New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-01-29
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Foreign Correspondence of The Tribune. mo. KIN.
The Climate Of Italy,. Review First
Impre .--.Rome in its various
Aspects 1.-THE Pope 1.-THE Cemete-
ry of santo Spirits Ceremo-
niles at the Cbapels The women Of
Itsiy.-..The Festival of the MiIanese
saint--An Incident In the Chapel.
English Residents in the Seven-Hilled
City. Mrs. Trolloppe resident OF
Florence The Pope AS he communi
Gates with his People.....The Position
OF AffAirs..-.Lesser Potentates.... c
Inauguration of the New CounciI-the
Ceremonies thereto appertslning.--..
The American Flag IN Rome---.A Ball
---.A ,anditsReverse The Fun
eral aCouncilor.
- ROME Dec IL 1917.
This seventeenth day OF December | rise to see
the floods of sunlight blessing us as they have al
most every day since returned to Rome-two
months aud more with scarce three or four DAYS of
rainy weather. see the fresh roses and grapes
still each morning on my table, though both these
expect to give up at Christmas.
This autumn is " something like," az my country
men say at home. Like phat, they do not say. so
always supposed they meant like the ideal stand.
ard. Certainly this weather corresponds with
mine and begin TO believe the climate of Itak is
really what 1t has been represented shivering
here last Spring in an air no better than the cruel
east wind of Puritan Boston, thought all the
praises lavished on
italia, o Itallsi"
would turn Quito be pigments of the brain and that
even Byron, usually accurate beyond the concep-
ton OF Flooding pedants. had deceived US whenh
says you have the happiness in Italy to
"sse the sun set he n rise tomorrow"
and not according to view which exercises n
whitening influence on the enthusiasm of youth in
my native land be forced to regard each pleasant
day as 'ceather.breeder"
How delightful, too, is the contrast between this
time and the Spring in another respect Then
YVES here, like travellers in general expecting to be
driven away in short time. Like others | went
through the painful process of sight seeing, so un.
natural everywhere. so counter to the healtbful
methods aud true life OF the mind. You rise in the
morning knowing there are around you great
number Of objects worth knowing, which you may
never have chance 10 see again. You go every
day, IN all moods. under all circumstances you
feel probably in seeing them, the inadequscy of
your preparation for understanding or daily receiv.
ing them this consciousness would be most val.
ua1le IL you mad time to think aud study being the
natural way In which the mind is lured 20 cure its
defects-but you have time. you are always
wearied body and mind confused. di,sipated sad
The objects are OF commanding beauty or full of
suggestion but you have quiet to let tina, beauty
breathe its life into your soul-no time TO follow 40
these suggestions and plant for your proper har.
vest Many persons run about Rome for nine days
and then go away they might as well exPec; to
see it as TO appreciate the Venus by throwing
stone at it, stayed in Rome nine weeks and
came away unhappy as he who. having been taken
10 the visions OF night through some wondrous
realm, wakes unable TO recall anything but the
bues and outlines OF the pageant. the real knowl.
edge, the recreative power induced by familiar
love, the assimilation OF is soul aud subs.ance--all
the true value Of such q revelations wanting.
and he remains a poor Tantaus, hangrier even
when he most needed to be fed
No; Rome IL no. nine days wonder aud those
who try to make IL such lose the ideal Rome M
they had il, without gaining say notion OF the
real. For those who travel as thoy do every
thing else only because others dol do not speak
TO them; they are nothing Nobody counts in the
estimate Of the human race who has no character
For one, now really live in Rome. aud begin to
see andfeel the real Rome She reveals herself now