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Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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spoil on his native city. In 1807 Napoleon caused it to be conveyed to Paris, but when peace was concluded it was returned to its place in St. Marys. In the Jopen Gasse a house of many gables bears this inscription, which many pious Germans have adopted as a motto that finds a place in the entrance hall of their homes : Here houses strong and fair to see We build, though were only guests. For the land where we for ever shall be We hardly build us nests. LÜBECK As the stranger arrives at Lübeck, the first object that meets his gaze is the Holstein Gate. He stands in mute amazement at the immensit yof this red-brick building. Its ponderous mass is relieved by its two splendid towers, and the graceful archway between. It is in a perfect state of preservation, though it was standing when Luther was a boy at school, and when Columbus discovered America. As we go along the streets and look into the stationers shops, we never MARIENBURG FROM THE NOGAT The two round towers on the right flank the watergate.
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\^4 ON THE SHORES OF THE BALTIC 209 fail to see in any of them a postcard with this motto : That the fairest maidens in all the land Dwell in Lübeck s acknowledged on every hand. The city must be proud of her daughters when she so persistently urges this claim. We find so much to admire, so much to delight us in street and square, in church and market place, that it is a moot point whether Hildesheim or Lübeck has a right to the title, the Nuremberg of the North, to which both aspire. The market square, with the Post Office on the one side, St. Marys Church on the other, and the City Hall between them, does not present such mediaeval magnificence as the square at Hildesheim. A visit to the City Hall and a walk round the aisles and chapels of St. Marys compel us to acknowledge that, if Hildesheim Square in its outward appearance surpasses that of this old Hansa town, it has nothing to show comparable to the treasures which Lübeck hides. A visit to the City Hall convinces us that this little city wa

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