Smyrna times., 1870-10-12
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BY REV. t. DE WITT TALMAGE.

There have been men with power to absorb
city. 1t matters not which way you walk in
Edinburg, you find Walter Scott, aud see the
impaired hair combed down straight on the |
great dome Of his forehead. You are shown !
Walter ScottS cane, and Walter SCOTS jack
knife, and Walter Scott's white hat, and Wal
ter SCOTS residence. After two hundred years, |
Peter Paul Rubens carries Antwerp i'll his |
vest-pOcket. The citizens adore him. You
are taken to see Rubens house, and to 10 X ut
| Rubens statue, and to study Rubens pictures
and at the mention of his name, the f,ce OF
duest Belgian is Illuminated. The sceptre
that sways Antwerp to-day is painters pen
Gil.
Coming to Paris, you find a more powerful
memory presiding over every thing 1t Is not
u name that you see, but simply an initial in
s,rbed on pillar and wall and arch and chapel.
You go into the Hotel de Vile-a place where
architecture aud painting and sculpture have
done their best-statues and futed columns
and ceilings supported by elaborate caryatdes,
and stairs SO graceful they do not climb, but
alight, and galleries not 50 much set fast
, seemIngly on the wlng-gOid twisted aud carv
ed and chased into all witcheries of beauty
and after y)u have walked from rich apart
ments to the richest, you look upon platform
on which there l. an empty chair, In the up
hOlstery of which is embroidered the initial,
On"
P You 20 into the Pantheon that holds its
> crowned head higher than all other structures
in Paris-a building bewildered with attrac-
tiOns, whether you look down to its exquisite
mosaic floor or aside to its carved Oaken chap
" els, or through a white cloud of sculptured
saints and apostles into the trescued dome,
o bright with the wings of angles flying in the
!. midst of heaven; and as your eye slips from
the dizzy height, aud comes falling down from
balustrade to capital, you see enclrcled by d
:, wreath the initial, n. !"
F." Louis the Fifteenth, who laid the corner
stone Of this building, would not have liked
that letter put there. Charles, who went into
raptures with the Church, would have object
ed to such al inscription. Marat, with all hi
hardness, would have opposed the marking o
a religious structure with any human nam'
but his own. Yet 80 it is No L. Tor Loui
3D. no c. for Charles no NJ. for Marat but OF
IN right aud left, and where least you might ex
oD pect it, the inevitable n n !
70. You go into one of the rooms OF the Louvre
nd and you are shown NapOeOn's sa Idle anu Ma
of poleon' watch-the hands at seven minute
past three, the moment he died-and hi
= last gray cOat-the summer insects hIyln
IA IA eaten in it two or three holes, for there
80 nothing that moth may not cOrrupt-aDd knli
and cup, and chess board ON which he playe
my out his games Of war in miniature. You loo
up to see the name of the room. Right owe
a. the door any man who knows his letters ma
discover it" N"
Ii you want your stay in Paris to be china
teric, leave till the last your visit to the Ton
of Napoleon. As you go into the gaze, an o
man who was with the great Frenchman
ma. Saint Helena will sell you a poor picture
something that no photographers can cate
hes Ii is a cathedral three hundred and twent
rds three feet high, having cost two million dOal
dedicated to one dead man. Under its 6u
nished dome is a concentration OF wonder
CRY Not his ashes resting there, but the embalm
and undecayed body OF Napoleon, III militia
suit in a red sarcOphsgus of hnlander quar-
ite, polished to the last perfection by skill
machinery, and resting on a block OF gre
granite Surrounded by twelve funeral-lam
Of bronze, aud twelve marble statues OF gre
size-one with wreath, as if to crown q
other with pen, as If to make record Tor
the ages; another with key, as if to open the
the Iestal gate for departed spirit another vi
trumpet to clear the way Tor the coming OF
e, TO kiDg-the pavement enamelled into crown
opu- laures, from which radiates on all sides
ing star There are glded gates, and speak,
'eiPt cenotaphs, and radiant canopy, aud eabor
''a'n basso-rellevos, and embossed pillars, and
Persian statues holding on cushions a scep
VIC and world and ceilings a blossom with fn
fresco by French and Italian masters-th
light dripping down the marble in blue 9
saffron and emerald and gold.
Ohlit is a dream of beautyl If the d
giant could wake up and look around, he mil
T. think he lay in the Moscow palace that he C
- eted, and the glisteuing whiteness around "
CIT the morning shining ON Russia SHOWS, or I
o. universal empire had come to him, and,
make his palace, Egypt had sent its porphS
and switzerland its MARBLE and Greece
sculpture and Rome its pictures, and Fra
its bronze, and that the reVerential spectatC
in all kinds of national costume, leaning O
v the balustrade to look, were the adoring {
lAM. iects of universal reign.
LEV A, Last we thought we had found build
27.Iy that had escaped the all-conquerlng ini