Harper's new monthly magazine . lue Bohemian mountains, and, tothe west, on all the dark summits of the Fich-telgebirge. The villages shone white and redin the sun; the meadow-ponds were sapphiresset in emerald, and the dark-purple tint of theforests mottled the general golden-green lustreof the landscape. A quarter of an hour furtheris the Haberstein, a wonderful up-building ofrock, forming a double tower, from eighty to ahundred feet high. On returning to Wunsiedel I did not neglectto visit Jean Pauls birth-place—a plain, sub-stantial house, adjoining the church. Here thestreet forms a small


Harper's new monthly magazine . lue Bohemian mountains, and, tothe west, on all the dark summits of the Fich-telgebirge. The villages shone white and redin the sun; the meadow-ponds were sapphiresset in emerald, and the dark-purple tint of theforests mottled the general golden-green lustreof the landscape. A quarter of an hour furtheris the Haberstein, a wonderful up-building ofrock, forming a double tower, from eighty to ahundred feet high. On returning to Wunsiedel I did not neglectto visit Jean Pauls birth-place—a plain, sub-stantial house, adjoining the church. Here thestreet forms a small court, in the centre of which,on a pedestal of gianite, stands a bronze bustof the great man. The inscription is: Wun-siedel to her Jean Paul Fr. Mic/iter/1 Nothingcould be simpler or more appropriate. In front,the broad street, lined with large, cheerful yel-low or pink houses, stretches down the hill andcloses with a vista of distant mountains. Theplace is very gay, clean, and attractive, notwith- ?•?^. TiUJS FAB, AND NO 158 HARPERS NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.


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