A ROOM IN AI.BRE;CHT DURER S home in NUREMBERG, GERMANY 



Diirer was one of Germany's greatest painters and engravers, and his artistic career 

 stands out among those of his fellow great among the Germans by being marked with 

 universal honor and recognition while still in his prime. His friendships reached to every 

 land where Western habits of thought reached. 



THE GABEED CITIES OE THE HARZ 



Better known are all ihese cities to the 

 average tourist than Miinster. Either 

 they lie upon traveled highroads or they 

 make definite demand for attention, or 

 they are set in a loveliness that will not 

 be ignored. All about the green Harz 

 Mountains lie these quaint old gabled 

 cities, looking up to hills that afford such 

 pleasant summer journeyings. Buttressed 

 by hoary history, golden with romance, 

 rich in beautiful architecture and in the 

 wisdom to cherish it, readily reachable 

 from Hannover or Berlin, what wonder 

 that Hildesheim's jewel, the Knochen- 

 hauer Amthaus (p. 122), Braunschweig's 

 Burg, Wernigerode's Rathaus, are the 

 traveler's familiar friends ! 



More familiar still are Nuremberg's 

 stately gables, the scarcely less preten- 



tious ones of her neighbors. Rothenburg 

 has become a show place, a museum ; 

 Nordlingen has been discovered ; even 

 Dinkelsbiihl has its visitors, and its gables 

 appear upon post-cards. I should have 

 known better than to give the title to 

 Aliinster; Miinster, so off the beaten 

 trail, so unbe friended by nature, so slight- 

 ed by romance, so inconspicuous in his- 

 tory ; Mi^lnster, which rarely sees the for- 

 eign traveler, never the tourist, and is 

 profoundly indifferent about it. 



Yet let her keep the title. Have we 

 not already remembered her gray houses 

 through a score of years ? Even in Mein- 

 hardshof at Braunschweig, by the Tauber 

 beneath Rothenburg's walls, on Wurz- 

 burg's stately bridge, in Nuremberg's 

 market-place, we have recalled right 

 pleasantly her dim, shadowy arches and 

 tall gables. Yes, let her keep the name. 



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