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Eric Lease Morgan May 27, 2019 Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 50 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 77618 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 77 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 Paris 27 St. 26 England 25 London 22 french 22 Mr. 22 Europe 21 France 21 English 20 day 19 great 18 Rome 17 Italy 16 time 14 man 14 look 14 little 14 New 13 old 13 like 13 italian 11 roman 11 good 11 America 10 german 10 english 10 Mrs. 10 God 10 Church 9 american 9 Napoleon 9 Lord 9 CHAPTER 8 place 8 illustration 8 Venice 8 Rhine 8 Florence 7 Switzerland 7 Sir 7 Naples 7 King 7 Germany 6 thing 6 british 6 Pope 6 Peter 6 John 6 Dr. 6 Christ Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 7333 man 6939 day 6637 time 4635 place 3958 people 3749 thing 3676 city 3667 house 3608 country 3600 year 3558 way 3507 foot 3393 side 2858 part 2819 water 2775 one 2735 room 2721 hour 2699 woman 2688 life 2621 town 2594 hand 2507 mountain 2412 world 2399 street 2342 church 2307 eye 2214 night 2207 work 2199 head 2190 road 2166 nothing 2060 morning 2051 picture 1936 wall 1935 friend 1889 mile 1823 name 1770 tree 1754 child 1654 face 1629 stone 1607 lady 1597 air 1589 view 1569 sea 1566 scene 1549 river 1506 book 1481 door Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 24579 _ 2047 England 1943 Paris 1847 St. 1739 France 1608 London 1572 Mr. 1470 Rome 1339 English 1318 Europe 1280 Italy 1186 America 1015 French 963 de 950 Mrs. 813 New 764 Sir 744 Lord 742 Germany 734 God 692 Church 629 Venice 628 Napoleon 619 Nan 607 King 565 Mary 559 John 549 American 522 Katy 519 c. 517 Florence 515 Dr. 487 Jimmie 482 . 473 Pope 467 Rhine 463 Peter 447 York 447 Miss 442 San 437 Americans 432 la 432 Switzerland 406 CHAPTER 405 Christ 400 Russia 390 Jack 389 Sunday 384 Queen 383 Naples Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 38599 it 37192 i 24645 we 21602 he 16651 they 12005 you 9659 them 7893 me 7356 him 7176 she 6569 us 2734 her 1821 one 1734 himself 1316 themselves 1101 myself 1002 itself 575 ourselves 481 herself 249 yourself 127 ours 122 mine 94 thee 73 ''em 58 theirs 57 his 47 ''s 45 yours 37 hers 27 oneself 16 ye 15 em 6 thy 5 yt 5 ya 5 thyself 3 yourselves 3 whereof 3 these:-- 3 na 3 --they 2 yoo 2 uv 2 s 2 out,-- 2 je 2 hisself 2 gung''l 2 delf 2 d''oro Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 138011 be 41988 have 12138 do 11104 see 8524 say 8449 make 8339 go 6568 come 6289 take 5032 look 4883 find 4788 give 4701 know 4000 seem 3926 think 3787 get 3346 stand 3336 leave 3309 pass 2892 tell 2747 call 2257 hear 2100 feel 2040 keep 1906 bring 1905 live 1891 speak 1831 show 1718 lie 1687 sit 1685 write 1677 become 1657 begin 1628 put 1583 meet 1558 follow 1557 turn 1555 rise 1537 fall 1517 build 1508 bear 1492 ask 1485 carry 1473 enter 1464 appear 1454 hold 1451 walk 1406 run 1360 use 1341 reach Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 22166 not 10940 so 7815 very 7557 more 7357 great 6566 up 6323 here 6297 little 5762 old 5728 other 5368 most 5078 well 5039 out 4984 only 4969 good 4850 then 4803 now 4771 much 4544 many 4537 long 4327 as 3918 first 3635 down 3381 never 3225 there 3093 such 2950 even 2826 still 2799 same 2746 large 2691 high 2659 beautiful 2648 last 2597 too 2579 just 2361 few 2315 own 2227 small 2225 again 2221 also 2213 far 2212 ever 2201 fine 2183 away 2099 always 2058 once 2051 all 2001 however 1971 young 1951 whole Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1225 good 936 most 825 least 463 great 363 fine 305 high 202 large 165 bad 125 old 106 Most 98 rich 84 near 81 small 79 slight 74 strong 70 lovely 70 early 65 noble 58 late 58 deep 56 low 55 grand 48 pure 44 handsome 43 long 42 young 38 fair 38 eld 33 gay 32 dear 30 poor 30 bright 29 wild 28 sweet 28 pleasant 28 lofty 28 farth 26 simple 26 happy 24 short 23 soft 22 common 22 choice 21 warm 20 strange 20 proud 17 hard 17 full 17 cheap 17 brave Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4432 most 151 well 130 least 5 worst 4 goethe 3 long 3 finest 2 noblest 2 near 2 hard 1 washest 1 tempest 1 smartest 1 lest 1 handle 1 greatest 1 gayest 1 coldest 1 blankest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 gallica.bnf.fr 2 www.gutenberg.net Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 4 http://gallica.bnf.fr 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/0/3/26030/26030-h/26030-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/6/0/3/26030/26030-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- 1 ccx074@pglaf.org 1 andy@linxit.demon.co.uk Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 40 _ is _ 36 one does not 32 _ was _ 20 _ are _ 19 _ do _ 12 streets are narrow 11 people do not 11 streets are broad 10 people are not 9 _ is very 9 people are so 8 _ did _ 8 _ is not 8 country is so 8 men do not 8 one is not 8 time is not 7 day is not 7 one looks down 7 people were not 7 women are not 7 world has ever 6 _ see _ 6 _ was not 6 city is so 6 night came on 6 one did not 6 one had not 6 streets were full 5 _ does _ 5 _ have _ 5 day is over 5 man does not 5 men are not 5 one is quite 5 people were all 5 time is so 4 _ did not 4 _ do n''t 4 _ had _ 4 _ were _ 4 church is very 4 country is well 4 day was bright 4 day was so 4 eyes were full 4 house is now 4 house is still 4 house was full 4 man be rich Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 day is not distant 2 one is not afraid 2 time is not far 1 _ are no mercenaries 1 _ being no more 1 _ do not usually 1 _ had no foundation 1 _ has no care 1 _ has not yet 1 _ have no _ 1 _ having no acquaintance 1 _ is no more 1 _ is not _ 1 _ is not nearly 1 _ is not sacred 1 _ is not there 1 _ was no common 1 _ was not _ 1 _ was not necessary 1 _ were not here 1 church give no information 1 church is not half 1 church is not very 1 church knows no distinction 1 cities are not properly 