Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 219
, it will seem to you, notthreatening, not oppressive, l^ut a very land ofpoetry and dream. One of these royal residences is the Castle ofMainau, which for the last fifty years hasbelonged to the Grand Dukes of Baden. Itstands on an island some two miles in circum-ference rising gently from the… … Lake Constance from Schluss Mainau LAKE CONSTANCE the castle ; before it is a broad terrace adornedwith busts of the Roman emperors, with orangetrees and a riot of purple clematis. Across thelake the eye travels over green slopes and foreststo the mountains. All is calm and sunlit andhealth-giving…
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