A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ey were by far the best looking ofthose present. Thursday, September the Johanneum there is a wonderfulcollection of arms and armor. The mostinteresting part of it is the display of Tilt-ing Armor that formerly belonged to SaxonPrinces and nobles of the sixteenth century,but the collection of wheel-lock pistolsshould not be overlooked as it is probablythe finest in existence. In the afternoon, Iwent back to the Art Museum to look upthe eighteenth century paintings of theFrench School. There are some very goodWatteaus and
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . ey were by far the best looking ofthose present. Thursday, September the Johanneum there is a wonderfulcollection of arms and armor. The mostinteresting part of it is the display of Tilt-ing Armor that formerly belonged to SaxonPrinces and nobles of the sixteenth century,but the collection of wheel-lock pistolsshould not be overlooked as it is probablythe finest in existence. In the afternoon, Iwent back to the Art Museum to look upthe eighteenth century paintings of theFrench School. There are some very goodWatteaus and several of Lancrets gay lit-tle canvases, but nothing extraordinary. Friday, September 26. We are on the train bound for after leaving Dresden the valley ofthe Elbe contracts and becomes a rocky gorgeor canon and the scenery, as a consequence,is quite interesting. Large quantities ofbuilding stone for use in Dresden have beenquarried from the cliffs along the river, butmost of it was taken so long ago, that kindMother Nature has done much to hide the. w A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 165 scars With a mantle of verdure. On enter-ing Bohemia, the valley widens out into atableland and there are extensive farms onboth sides of the road that are mostlyplanted to sugar-beets, but occasionally wepass a field that is devoted to the cultivationof hops. In some of the beet fields the peas-ants were at work and several times in thesame field, but at some distance away, wesaw a group of deer feeding; however, theywere always does and fawns that were prob-ably protected by law from being one or two bucks, we saw, were in fieldswhere no one was about and seemed quitewild. We arrived in Prague along towardsthe middle of the afternoon and, soon afterreaching the hotel, Maud, Marian and Ifared forth on adventure bent. The PowderTower, one of the ancient gates of the oldwalled city, stands across the street from ourhotel. It is a quaint, old Gothic structureand after admiring
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