1 city do not much 1 city is not prosperous 1 city is not utterly 1 countries are not abreast 1 country has not free 1 country have no more 1 country is not so 1 day are not only 1 day is no less 1 day is not far 1 day was no less 1 days are no happier 1 days are not now 1 days is not creative 1 eye sees no limit 1 feet are not clean 1 feet are not shod 1 hand had not yet 1 hand was no less 1 hand was not small 1 hands are not essential 1 hour was not congenial 1 hours is not unusual 1 hours were not unusual 1 house was not even Sizes of items; "Measures in words, how big is each item?" ---------------------------------------------------------- 204761 41233 198591 46451 167121 42009 166363 16327 152228 39179 151849 10939 148328 11535 123204 13945 121052 6931 118691 38869 108357 47644 106965 11013 96324 39384 93552 4551 85654 16445 82858 38127 82717 37947 81782 40238 80202 37889 79728 45026 76566 26030 75723 13367 72332 56076 70283 40746 70067 32289 62849 10638 60217 13377 58164 21499 57736 8995 57577 46251 55480 13403 55156 12184 50355 55920 46761 36110 44386 55759 42629 2024 41870 5693 41086 41588 36579 5690 31294 5691 30816 5689 30511 5692 26466 5688 26293 26952 21007 45700 14925 45983 12194 4030 6019 29463 24930 2672 Readability of items; "How difficult is each item to read?" ----------------------------------------------------------- 91.0 45026 87.0 45700 85.0 45983 85.0 26952 85.0 8995 84.0 2024 83.0 29463 82.0 40238 81.0 12184 81.0 32289 81.0 4030 80.0 46451 80.0 13367 80.0 5688 80.0 5693 80.0 55759 79.0 5690 79.0 5689 79.0 5691 79.0 5692 79.0 56076 79.0 13403 78.0 46251 78.0 42009 77.0 21499 77.0 11535 76.0 6931 76.0 41588 76.0 16327 75.0 26030 75.0 4551 75.0 10638 75.0 39384 75.0 38127 74.0 39179 74.0 38869 74.0 36110 72.0 13945 72.0 55920 72.0 11013 71.0 10939 70.0 47644 66.0 40746 66.0 16445 66.0 37889 65.0 13377 63.0 41233 63.0 37947 24930 2672 Item summaries; "In a narrative form, how can each item be abstracted?" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 10638 The times devoted to different places are given that he may form an day amid the tombs and monuments of "the great city of the dead." Guide Appennines and Vesuvius, its castles, palaces, walled towns, fine cities, light-house (one sixty miles from Queenstown) came into view at 9:35 a.m. We passed it at 10:00 o''clock. station at Clapham (seven miles above London) looks like, I do not know, watching the streets all day long, collecting and carrying away all the A clock with sixty-nine faces shows the times of so many different places rose at break of day and took a long walk through the city of Calais, to figures, representing the following, principal cities of Europe: Paris, tour of Germany and returned in time to spent the great day of the month I spent 8 days in London, 17 in Paris and 6 in Rome; doing to one city 10939 French--Battle at Ligny--The day of Waterloo in Bruxelles--Visit to the first time a great idea of the magnificence of Paris; he should enter by at Lille--Beauvais--Return to Paris--Remarks on the French theatre-at Lille--Beauvais--Return to Paris--Remarks on the French theatre-who pass thro'' Lausanne, with the French and English Government adherents, I did not visit the churches and palaces in this city from not having time Reggio is a large walled city, but I had only time to visit the Cathedral like manner, on travelling from Rome to Florence, people generally prefer great resource in going to church, which serves to pass away the time that I shall return in a day or two to Rome, having seen nearly all that Naples In the time of the French occupation, nothing of this kind took place; but Russia having annihilated the French Army, and Napoleon returns to Paris. 11013 Letter IV.--A Day in Florence.--Bustle and Animation of the Place.--Sights Boats.--British Landing.--Battle-field.--Old Mission Church.--Arched Rock. Letter XL.--Paint on Brick Houses.--The New City of Lawrence.--Oak Grove. Letter XLIII.--Passage to Savannah.--Passengers in the Steamer.--Old Times for a considerable distance, passing several little blue lakes lying in valley watered by the river Inn, on the banks of wrhich stands the fine country town situated on a high bank of Rock River. told that the tree which grows up when the long-leaved pine is destroyed, At a little distance, near a forest, lies the burial-place of the black streets of the new town; the throng of well-dressed church-goers passing look at the place, but a genuine Scotch mist covering me with water soon "It looks like Albany," said my companion, and really the place bears some little grove for their holidays, as in their towns in the old country, and 11535 mountain sheep, which we saw looking at us from the rock above, had worn my feet like a beautiful map, and just opposite, Loch Long thrust its Here, beautiful winding walks led around little lakes, in mountains looked higher than in summer, and the old castles more grim mountain like a wall for several hundred feet--the hills around rising blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old The dark clouds which hung over the hills, gave us little time to It is a beautiful sight, to stand on the summit of the wall and look beautiful little village where we passed the night before, the road It was nearly dark when we came to the end of the plain and looked on mountain near, where we had a very fine view of the city and its great The mountains are covered with forests of dark pine, and many beautiful 12184 One Sunday morning Bee and Mrs. Jimmie and I were sitting at a little "I shall ask the duke," said Bee, clearing her throat in a pleased way. "Yes, she offered it," said Bee, sitting on a little table and tucking One boat contained Bee, Mrs. Jimmie, and two Princeton men, and the "Mr. Jimmie," he said, coming to the end of the boat with every Bee''s tone was so flattering that Jimmie forgot clothes and said: this time we were fashionable with Mrs. Jimmie and Bee, and part of