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Title: Lincoln centennial number
Year: 1909 (1900s)
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Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Trumbull, Lyman, 1813-1896 Presidents
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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Drawn by Gertrude Wurmb. Half-tune plate engraved by C. W. Chadwick THE FRONT OF ST. ANDREWS, AS SEEN FROMTHE WEBERSTRASSE placed under the commercial ban, whichalmost ruined the citys prosperity. Butit took four centuries to break their spirit,and though the cause was finally lost, de-mocracy is still plainly written upon manyof their streets. Brunswicks most striking quality is thedelightfully homelike atmosphere that seems to pervade it. No doubt the con-servatism of a folk as rich as they insuperstition made for loyalty to the familyand the ancestral dwelling, and likewisethe democratic spirit led each citizento make his house his palace. Thesehumble builders stamped their work withtheir own personality as completely as 525
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THE ALTE WAAGE, LOOKING TOWARD ST. ANDREWS though they were sculptors and each housea model in moist clay. And they are thepersonalities of family men. Many of thestreets, like the Weberstrasse, the Hagen-brucke and Meinhardshof have been vir-tually unchanged since the sixteenthcentury, and they seem fairly to exudedomesticity. On coming out suddenly into one of the many squares, if you have alreadycaught the spirit of the place, your eyesseek first, not the great church or publicbuilding, but the row of old dwellingsopposite, glowing with color, redolentof romance. In that nucleus of Bruns-wick, the Burg-Platz, for example, one isaware of something more significant thanthe castle and the cathedral. For these BRUNSWICK-THE TOWN OF TYLL EULENSPIEGEL 527 sumptuous chords are a little sharp to thecitys real key-note, as one finds on catch-ing a glimpse of the dwellings oppositeand the crooked street into which theylead. This is the authentic key-note—acrooked street filled with half-ti

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