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Identifier: romanticgermany00scha (find matches)
Title: Romantic Germany
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Schauffler, Robert Haven, 1879-1964
Subjects: Cities and towns -- Germany Germany -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Century Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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use they answered the night-watch evasively. It came out in the examinationthat they had been trying to conjure up his Satanicmajesty. They had carried to a field outside thecity a sack of firewood, a number of wax candles, aspirit-lamp, and a cornucopia of salt. They hadlighted the fire, the candles and the lamp, had offeredup the salt on the latter, and had prayed fervidly foran hour; but no devil! The wood burned up, thecandles down; but still no devil. Loud recrimina-tions on the way home led to their arrest. In Krodelspocket was found a Book of Spirits. The title-page ran as follows: The Seven-sealed Book of the Greatest Secrets: Secret Art School of Magic Wonder-forces, Angel-help for Defense and Protection at Direst Need. The Book of Holy Salt, The True Fiery Dragon. There was a book-mark at the chapter on How toConjure up Lucifer. There are still other points of resemblance be-tween the city and Tyll Eulenspiegel. Brunswickliked Tyll because he was no respecter of persons. 148
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BKUNSWICK Tyll liked Brunswick for the same reason. Indeed,it is not strange that the place should be so demo-cratic, for it lies in that cradle of the Anglo-Saxonrace between the Harz Mountains, the Elbe, and theRhine and has obstinately preserved the old breedand the old speech. It has always been plebeian inspirit, and was one of the first Northern communitiesto fight for democracy—a fight prolonged in vain forfour centuries. Because it is such an excellent typeof a Low-German city, it is a shame that the lateinvasion of the High-German tongue should haverestored its mellow Saxon name of Brunswykinto Braunschweig. But its medieval democratic spirit has never beenrestored away from those incomparable streets,and to this day fills many of the public buildingswith its poetry. The Rathaus of the Old-Town wasdesigned with a true feeling for municipal propor-tion so that it might not overpower its private neigh-bors; while the Gewandhaus was influenced evenfurther by them, for it shows

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