the quite given up going there, but I know Bee. She has left Jimmie and me Bee and Mrs. Jimmie think we are a little low. "It will probably please Bee and Mrs. Jimmie," I said, doubtfully, "and It was a little hard on Bee, and even on Mrs. Jimmie, to looked dubious, but Bee and Mrs. Jimmie patted me on the back and said I 13367 from home, when they had not seen men for a very long time, Dalua indeed many other towns, seas, places, mountains, rivers, and I looked to windward and saw the sea tumbling, and a great number of ordered and planted quay of the town, I heard, a long way off, a man A long way off a man was playing a little stringed instrument, and there the times when no such things were done in Europe, and yet men hung Up-river, great new works of I know not what kind stood like a It is a difficult thing to move a great mass of men through a desolate Certainly every man that goes to sea in a little boat of this kind Then for some little time I rested after all those hours; and the man all I can of men and things; for anything great and worthy is but an 13377 London--Arrival in France--Different appearance of Things-Large Bonnets--Custom House and Passports--Of Travelling in France--French Of the Approach to Paris--General Appearance of that City--Its the Number of English in Paris--Column in the Place Vendôme--Gobelin vast and gloomy City--Simile of Dr. Johnson''s--Few Country Houses on _English miles_, and may generally be considered as a flat country, appearance of the villages in general on this road is but little are in general kept in good repair, and near Paris and some other great vast extent of the city, its environs do not present an appearance of perhaps unequalled in any city, for the great number of royal and public some years ago being much amused by an anecdote, related by the late Dr. Moore, in his "View of the State of Society and Manners in France, and a great extent of country terminated by distant mountains. differed little in appearance from an English watering place. 13403 great horse--Attempts to establish academies in England--Why travellers traveller of Stuart times was the young gentleman who was sent to France for the first time in an English book for travellers: "The Grand Tour of "travelled through Italy Five times, as Tutor to several of the English their governor, from their foreign travels into France and Italy. Footnote 91: _The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby_, 1547-1564, ed. Footnote 91: _The Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby_, 1547-1564, ed. Footnote 100: Sir Thomas Overbury, _An Affectate Traveller_, in Footnote 111: _Travels and Life of Sir Thomas Hoby, Written by Himself_, Footnote 128: _Life and Travels of Thomas Hoby, Written by Himself_, p. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 180: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, vol. Footnote 312: "That young men travel under some tutor, or grave servant, 13945 evils in England and this great evil of slavery in the United States is said, ''Thy brother shall rise again.'' There was a time when our great which the great American nation now presents to the Christian world? said in defence of slavery, as far as I know, in the United States. We have a little talk about the feudal times, and the old past days; "I should think," said Mr. S., "if it was in old times, that there had how the country might have looked in the old picturesque times, when the letter to the ladies of England, on the defects in the old country. "Ah," said the old man, "that was just like Sir Walter; he always had an This, I know, must look, to persons in old countries, like a hard and Pleasant kind of times those old days It seems to me that the great men of the old world 16327 meet the wants of the place and time, instead of copying New York heart, showed the aversion that the white man soon learns to feel for and live a new life in that of their children, instead of wasting time a large one in the present day, who love the new wine, but do not feel always; they saw other things in this great, rich, suffering world. be seen in any show place; he lives in the hearts of the people, and of life, and give the promise of some real achievement in Art. Of the fragments of the great time, I have now seen nearly all that To these, the heart and hope of my country, a happy new year! to let that beauty breathe its life into the soul; no time to follow At the same time, however, the Pope was seen to act with great 16445 Prefatory introduction to a work like this, can hope little better usage speaking only of the little places we passed through in coming along. terminating with a beautiful view of the surrounding country, like spots thousand comical things in the same way, I will relate one:--Mr. Piozzi''s valet was dressing my hair at Paris one morning, while some man England, friend, said I, do you like it?"--"Mais non, madame, pas so many times reason to expect; and I do believe that Venice, like other I expressed to the French lady my admiration of St. Mark''s Place. a country, till I left trusting to books, and looked a little about me. If any thing in England seem to excite their wonder and ill-placed This reflection felt like one naturally suggested to me by the place; pleasures, which the inhabitants of another place think _they_ would use 2024 He said that a simple thing like a bottle of brandy in your bag might like to come, explaining, by means of her guide-books and histories, Seafaring people talk like this, because they are silly, and do not know the land of the stranger, to come across a little homely English row like "That''s all right, old man; that''s the sort of thing we need. "It''s no good, old man," he says, with a sickly smile, so full of pathos proper time for a man to come to the carriage-window and clamour to see German shoemaker with this book and have talked the man''s head off. After breakfast we got a time-table, and looked