A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . visited theSenate Room, rebuilt in the rococo stylein 1754-60 and decorated with allegoricalpaintings by Torelli of Bologna. The doorto this room dates from 1573 and has an in-scription on it in Low Dutch that we no-ticed the guide had to translate for the Ger-man sight seers that happened to be alongwith our party. The inscription was in Ro-man text and many of the words lookedquite English, but along with them wereenough that were so strange to us as tomake it all unintelligible. After leaving thisroom, we ascended a noble st
A summer in northern lands; the journal of a trip to Scandinavia . visited theSenate Room, rebuilt in the rococo stylein 1754-60 and decorated with allegoricalpaintings by Torelli of Bologna. The doorto this room dates from 1573 and has an in-scription on it in Low Dutch that we no-ticed the guide had to translate for the Ger-man sight seers that happened to be alongwith our party. The inscription was in Ro-man text and many of the words lookedquite English, but along with them wereenough that were so strange to us as tomake it all unintelligible. After leaving thisroom, we ascended a noble stairway, thathad the walls of its landing adorned with amodern mural painting by Koch, represent-ing Henry the Lion receiving the homageof Lubeck. Whether the painting was in-tended to convey a lesson of loyalty to thepresent Empire, or to remind the citizensthat soon after the event depicted theygained their liberty and had only recentlylost it under another Empire, was not evi-dent, and for good and sufficient reasons Idid not seek enlightenment. At the head of. LuBECK Cathedral A SUMMER IN NORTHERN LANDS 147 the stairs is the Burgerschafts-Saal, a verymodern room also adorned with paintingsby Koch. From there we went to theKriegsstube, the ancient War Chamber,with its beautiful carved and inlaid panelsand a fine old sand stone mantle with ala-baster reliefs. Underneath the old buildingIS the Ratswelnkellerj with its remarkableGothic and late Romanesque vaultings andcolumns. In one of the rooms is a *ChimneyPiece which bears an inscription of 1575 inLow Dutch which, to say the least, is notvery gallant. It may be translated, Manya man sings loudly when they bring him hisbride; if he knew what they brought him,he might well weep. A very low (Dutch)remark about women. A little before noonwe took the train for Hamburg, where wearrived in time to have lunch at the Ham-burger Hof. Our hotel fronts on the busyJungfernstleg and across the way is theBinnen-Alster, a pretty lagoon of a
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