Excerpt from A Summer in ScandinaviaIf the charm of a visit to Hamburg belongs to the present rather than the past, and to the verdure of summer rather than any merit of architecture or art, the fact that here is a free-born people is seen and felt at every turn. We read on the pages of history that Charlemagne was the founder of this town, and if this be true, no people could have been more loyal to their birthright. The last of the Hanseatic cities to give up its crown of liberty, proudly worn for centuries, it still claims the free dom of an independent State, although with limi tations as a member of the North German Empire.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.