out for a train to determined-looking man, I felt satisfied, and wished him "Good-night," That''s just what a German express train would like to "This is the train for us, old man," he says. 21499 most indolent people in the world--not lazy like Russians or Irish, but You do not hear a good word said for the Greek by any race in Europe. powers of imperial Russia before the great war could not open a way. control--British men-of-war, French black troops, Greek governors, and in Bulgaria, in Bohemia, in France and England, and in the New World helped to save France in the war, and these Russians were used by Street, point to the future of some great new State. "It looks rather like the East of Xerxes," said the old man. his appeal to Germany in the "Evening News" to save Europe by fighting great at one time that it did not appear likely that the old Italy It has been open for England to say this to Germany, France, Serbia, France wishes to run this new Europe which has come into being, on the 24930 26030 France is the land _par excellence_ for automobile touring, not only One sees the thing every day on any of the great highroads in France France is the land _par excellence_ for the tourist, whether by road After France the "good roads" of Britain come next, though in some traffic on the country roads of France does not seem to be in any way The question of the speed of the automobile on the roads, in France In the old coaching days road speeds fell far behind what they are By far the best hotel-guides for France, Belgium, and Holland, the has an excellent hotel, allied to the Touring Club de France (Hôtel road which runs through the Basque country and through St. Jean-de-Luz, a delightful little seaside town which has long been a Before taking an automobile upon the road in France all drivers must 2672 26952 "That dear little monkey," answered Nettie, pointing to Froll, now close away, and when Mrs. Hyde and Eric returned, Allan and Nettie were both Eric was a thoughtful, reliable boy, and old enough, his father said, to "Thank you," said Eric again, with a joyous smile; for Mr. Lacelle''s room "I wish you had," said Eric, "in time to have gone down into the water." "Eric," said Johnny, when Dr. Ward had gone, "I must show you the American "Uncle John," said Eric, the next morning, "do you think of going through "No, Johnny," said Eric. "Do be still, Johnny," said Eric, "it''s no time for jokes. window of the boy''s room, the landlord, Eric, Johnny, and Mr. Van "This has been a day of adventures," said Eric, as he and Johnny were "Be good and kind to my boy, as you have always been, Eric," he said, 29463 BROWN, JONES, and ROBINSON. Brown, Jones, and Robinson starting on their After a rough passage, Brown, Jones, and Robinson are here seen landed Robinson and Jones (alarmed by expression of Brown''s countenance). "Speise-Saal" hotel, Cologne-Enter Brown, Jones, and Robinson, While Brown, Jones, and Robinson supped, a party of philosophers carry Robinson, after the departure of Jones and Brown, seated himself before Brown, Jones, and Robinson have arrived at ----, the capital of ----, a paper having announced their arrival as Count Robinson, Sir Brown, and At first Jones was incredulous; but presently Brown, his hair standing How Brown and Jones went in a third class carriage (Robinson would not; Having taken their places on the outside of the diligence, Brown, Jones, Jones and Robinson appear, to the surprise of the military, and relief --"I stood in Venice," etc.; Jones and Brown, having Jones to Brown-"What do you say?" 32289 by stone walls, the white, winding roads, and little villages nestling A red-faced young man in tight new clothes--like neat little stations along the way--like gingerbread houses--made for us wore the long black robes and odd little skull-caps, that fit so like a an old, worn face, was crouching in a little weary heap by the door that lake standing on end at the feet of the lady, and a little pink house, joined to it--like an old man with a gay young wife--is the beautiful room were painted half-open doors and windows with pretty girls peeping "Speak low, if you please," said our little old woman; "the queen is in like steps, follow again the narrow path, and reach at last the hotel, pass, where a knot of people gathers about a round little old woman. Suddenly--for we have turned away our faces--the little old woman''s hand 36110 English Guard--"The Grand Old Man"--Caution to Tourists--Great Cities by Night--The Seven Dials--Derby Day--The Tally-Ho--Old Age--City Lamps--Houses and People--The Island of Marken--An old-time picture, wend your way to the banks of the River Dee, where you Great Entrance Hall, sixty two feet long and forty wide, is rich in dark Many beautiful old shade trees surround the castle, and the restful Let us enter its hospitable doors and enjoy its old-time atmosphere and Guard--"The Grand Old Man"--Caution to Tourists--Great Cities by to a good position in the crowd, just in time to behold the "Grand Old spirits: young and old, men, women and children all seem merry and Another famous and beautiful edifice is the Madeleine, or church of St. Mary Magdalene, which stands in an open space not far from the Place de deliver goods in our cities from the streets to the houses. thousand inhabitants, with beautiful streets, stately houses surrounded 37889 The house was surrounded by a high stone wall, a large gate idea of an ancient Greek city, being situated in a commanding position the ruined city stands where stood Corinth of old, but it has fallen dwellings; and high above the ruined city, now as in the days when the longed for the good old days when, at the head of his hanged companions, travel in Greece; the country is mountainous, and the road or narrow eminence, Athens itself, like the other cities in Greece, presenting a second day in Athens Mr. Hill was at the door of my hotel to attend us. The Greeks went away from the