. Romantic Germany. ASCKNT TO THE MEISSEN period as those on the famous Rathaus in Breslau,and aknost as grossly humorous. I like to think that from this fair Castle Moun-tain Christianity and culture spread in waves throughcentral Germany, and that it was the base for thegreat military expeditions by which the hero Al-brecht helped to lay for Saxony the foundations ofnational unity. The porcelain factory in the Triebisch-Thal, in-teresting as it is, has quite unjustly monopolized thefame of Meissen. And a glimpse of the Burg fromthe riverside, a ramble up the Ascent of Souls, o
. Romantic Germany. ASCKNT TO THE MEISSEN period as those on the famous Rathaus in Breslau,and aknost as grossly humorous. I like to think that from this fair Castle Moun-tain Christianity and culture spread in waves throughcentral Germany, and that it was the base for thegreat military expeditions by which the hero Al-brecht helped to lay for Saxony the foundations ofnational unity. The porcelain factory in the Triebisch-Thal, in-teresting as it is, has quite unjustly monopolized thefame of Meissen. And a glimpse of the Burg fromthe riverside, a ramble up the Ascent of Souls, or amoment in the cloister of the cathedral, is far to bepreferred to a whole Triebisch-Thal full of Meissenservices and rococo figurines. 273. IX DRESDEN-THE FLORENCEOF THE ELBE ,N Dresden I began to realize that thecharm of Leipsic lay in the quaint atmos-phere of its old buildings, among whicheven trade had grown romantic, in the airi-ness of the many squares, in a village-likeflavor of homely intimacy caught amid the modernprose of a commercial city. Meissen had been some-thing beyond experience, a dream of strange in Dresden I found a beauty very real and tan-gible, directly arousing, without complicated equip-ments of antiquity, the instant response of the plea-sure-loving human heart, like a voluptuous melodyon the cello. My eighteenth-century lodgings in Jews Courtgave upon the New Market, where petty trades-people from every part of central Germany werepreparing for one of Dresdens characteristic Jahr-mdrkte, or fairs, which take place three times in the 274 DRESDEN year. Every one was building himself a rude woodenbooth, as for some Christian Feast of Tabernacles,while the porcelain merchants about the Ch
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