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...Germanic Museum has received as a gift from the city government of Nuremberg, Germany, a cast of the relief of the town weigher from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall of that city. The cast, which is about six feet in height by eight feet wide, will be mounted on the west wall of the museum...
...relief, belonging to the year 1497, is of historical as well as artistic interest. The town-weigher stands in the midst; on his left is the merchant whose wool is being weighed, and on his right an attendant is adding weights to the scales. The whole composition is an admirable scene from German mediaeval life...
...Germanic Museum and the University Library have recently been presented with several gifts from Germany. The city of Nuremburg has decided to give to the museum a cast of Adam Kraft's relief of the "Town Weigher" from the facade of the Wool Merchants' Guild Hall in that city. It portrays the town weigher standing in the midst of a group watching the balancing of his scales, thus rendering a graphic scene from primative German burgher life...
...conclusions he arrives at, he is less zealous in his desire that all mankind should agree with him. Moreover, the longer one studies, the more thoroughly does one persuade himself that till he knows everything, he knows nothing,-that after twenty years of criticism one is still a mere weigher and gauger:-skilled only to judge what he may chance to have been in the habit of inspecting at his own little provincial customhouse. And as one gets older he is apt to allow more for personal idiosyncrasy, and to have less certainly that the truth he has reached...