. Romantic Germany. th acharming roof-line, which bends gracefully downtoward the river, where boatmen, their poles bracedagainst a pile, walk their boats up-stream with acurious effect. It is good to find water-grasses act-ually growing at the foot of the Krogl, a strangesight within the limits of this stern city. On oneworn wooden portal one notices a remnant of thebeautiful iron tracery of the Renaissance. Youpass through an arch by the waterside into a morepicturesque alley. On one hand is a house the upperstory of which projects as do those in the streetsof Brunswick and Hildesheim, but i
. Romantic Germany. th acharming roof-line, which bends gracefully downtoward the river, where boatmen, their poles bracedagainst a pile, walk their boats up-stream with acurious effect. It is good to find water-grasses act-ually growing at the foot of the Krogl, a strangesight within the limits of this stern city. On oneworn wooden portal one notices a remnant of thebeautiful iron tracery of the Renaissance. Youpass through an arch by the waterside into a morepicturesque alley. On one hand is a house the upperstory of which projects as do those in the streetsof Brunswick and Hildesheim, but its corbels mustbe in the real old style of vanished Berlin, for theyare unique. And this house actually lurks in theheart of the German capital opposite a wall blessedwith a blind colonnade and the rich patina of another arch you pause to look through adoorway into a dusky hole where three Rembrandt-ish broom-makers are dipping yellow straws into apot of pitch. The glare of charcoal is on their pale, 68. TUL. JANinvnz liKIlK,! (i\ THE SlRLIj. BERLIN worn faces and dark beards. Two doves coo on theperch just outside the tiny smoke-blackened win-dow. Hasten, traveler, oh, hasten, if you wouldenjoy the last of old Berlin! For the Krogl maysoon be condemned by the same power that period-ically scours the statues in the Sieges-Allee. A sunset on the Spree, seen from one of the upperbridges, is well worth while. The traffic teemingon the glassy, rosy surface where it broadens into awide basin, the bridge-lights stabbing the water be-tween boats, the irregular old fa9ades of the rightbank backed by the massive tower of the Rathausand the twin spires of the Church of St. Nicholas;the bulk of the Provincial Museum, the domes ofcathedral and castle,—all these compose in the half-light into a picture containing more of the elementsof romance than one had dreamed that the city pos-sessed. Only three of the old churches, all begun in thethirteenth century, are noteworthy.
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