House & Garden 
THE COURTYARD 
SCHLOSS ENN 
In traveling; southward toward the first 
straggling streets of Neumarkt, the towers 
of Schloss Enn appear proudly inaccessible 
on the dark, green hillside above the little 
village ot Montan. The outer works have 
crumbled away and the road which leads to 
the gate is scarcely discernible. High bat¬ 
tlements, a picturesque succession of gables, 
the little belfry of the chapel, are dominated 
by graceful towers with erkers at each corner. 
The whole exterior depicts as much elegance 
as is afforded by any feudal building of the 
country. In the courtyard is a pictufesque- 
ness of a different kind, not obtained by a 
too facile surface elaboration, or by painted 
ornament, but by chimneys of capricious shape, 
cleverly-turned balusters, tall posts and lank 
brackets supporting tar-overhanging roofs. 
At the little village of Walsh-Michael the 
Adige is left behind, and turning westward 
through the narrow Rochetta defile, guarded 
by the lofty Torre della Visione, the broad 
Val di Non is entered. At the sight of an 
isolated eminence, crowned by Castle Cles, 
one imagines oneself in Italy. The frontier 
of two races has been passed and the pon¬ 
derous northern burgs are no more. The 
spirit of the buildings has defied the shifts 
oi political power which placed Austrian 
rulers over a Latin people. Renaissance 
and Italian Gothic are so intermingled that 
the combination is sometimes nondescript, 
but always original and suggestive. The 
radiance of Italy has dispelled the somber 
clouds which shadow the lives of the Teu¬ 
tons, and listless ease seeks surroundings of 
a brighter kind. Surfaces are decorated 
more elaborated and skilfully than before, 
pilasters and light mouldings appear, and 
proportions become more attenuated. The 
column is slender, and its cap is no longer a 
shapeless cube; but an abacus has been added, 
and the bell is fairly well carved. Interior 
wainscots have been discarded, for warmer 
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