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Title: Germany;
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Dickie, James F., 1848- Compton, Edward Theodore, ill Compton, E. Harrison (Edward Harrison), ill
Subjects: Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ound the walls of thistemple thirty-four statues of the Goddess of Victoryare stationed. They are designed to call to ourremembrance how the thirty-four states of Germanyjoined hands and triumphantly freed the empirefrom the French domination. Down the Danube, at its junction with the Ilzand the Inn, lies Passau—the most romanticallysituated city in Germany. There is no scene onthe Danube, from its source in the Black Forestto its end in the Black Sea, that is equal to theview from the heights behind the town of Passau.Every visitor feels the charm of this fortress city.Yet the great majority of strangers rush throughit as though it had neither warlike bulwarks, nor acathedral of much beauty, nor a multitude of seven-teenth and eighteenth century buildings, that givePassau a stately, even queenly, aspect. The unionof the three rivers—the meeting of the waters—asseen from the heights is a lovely sight. The yellow-green Danube, the white Inn, and the dark waters MUNICH—PROPYLAEN
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BAVARIA 79 of the Ilz meet and make the beautiful blueDanube so celebrated in song. From this border fortress we turn our facestowards Nuremberg. An old folk-song says : Whoeer would see the German land And know the German heart,Needs but to go to Nuremberg, The home of German art. Thou city of Hans Sachs and Albert Dlirer, ofPeter Vischer and Camerarius, we rejoice to greetthee! We return to thee gladly, and we sigh forthee many a time and oft. Oh to see again thebeauty of thy lovely fountains, and walk besidethine ancient picturesque houses, and cross thyquaint bridges, and see thy river, over whichLongfellow has cast the glamour of his poeticgenius! Who knows thee not, thou ancient And greatly honoured town,Where Diirers art won triumphs And Sachs songs renown ? It is very interesting to arrive at Nuremberg atnight. In the glow of morning how the city burstsupon us with all its wonders ! Twenty years ago,before it began its mighty march of progress as anindustrial centre, one felt

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