Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Dr. Faust's wine bar and a Leipzig Exposition

Entrance to Auerbach's Keller, Leipzig
Passed in our short ramble the cellar in which Göthe lays the scene of Dr. Faust’s pranks—and said also to be the one in which [66] he himself frequently shrank at the carousing of his fellow students.

There being nothing of particular interest in the town to visit we walked into an Exposition, or kind of Mechanic Fair, where we found a small but really very fine collection of the diff[erent] specimens of Saxon manufacture, for all that I could see as good as English or Yankee--.  

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