CHAPTER V.LENNESTRASSE .-- LENNE .-- EARLY IMPRESSIONS.
Lennestrasse is the scene of the period of my life which began with my return from Holland.

If, coming from the Brandenburg Gate, you follow the Thiergarten and pass the superb statue of Goethe, you will reach a corner formed by two blocks of houses.

The one on the left, opposite to the city wall, now called Koniggratz, was then known as Schulgartenstrasse.

The other, on the right, whose windows overlooked the Thiergarten, bore the name in my childhood of Lennestrasse, which it owed to Lenne, the park superintendent, a man of great talent, but who lives in my memory only as a particularly jovial old gentleman.
He occupied No.

1, and was one of my mother's friends.