Excerpt from Weimar: The Athens of Germany Thur1ng1a, on the other hand, was poor. Men lived at home and studied economy. Frugality was everywhere respectable, and the government officers, living quietly and modestly, gave tone to society. Frankfort was the center of a stream of people constantly passing to and fro; while Wei mar was a small, out-of - the-way town. The Frankfort houses were palaces compared with the little homes ofweimar. Goethe was accus tomed to the bustle of a great city, to hurrying crowds and lively traffic; in Weimar, the streets were almost deserted. The pitiable impression which the city made at that time, with its walls and ditches and ruined castle, the poet speaks'of many a time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.