File:Freiburg im Breisgau, by Edward Theodore Compton, 1912.jpg

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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
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ground below in safety. The drive leads us to Gernsbach with its ancientbridge, its river beloved of anglers, and its fineparish church. Passing Roth enfels, we turn asideto see La Favorite, the castle where that beautifulwoman Countess Sybilla indulged her vanity, andinflicted tortures upon herself in her old ageto expiate the fashionable follies of her youth.Thence we pass through Rastatt, that formerfortress, with its memories of the Rastatt Congressof 1799, when the French plenipotentiaries weremurdered by a company of Hungarian hussars—an event that sent a thrill of horror throughoutall the world. We are back again in Baden in time for theevening concert. We join the great throng on thePromenade, and have a constant delight in thelittle boutiques filled with Bohemian glass, withlaces, and everything that tempts the tourist. Some twenty-five years ago Edmund Yates FREIBURG-IM-BREISGAU Seen from the Schlossberg and looking across theRhine valley to the Vosges mountains in Alsace.
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STRASBURG AND THE BLACK FOREST 13 wrote an article on Baden-Baden which he entitledAn old Love. He spoke of the Russian Chapel,and the Hamilton Palace, and the hot springs thatcure men in summer and heat the churches inwinter; of Millers Bank and Bergners Store, andTiroler Haag, the seller of famous deerskin gloves ;and Friiulein Marx, whom he declared to look asyoung as she did when she sold him books fortyyears before. His article woke a responsive echo inthe hearts of all those who have come under themagical charm of the Queen of German Water-ing-places, the Pride of the Black Forest. The Black Forest Let us take a run round the Black Forest. Wewish to see its dark hills and bright green valleys,its hardy woodsmen and its peasant wood-carvers,so well depicted for us in Souvestres TheSculptor of the Black Forest; its industriousstraw-piaiters, its cuckoo-clock makers, and thepicturesque costumes of its peasant population. We cannot do better than visit a typical farm-house. We note

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