American architect and architecture Volume 20 - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ...and none but the aged pair who came there in the flush and heyday of youth are left to bear witness. There is a something about these pine trees that is wonderfully fascinating to me. I look up at their tall, trim, soldierly bodies and try to imagine how many lifetimes old they are. The dust of many generations of men must mingle around their strong roots. Could they but speak and tell of the scenes they have witnessed I Ah I they do speak, if you will but bend your ear to watch their low, soft whispers as I have done so many, many times. They have taught me things deeper than the love of the woods, and in my The " Poor Sinner's " Belt, At Brebi.au.--The city of Breslau celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of an occurrence which was memorable in the history of the town and is known wherever German poetry finds a home. The bell which hangs in the southern tower of St. Mary Magdalen's Church and is named " St. Mary's bell," but is usually known as "the poor sinner's bell," rang out morning and evening on.the 17th of July to remind all who heard it that it was cast on that day 500 years ago. Next day (Sunday) the preacher reminded his congregation of the pathetic story which has made it singular among bells, how, when all was ready for casting, the bell-founder withdrew for a few moments, leaving a boy in charge of the furnace, warning him not to meddle with the catch that secured the seething metal in the cauldron. But the boy disregarded the caution, and then, terrified on seeing the molten metal beginning to flow into the mould, called to the bell-founder for help. Rushing in and seeing what he had intended to be his masterpiece ruined, as he thought, angered to madness, he slew the boy on the spot. When the metal had cool...