![]() ![]() Even the sun fails to get it both the photographer and the carver give you a dying lion, and that is all. There is a subtle something about the majestic pathos of the original which the copyist cannot get. But they are libels upon him, every one of them. I will not conceal the fact that miniature figures of the Lion of Lucerne are to be had in them. The commerce of Lucerne consists mainly in gimcrackery of the souvenir sort the shops are packed with Alpine crystals, photographs of scenery, and wooden and ivory carvings. Then right away the organist would let go another avalanche. It is true, there were some soft and merciful passages occasionally, but the tramp-tramp of the tourists only allowed one to get fitful glimpses of them, so to speak. Meantime the big organ is booming and crashing and thundering away, doing its best to prove that it is the biggest and loudest organ in Europe, and that a tight little box of a church is the most favorable place to average and appreciate its powers in. ![]() This tramping back and forth is kept up nearly all the time, and is accented by the continuous slamming of the door, and the coughing and barking and sneezing of the crowd. ![]() They don't stay to hear all of it, but get up and tramp out over the sounding stone floor, meeting late comers who tramp in in a sounding and vigorous way. All summer long the tourists flock to that church about six o'clock in the evening, and pay their franc, and listen to the noise. THE Hofkirsche is celebrated for its organ concerts. ![]()
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