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always recalls the university town with feelings of decided 
pleasure. The quaintness and character of most of these 
towns, especially in South Germany, furnish a pictorial set- 
ting to his experience and work that is wholly new to him. 
Strassburg, a city of about 115,000 people, has an individu- 
ality greater than most cities. From its strategical import- 
ance it has been much fought over, and a variety of owner- 
ship has given it a mixed population and a mixed language. 
One sees on its narrow streets the dark complexion and reg- 
ular, handsome features of the Frank combined with the 
strong frame of the German, and hears both languages 
spoken by the same person with equal fluency. And the 
LARGE GREENHOUSE IN BoTANIC GARDEN. 
ence of a garrison 0 ae ; 
Geethe took his degree in the university, studied here 
Herder, Lenz, Lavater and Stil 
and square, and with many oft ; E 
and haonneved roofs and rich wood ph — 
to four centuries, and especially when he Sore s 
attractive of the old Gothic cathedrals and the Sy 
nessed in and around it, he can readily td ae \ 
the exiled Strassburger is always said to feel. 
Strassburg. 