coffee-house, the adjacent country; and the city contained long ranges of houses and a sensation in the ancient city of the Danai; but man little knows for travelling friend, with a young soldier who spoke a little French, came 37947 "savage from the remotest time." "All the way," says an old traveller, way of getting over the ground than posting in Russia with a man of high an hour saw at a great distance the venerable city of Chioff, the North, the sacred and holy city of the Russians; and, long before all our principal men, from the time of Washington to the present day; the cross; and in a city like Chioff, where every turn presents some new We wandered a long time in this extraordinary burial-place, everywhere an old and favourite stopping-place with the Russian seigneurs when they buildings of the great Russian princes, seigneurs, and merchants, among On the last day of my stay in Moscow a great crowd drew me to the door long-sleeping beauties, when the great doors at one end were thrown the great scenes of which this little city had in his own day been the 38127 group whose chief figure is that of a pretty little lady, blithe as a things I brought home moved the laughter of my little Roman public. like a beautiful figure set to point out a certain way, and people at We sit just within our room, the little writing-table half within, labor of sight-seeing in Florence left little time for writing up on the The little Greek lady soon became the Principe, and a little conversation caused the time to pass very shun these, the small, pointed stones present difficulty as great. At the present day, this citadel would be of little A visit to either place refreshes after the long, hot day. the little church now made itself heard, and, looking in, we saw the small pictures by the same artist appeared quite unworthy of his great Our two days allowed us little time for the churches of Munich. 38869 the capital of the new German Empire), bore us over the sea like a In such good company, we have passed over the great and wide sea, and divisions of the city, the Old Town and the New Town, stand facing people in England thought the Great Republic was gone, he had faith, who has lived many years in London, tells me that things may come Looking over this sea of heads, one sees some that bear great names. country, as in the days of the Flood people might have looked upon It is like the earth of old--"standing out of the water and in quaintest and queerest little old place that ever was seen--that looks city, and attracts a great number of English and American residents by may come, there will always be a great and powerful State in Eastern rising out of it a cloud like a man''s hand; the sea "whose shores are 39179 speak French, and look like little old men and women, and the horses, your idle hours look you in the face as they pass, to know whether, in passed, a young man of uncommon personal beauty jumped out and entered the other hand, are the finest-looking body of young men I ever saw. copy of a Bond-street dandy, and looks as little like a Frenchman as man in Europe, too; though, like most modest _looking_ men, his here comes a fine-looking man, though of a different order of indolent-looking English girl, with large sleepy eyes, was dressed as scholar-like, fine-looking old man, writing at a window in the story Adriatic--an immense plain looking like the sea as far as the eye can living like the settlers in a new country, half in the open air. It looks little like "a woman''s like a queen, certainly one of the most beautiful women I ever looked 39384 Mendelssohn completed the music to Shakspeare''s great play. from their Latin to-day, that they might hear Felix play, I think I have just received your welcome letter, written on Ascension Day. I cannot help myself, but must still write to you from this place. Some days after my last letter from Weimar, I wished, as I told shall find letters from you the day after to-morrow, and possibly looked at me; while I thought it may one day actually come to pass a long time, and take delight in my work, and feel such an begin my work, and play, and sing, and compose till near noon. day glides away till sunset: but I should like in the evening to time, for some days past, we yesterday had fine weather. two months the work shall be completed, for every day I feel more If I compose really good music, which in these days is 40238 On this new world of waters we are to launch the boat, the man, and his Launching our boats unobserved on the river, we soon left Liege in the came to a large Schloss, where we observed on the river a boat evidently long cart and let the boat lie on these, which will bear it like springs a pleasant rivalry set up, for it is "man and boat" _versus_ the river water than my canoe--and every time it grounded there came a loud and river on this dark night to carry up a boat. see another English boat come in, so little and so lonely, but still so when we had got a little way in I had to stop the boat, and this too by boating men in that quarter never came here by the river, and the Rob in some fast rivers, say, at least, a hundred times in a day''s work, and 4030 land, I saw a white butterfly hovering over the waves, and looking as about ten feet square, and it looked to me like a great rustic flower I should like some time to read you a description of this lovely place, other plants,--young trees and flowers,--to the beautiful little porch, Ullswater, of looking with your living eyes on Derwent Water, built seven hundred years ago; and the ruins that are now standing look grow green and more beautiful and perfect as time passes on. There is a fine old park around these lovely ruins; and, not far off, a well knew how to choose beautiful places to live in. beautiful Ara Force, one of the most lovely falls I have seen in long days passed away, and the lady waited in vain for her true knight. far more beautiful than Laura