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Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ew how tobe at once formal and natural. There was a widesweep of lawn where old women and bullocks andrustic wains were busied with haycocks among longrows of marble deities and urns. In the middle ofthe scene a fountain flashed high in the sunlight, fall-ing among rough rocks. Humorous lines of NoahsArk evergreens stood attention. In the distance, be-yond a linden-flanked canal, were waterfalls; andone caught a glimpse of the misty horizon. Rightand left, narrower lanes of foliage opened vistas ofwater-flecked lawns checkered with patches of sun-light. Far away gleamed little pools, as bright aspools of molten steel, and near one of them I cameupon a dream of a summer-house called the Amalien-burg, one of the most delicate and radiant bits ofrococo fantasy in the German land. Munich is so diffuse a city that it is hard to think ofit as a unit until one has seen it from some high place.It was a revelation to me when I climbed past thechimes of The Old Peter to the town-pipers bal- 338
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THE NEW RATHAUS IN THE MIDDLE GROUND, AND THE TOWERS OF THECHURCH OF OUR LADY IX THE DISTANCE MUNICH-A CITY OF GOOD NATURE cony. There lay the city as flat as a lake. To thewestward was a jumble of sharp, tiled roofs, turningthe skylights of myriad studios searchingly towardheaven, as though the houses were all bespectacledprofessors. Beyond the eloquent front of St.Michaels rose the court of justice in all its dignity,with the humorous annex which the murderer beggedto see. The Church of Our Lady towered over oldJNIunich, symbol of the warm South-German heart.Immediately to the north rose that mount of mar-ble the New Rathaus, a, reminder of Milan cathe-dral, in its dazzling, restless opulence, and with atouch of the theatrical manner seen beside the quietcomeliness and reserve of the Old Rathaus. Beyond,the Pitti-like fa9ade of the palace stood out againstthe soft leagues of the English Garden. Eastwardthe Maximilianeums perforated front reposed like awell-kept ruin amid the luxuria

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