Lincoln centennial number . overpower its private neighbors; while theGewandhaus wTas influenced even furtherby them, for it shows traces of the com-pactness and conservatism of timber con-struction. Each of these is a type of the municipalarchitecture of its period. The richnessand interest of the Rathaus come whollyfrom a two-storied Gothic colonnade,filled with tracery and gargoyles andSaxon princes under delicate is a happy instance of that self-re-straint, unusual in Germany, which hasmade poems of Brunswicks windingstreets. There the builders would allowno house to lord it
Lincoln centennial number . overpower its private neighbors; while theGewandhaus wTas influenced even furtherby them, for it shows traces of the com-pactness and conservatism of timber con-struction. Each of these is a type of the municipalarchitecture of its period. The richnessand interest of the Rathaus come whollyfrom a two-storied Gothic colonnade,filled with tracery and gargoyles andSaxon princes under delicate is a happy instance of that self-re-straint, unusual in Germany, which hasmade poems of Brunswicks windingstreets. There the builders would allowno house to lord it over the others, andhere in the Rathaus the entire effectcomes from a tenfold repetition of onetheme. The Gewandhaus, as it looks down thesweep of the Post-Strasse, seems to fusein itself all the elements of the GermanRenaissance—the Italians fondness for aclassical play of proportion, his conserva-tive adherence to certain medieval effects,and the reckless passion of the Low Coun-tries for picturesque, unstructural orna-. jyOertriide \V urlnb. Half-tune plate engraved by R, \ a OLD HOUSES IN THE REICHENSTRASSE
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