Bridgman''s; her head good, but not so The school is a fine looking place, surrounded 40746 Passing a little public house, we observed the following houses, in most of the French towns and villages we have yet seen, are mules, and observed many beautiful trees of mountain ash, with their seen such a beautiful thing in my own country? The country shortly changed to a scene of wonderful richness and beauty, met, with their large black eyes, and peculiar style of beauty, told us water-mill at work in the valley below us appeared like a baby-house, places, as both French and Italian are equally used in this country), we difference of this little country house from those to which we had been country, which we thought extremely pleasant, tasting like the best The country beyond this place began to improve in picturesque beauty; English traveller, like myself, to observe the manners here of very strange effect to an English eye; but among the French people there 41233 The old walls of Chester are the great attraction of the city; in fact, The views were beautiful--high hills, with little green-shored lakes set ornamental style as to look quite like an English hall or country-seat. vista of beauty, a great Gothic aisle still standing, fifty feet long, feet long, with great columns from floor to ceiling, and a light gallery cheerless, barn-like old room, thirty-five feet long and twenty-five the room; upon a dais at its head, beneath the great bow window, and The new and large hotels, however, are a great improvement on the old buildings looking, for all the world, like a good old-fashioned little town near the river, an old watch-tower, a road winding off amid bright-looking little villages that we pass, for the old castle, pass great walls of crag, three or four thousand feet high, now looked great mountains, and makes it look like a huge sheet of light 41588 France as she really is; not like Germany, a land of large cities, but most popular and most frequented motor road in France. Beyond the town we could see the stately towers of Fort St. André, in that early period a frontier fortress of France, so jealous of much per mile as France, but while the French roads are in danger of why the old French soldier longed to see Carcassonne, and why tourists We left early to get a start of the rush of motor cars for the French motor through the French provinces, to stop in the small towns and German motor car in a French encampment might have had unpleasant A little farther on we passed several motor cars filled with French It looks like an army road, the trees are planted with _pfennigs_ (three cents) from the motor cars passing over their roads. 42009 and vineyard left on the old mission sites was a way-signal to the new Obispo, Father Azagonais, a very old man, living in a hut, like the twigs, reaching half-way up to the eaves and looking like huge lace is beautiful and fine, and of patterns like the old church laces. Coming from the study of the records of the old mission times, with Sitting in the little corner room, looking out through the open door of the finest houses face away from the water, looking straight into "I suppose this old wall was here in Burns''s time," I said. The old ladies said that their mother had liked "Jean" on the whole, How well I came to know the look of that little ragged old copy of the "Did you ever see hand like mine?" she said one day, spreading her As they come towards you they look like a great 45026 "Let Mary Lee do it," said Nan, putting her arm around her little "Then you twinnies would better stay at home with Mary Lee," said Nan. "I know what I shall do," said Mary Lee, as soon as the door closed "I''ll bet that scamp Jack has it," declared Mary Lee. Nan opened the door leading to the next room and there beheld the two "Jack gets so carried away by things of the moment," said Nan, always "I was thinking," said Nan when she returned, a little later, "that "Let''s go and watch for Aunt Helen," said Mary Lee, as eager as Nan for place," said Miss Helen a few days after the girls had returned from "I know I shall when you are around, you dear old Nan," said Jack, "Then, Jack," said Miss Helen, "go tell Nan she has practiced long "Look, Nan," said Jack, "at that little girl over there. 4551 entered by a small man in a uniform that made him look something like an got up to look like human beings; a silk-hatted gentleman, stopping said the time had come to speak of cabbages and kings--because Germany Cannon does not look a thing in the world like Verdi, and probably run all the way round a fellow''s face and lap over at the back, like Knowing from experience that every other American who lands in Paris But I think I know, good and well, why a man might spend his whole old bearded man having the look on his face of a kindly but somewhat what we want to look at next.'' We still serve a good many people like rule these persons know a good deal about Europe and very little about English ship, if he likes the exclusability, and come back on a German 45700 [Illustration: _The Cleaner_ (_showing tourists round the church_). While all the French and English girls cried out "_C''est [Illustration: "NO PLACE LIKE HOME!" [Illustration: STUDY AT A QUIET FRENCH WATERING-PLACE DEAR CHARLIE,--You heard as I''d left good old England agen, I''ll [Illustration: AN OLD FASHIONED WATERING-PLACE] _Tourist_ (_to manager, who knows English_). [Illustration: ENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN [Illustration: _She._ "So, dear baron, you are just come down from the _Aunt Fanny._ "I do like these French watering-places. Speaks English like a Briton. There''s nothing like English if you want to Where they play low, you know--only to pass the time. _Tourist._ Can you speak English? _Tourist._ It is a very long time since I was in Florence. London, put up in place of the old Cathedral which nobody liked. [Illustration: AT A FRENCH HOTEL [Illustration: THE RETURN OF