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Title: Little journeys abroad
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Warren, Mary Bowers Boughton, George Henry, 1834-1905, ill Sacker, Amy M., binding designer
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Publisher: Boston : Joseph Knight Co.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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_ ;s; aearly heught ; J is:aaucrc IV: ralare ~as aIs: :: : .. r sou. in a ;. ::. ::i:e n6 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. a long, low building, and we found littleto admire in the architecture. The orchid-houses are kept up, but the flowers ofcourse are reserved. There were histor-ical portraits in the picture-gallery, someby Sir Peter Lely, the German artistwho, transferring his talents to the Englishcourt, painted for Charles I., Cromwell,and Charles II. We were later to becomevery familiar with a picture of his inEngland, — a graceful figure of NellGwynne, to which we became so attachedthat hereafter we shall always think kindlyof the subject as wrell as of the picture.The gardens were really pretty. Thestraight walks were lined with clipped,formal hedges, and had flower-beds, wherea few late flowers were still blooming, andin one place wras a turf-carpeted sylvantheatre, where the ladies and gentlemenof the court used to act in Schillers plays.At the end of a gravelled walk is a seated
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CHARACTER HEAD, HANOVER. HANOVER. 119 statue of the Electress Sophia, who diedsuddenly, while sitting in these gardens,and in the Mausoleum is a fine recum-bent figure of Queen Frederica, by Rauch.The trees of course were bare, but wecould understand that in summer the leafyavenues had a beauty of their own. Hildesheim, they told us, was a curiousold town, and called the birthplace ofGerman art. The excursion could be madein an afternoon ; so thither we went to seethe ancient cathedral and the rose-treeeight hundred years old. In the square,the street of the old market, and the streetback of it, are curious houses, showingobsolete styles of domestic architecture;and in the Langenhagen is the residenceof some notability who was honored by anentire facade of carved stone-work. Theold German character is sustained through-out the town, even the new buildingsbeing built in imitation of the old, and 120 LITTLE JOURNEYS ABROAD. the hotel, where we stopped for an hoursrest, being furnished t

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