaneous expressionof natures uniting Thuringian gaiety, sweetness, andtaste with Northern depth and sincerity. It is a 180. THE FRONT OF ST. ANDREWS, AS SEEN FROM THE WEBER-STRASSE BRUNSWICK hearty, wholesome, true kind of romance thatBrunswick exhales. And perhaps the democracy ofthe people, perhaps their humor, is what tipped thebeam, and made him love more than any other inGermany the town that is summed up by the viewof St. Catherines down the Hagenbriicke and bythe little old Backerklint where sits Tyll Eulen-spiegel, his monkeys heads rubbed bright by theloving hands of children. 183
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