THE TOURIST] [Illustration: A VIEW ON THE FRENCH COAST] 45983 One day in the early spring, Alice Winter came home from school, Mrs. Winter came in while Alice was almost in despair and said, "This "Come, Alice," said Mrs. Winter, "we will go down to our state-room and The girls thought it very interesting, but Mrs. Winter said, "A Mrs. Winter and Alice did not like the carriage, as it is called in like going down underground so far, but Alice said to Nellie, "I think I Mr. Winter said, "Alice, you told that very well; but he was not such a After a good dinner and a rest, Mr. Winter said he thought, as his time Mrs. Winter then said, "Now, girls, we will visit those churches of Mr. Winter said, "Alice, what do you know about this?" Mrs. Winter said, "This is very beautiful, but I do like the solemnity Mrs. Winter said she would like to go home on the "Teutonic" very much, 46251 great paintings, reminds us of the supreme power of the city under the The little city of Assisi stands on a hill; a mediæval town of a in works of art, and in the embellishment of the buildings and palaces. hundred years were spent in the building of this great church, and inhabitants, when the city was a seat of learning, a great centre of art Ibañez, "The Cathedral," a work of genius, which has brought the city was a native of the city, and the only great painter that Granada still many churches and historic places to visit in the city, and I must After the Romans, the city was ruled by Christian princes up to the day The chief Roman monument in the town is the great arch of triumph, the Athens, as in modern cities to-day, a number of persons who lived upon 46451 water in your room, and a table as good as the best in New York. time, as a young man who keeps a bottle in his room should be. day for new worlds to sell goods to, knowing perfectly well that when time was the starting point for all the running horses), and that Sol. was holding him back for some great master-stroke of turf business. [Sidenote: AN ENGLISH IDEA OF A GOOD TIME.] A great many years ago, some time since the flood, a Swiss woman named The Tower is a good thing for a world to see, so that it can know what people quiet-going English, who have lived in the same place where their association with this delightful man as good as half my living all my [Illustration: THE YOUNG MAN WANTED TIBBITTS TO MAKE PLAIN THE POINT.] Man who Knows Everything; that is, he said he rather liked him. 47644 on great stone buildings like St. Paul''s, it must be admitted by all different streets in this city bearing the name of New, 151 Church, 129 I heard from ministers of the Church of England that year, preached window the great crowds of people on the streets of Edinburgh on And truly the Scotch people are great church-goers. and is said to be the one great church of England which retains its churches throughout the English-speaking world, owes no little to the Church in London at the present time, did not intone the prayers which Church of England has some great preachers, as it always has had, the and a great number of gifted clergymen of the Church of England. By the way, the cathedrals and other great churches of Holland erected some such church in ----, so that our good people who cannot visit the 55759 looking like all the rest, I came to the conclusion that the English if you are lucky, you arrive at 8 o''clock at a little old French town It is said that these little old half dead towns live off It is a little old town with a wall round it, and a hill close man what it meant, who said it is a place where all the rich people said "look there ahead, those old walls we are going under is the came up to the pretty little ruined city Albano, he said, "there, once felt like driving the good-natured old fool away, but as he was and looks like a man in every sense of the word. old times we looked upon a town. had, and the old man said he would have half of the asparagus cooked These great temples are situated so that it takes a man many days to 55920 lofty amphitheatre of finely wooded mountains, with the town standing which is out of the town, on the banks of the river; and Sir Humphry a small town, where we passed the night at a very good inn. on the river Save or Sau. The evening being fine, Sir Humphry went out walked on and met Sir Humphry at the end of the lake, George following accommodated with very good rooms, and Sir Humphry passed the night a fine view of the town, the valley and river, or the mountains. little town, we beheld on our left a fine and magnificent view of the On the right side of the road we passed by a small lake of no great _17th._ Sir Humphry went this morning to the river and fished for same road which I had passed over with Sir Humphry when we visited 56076 afterwards kept him at arm''s length till we got home, sent him to bed, incredible number turned Turks at the time that their ships of war first March 13 is the Turkish New Year''s Day, and is a great festival with in a fury, went home, got drunk, and then came out into the street and We got to Kalamata next day, meeting on the way numbers of Mainiotes Stackelberg, I went aboard our Greek ship to bed, I slept like a stone At last the wind changed, the captain set all hands to work, and we got The wind changed about several times, till presently it came down in a the aga''s man, and worked hard all day long. It was indeed far from pleasant; but as the day came on the wind went All day long Captain Beaufort was preparing, on a small island close to 5688 --The Mystery of "Ship Time"--The Denizens of the Deep--"Land Hoh" Going Home--A Demoralized Note-Book--A Boy''s Diary--Mere Mention of Old For months the great pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land was they were to scamper about the decks by day, filling the ship with shouts the city a good deal with a young Mr. Blucher, who was booked for the "Good morning, Sir. It is a fine day for