House & Garden 
OTHENBURG ON THE TAU¬ 
BER. By Rudolph Kempf* 
Joseph Pennell long ago claimed for 
Le Puy the distinction of being the most 
picturesque place in Europe, and he made out 
a good case. But the lovers of Rothenburg 
are many and ardent and few of them are 
willing to admit that any place can equal in 
is modern make-believe, no one who has seen 
the two will deny. Nuremberg seems to 
many travellers the embodiment of all that is 
alt-deutsch , but Nuremberg is after all a thriv¬ 
ing modern city reminiscent of the past, while 
Rothenburg is a fossilized specimen left from 
earlier ages. The town stands on an emi¬ 
nence about the foot of which the little river 
THE KOBELZELLERTHOR TOWER 
GABLE OF THE RATHAUS 
picturesqueness the old town on the Tauber. 
That it has a genuine and unspoiled medie¬ 
valism, compared with which that of Chester 
♦ALT-ROTHENBURG. Eine Sammlung malerischer 
Architekturstiicke von Rudolph Kempf. 13" x 19". 4 pp. ; 
30 pi. Frankfurt a. M., Heinrich Keller; New York Paui 
Wenzel. 1900. Price $10.70 
winds. From whatever side one gains a 
general view of it, its most obvious feature is 
the ancient wall that completely encircles it. 
Erected about the middle of the fourteenth 
century, this wall has even to-day all the 
accompaniments deemed proper by the mili- 
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