BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH 6 9 
and we spoke together in French, since he spoke little English 
and I understood little German.” 
She had caught a bad cold, so that in spending some time 
in seeking for a Russian bath, she missed seeing the Botanical 
Garden, Museum, and Laboratory which she greatly regretted. 
She says, “The effort ought to have been made.” 
At the quaint old city of Nuremburg, in spite of her sore 
throat and chest, and the intensely disagreeable weather 
which greeted her with hail and snow, she found great plea¬ 
sure in all the curiosities there displayed,— the Roman tower, 
the Castle, and the instruments of punishment used during 
the Middle Ages; the fascinating houses and churches. Some 
of these “infernal means of torture,” with their brutal 
humorous names, she depicted with her pencil. A sketch of 
St. Lawrence’s church spire adorns her manuscript. She was 
amazed at the wretched taste displayed in restoring some of 
the rooms in the Schloss, and their furnishings of “common 
dark paper and mean furniture,” but the wonderful views 
across the country delighted her. She spent some time in 
Albrecht Dürer’ s house. One little glimpse of the interior 
which she gives might have been painted by Dürer himself:— 
“An old man, the janitor’s father, lives at the top of the 
house. He is a distinguished glass painter. He is nearly 
eighty years old. His room was scrupulously clean though very 
simply furnished. His windows were adorned with bits of 
painted glass, — copies from Albrecht Dürer’s paintings. In 
the corner, between the stove and a window, were the easel, 
stool, painting brushes, the old clock hung on the wall, a set 
of pipes. The colors were in a little chest of drawers. The old 
man must have been a lover of art, for a copy of the Sistine 
Madonna hung on the wall. Two soft, lovely cats kept the 
old man company. He had placed a sheet of paper on a chair 
for one cat, but the other cat had to be satisfied with a stool 
before the fire.” 
She also visited the old Rathhaus, the courtyard of which 
dates from 1340. The building, with its wooden ceiling and 
quaint chandeliers, and its enormous paintings by Dürer, is 
now used for concerts. At the Church of Our Lady, a wed- 
