House and Garden 
seventy-eight different towns. German 
schools have a high reputation in Amer¬ 
ica, and though the public schools in the 
United States are certainly not inferior to 
them, in Germany more attention is paid 
to the outsides of the buildings. Even 
the admirable new public schools of New 
York Citv, comprising all the modern im¬ 
provements, to the extent of a roof-garden, 
—a thing entirely unknown in Germany, 
—have no such imposing exteriors as the 
schoolhouses of first-class German cities, 
and can boast no such splendid entrance 
as the model illustrated on this page of the 
147th Public School in Berlin. 
Especially did the new rathhaus or town 
hall buildings show what an important part 
exterior art and architecture plays in Ger¬ 
man city life ; and in the opinion of the 
writer, Germany is in this regard far ahead 
of America, a fact which is well proven in 
the graceful architecture in the new town 
hall for the City of Hamburg. This hall 
is in a rich German Renaissance style and 
was built by four architects between the 
years 1885 and 1897, and is much more 
successful as an object of civic use and 
ornament than equally important works 
in many other countries. It is not a large 
building, from an American point of view, 
as it has only four stories according to the 
MODEL OF THE ENTRANCE TO THE 
I47TH PUBLIC SCHOOL IN BERLIN 
THE STRASBURG EXHIBIT 
The Model of the Church of St. Peter 
