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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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e does not lack criti-cal sense, defining, for instance, the Secession schoolof painting as art which, if you would be cultivated,you must like at all events—whether you like it ornot. Because Dresden has the advantages of a largecity with but few of its drawbacks, it is so popularwith Anglo-Saxons as to have an English and anAmerican quarter. It is rich in painting, sculpture,music, and architecture; has fine theaters and inter-esting personalities; is charmingly situated andwithin a short ride of Saxon Switzerland, the mostattractive miniature mountain range in Germany:and yet the individual still counts among its half-million people—counts even to the verge of towngossip. Despite the size of the city, neighborlinessand sociability flourish like the roses of the Zwinger;and any novelty like a horse-race or an Englishmanin knickerbockers lays hold of the united civic imag-ination. Dresden combines the advantages of the metropo-lis with the humanity of the village, and one can 294
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DRESDEN easily forgive it for outdoing Leipsic in credulity,servility, and greed for titles, and for falling behindits neighbor in business methods. The best place to meet the Dresdener is on theBriihl Terrace, the balcony of Europe, as it wasonce christened by an enthusiast. Its daisy-coveredwalls were a part of the fortifications before Briilil,the all-powerful minister of August II, in 1736,made them over into his private gardens. It was thrown open to the public in 1814. Fromthe waterside, passages may still be seen leading tothe ancient dungeons, now used for the imprison-ment of beer. On the corner, under the Belvedere,is a crude relief of the Elector Moritz being forcedby a skeleton—a bone-man, as the Germans say—to hand over the electoral sword to his brotherAugust. This very sword is now in the Johanneum, an oldbuilding in which the historical museum and theroyal collection of porcelain lodge informally abovethe royal stables. The portal of the courtyard is themost repres

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