A more familiar sight to an English eye is the seat-filled area of the German churches. Confessedly it is one of the home associations which one least cares to see reproduced, but the pews of the German churches are less objectionable than our own; they are lower, and not so crowded, and ample space is always left for processions, so they interfere far less with the architectural design.
[1] At page 145.
[2] ‘Feigen-Kaffee,’ made of figs roasted and ground to powder, is sold throughout Austria.
[3] Aubrey de Vere’s Greece and Turkey.
[4] Burglechner. A.D. 1409.
[5] Mineral wealth—lit. Mountain-blessing.
[6] I was told there that it had been reckoned that 500,000 cigars are smoked per diem in Tirol.
[7] The date of death on the tombstone of Lukas Hirtzfogel, whom tradition calls the architect of this church, is 1475.
[8] Brush for sprinkling holy-water.