pleasuring. "Well, sir, I don''t know--I think likely you''d fetch the captain of the France out of the guide-book, like old Badger in the for''rard cabin, was a good deal worried by the constantly changing "ship time." He was the ship day and night from Fayal to Gibraltar, and I thought I never The Moors held the place twelve hundred years ago, and a staunch old said they would look very pretty on a hand like mine. 5689 looked back to infancy as to a thing of some vague, ancient time, almost. suffered, here in Paris, but never mind--the time is coming when I shall I think we have lost but little time in Paris. uniform--a long-bodied, short-legged man, fiercely moustached, old, with a new toy, like any other restless child; a man who sees his people Ferguson said an American--a New Yorker--kept the place, and was carrying They also showed us a portrait of the Madonna which was painted by St. Luke, and it did not look half as old and smoky as some of the pictures Howsoever you look at the great cathedral, it is noble, it is beautiful! of a large man, though they all looked like dolls from the street. a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man''s prime She said a franc was a good thing to 5690 Italian church-paintings, even by the old masters, the Saviour and the For a day or two the place looked so like an overflowed Arkansas town, those holy ashes were stolen away, the ancient city would vanish like a Among a long list of churches, art galleries, and such things, visited by I like no half-way things. thing has occurred more times than I can mention, in Venice. damning heresy by the church; and we know that long after the world had long years, so they said, and it was for sale for thirty-five thousand churches, justice demands that if I know any thing good about either I because I had worked a long time on that joke, and took a good deal of In the great left-handed combat he appeared to be looking at Eternal City, and unless all men and books do lie, he painted every thing 5691 and went up a long street and stood in the broad court of the Forum of they were in the old times, and on the walls were pictures which looked most bustling and business-like way, was as strange a thing as one could little centuries flutter away, and what is left of these things? thing--the square-topped hill was the Acropolis, and the grand ruin that "Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars hill, and said, Ye men of board to-day, and the time has passed cheerfully away. make it one of the great cities of the Old World--built this noble came back and said the Emperor would receive us at noon the next day that Smyrna to-day wears her crown of life, and is a great city, with a upon a time, about fifteen hundred years ago, seven young men lived near 5692 faces with dark-colored or black veils, so that they look like mummies, things were in readiness--that we were to start to-day, with horses, pack time to think what a camel looks like, and now we have made it out. village of stone dry-goods boxes (they look like that,) where Noah''s tomb appeal to the stranger to know if the great world will not some day come these monstrous things came from, and it takes some little time to heart sits the great white city, like an island of pearls and opals that howling desert, so long will Damascus live to bless the sight of the Paul lay three days, blind, in the house of Judas, and during that time great that at one time--thirty miles from here--they had to let a sick Arabs, with their long guns, who were idling about the place, said they I said--who speaks of money at a time like this? 5693 to get water from, twenty times a day, when she was a girl, and bear it We took our last look at the city, clinging like a whitewashed places like Esdraelon, where the ground is level and people can gallop. the days of two hundred years ago are called "ancient" times grow dazed an impossible thing to go to sleep when you know that people are looking The next place the guide took us to in the holy church was an altar sacred place in the memories of men; since that time there has always stones that are crumbling away," the guide said, "the Saviour sat and Dead Sea, and there is no pleasant thing or living creature upon it or The porter said, "Oh, certainly; the old man''s got dead loads of We did every thing by mass-meeting, in the good old national way, 6931 travelled said that Lord and Lady Shaftesbury had visited in person New England-like that I began to feel myself quite at home. world said, it did no good to try to help; that they liked to be dirty I called the little things to come and stand handkerchiefs, and white aprons, looked like a wide flower bed. At a distance these glaciers, as I have said before, look like frozen He gave a look at the circle of mountains around, and said, "I love A good old woman came to see if we wanted any thing. "Ah," said Clara, "the last thing my little darling looked at was the are so high that the houses in the valley look like chips. seems like a place that has seen better days. stood the old church--something like that in Halle, a great Gothic mother thought the poor little thing a beauty. 8995 complete before Katy returned, bringing with her little Amy Ashe. condition, and Mrs. Ashe sent for her little girl to come home again. "There is Rose Red," cried Katy to Mrs. Ashe. But the train had come in a little behind time, and Mrs. Ashe was No time must be lost in showing Boston to Katy, Rose said. her old heart for you, Katy, and it''s the only good thing I ever knew She and Rose went early into town, for old Mrs. Bedding had made Katy stewardess, unnoticed by Katy, who was busy with Mrs. Ashe and Amy. The bell rang, and the great steam-vessel slowly backed into the stream. Katy looked at Amy''s pale little face and eager eyes with a real But there was little of this monotony to help Mrs. Ashe and Katy through "Oh, Katy, I am so glad you have come," cried poor Mrs. Ashe.