, 1874-01-11

tEe EaIGene connected With the pitti Palace
| called the Bobill Gardens. They are f:;Ij -:
terraces, statues, fountains, avenues of Inuro
| and box, intc7snersed With grass-uloty. wifi
some fne ylstas opening to beautiful yleyH Of
| the City OF Florence, tile Valley Of the Aroo.
and the distant hills and mountains. The
laurel, pines, oaks, olives with many shrrba
aud vines. the laurustiius, and the English a:d
American ivy.
This garden. the Dorromean gardens on Lake
Maggolre,, and, indeed, all of the old Italian
ga,dens have seen. are very art;rciul There
are terraces, clipped trees, walks. and aycrue.
shut iii By box laurel surprises. lalyrl,,ths
statues, and grotesque fouDtaips.-a;l Yer;,
pretty: but with 10 breadth MI lack the dignity
19e I,et,,ia silapnGts: the neturalness, OF modern
to to low naturally; hut tss It ia SnIeaea aixaea
thown into jets and spray It is
never permitted to dash along eyer natural
rocks, OF ripple over pebbles, or glide along
natural bank Of grass !; but it is always tortured
out Of ITS natural course into artfcia! ponds, into
urns or basins; ocit is made to emerge from .ho
mouth Or nose OF eome grotesque animal, some
mermaid or nympb The like of which never visited
the earth or yea. Natural grass plots, inter-
spersed With tine. unclpt trees, are not toerat-
ed but the turf must be cnt into some geomct-
rlc slape, with border Of box aa high as Your
head aud as thick as castle-wall. There must
be Ell sorts OF Geometrical figures OF flowers
q Eflt1-
ing like sentnclE. Eyergreons are clipped into
tue shape Of peacocks and other birds; AMI
f1oWet-beds are made to resemble tho figures
OF carpet All is obviously artificial. It is
very pretty and pleasing--to children ;.but, in
the midst Of it al, one wishes for
the magnificent landscapes Of England,
where the constant effort is to CONCEAL
nrt. and only aid Nature to give ,1s her best In
the mida6 OF these artificial prettinesses now re-
freshing If one could be translated to Que of our
Ax@A-w 1r.,t ~ -
foliage, with our own uuoqualed trees mud
foliage. and shrubs and vines, where they hare
been encouraged to grow in all their Wild lux
utiance; combining the noblcst forms in os,r
elnls, aud oaks, and pines, and henlocAs, with
the most brilliant ard gorgeous coloFs in our
euGar-maple. our birch our sunlacE, our Linden;
and our wild y.t,cs. with all t4eir wealth of color
and OF foliage; but it must be added that We
have no old ruins, no Uncovered abbcya, no old
palaces and ruined cathelrals. Tie modern
ural sttle; nnd. in the magnificent boulevard
which the Florentines are completing around
their city, and in the drive to San lliueato, they
have adopted natural style, and tha result il
all that could lie desired.
THE PROTESTANT GRAVEYARD AT FLORENCE.
Saturday, Nov. -, ! visited the Protestant
graveyard here. The ground ia q erceu hill
within the old gray walls Of this ancient city,
the summit OF which is crowned with q white
marble column. with simple crpss on the lop,
sought first the grave OF Mfs. Browning.
Her monument is simple 6a,coplagus Of white
marble, standing on six marble columns, ana
bears no inscription except the letters - E. B. T.,
OBJ. 1861" Emblcms OF poetry and music-
harps aud lyreE-wcrc cut In relief in the marble.
no u,ore.-but the birds were singing very
sweetls on the branches above the green grass
of the gravc. Very near rest tho remains OF
Fanny Waugh Hunt, wife Of Holman Hunt, the
distinguished English artist. She died lete in
r,f1 1,cr fT, fi1c W. 1c
above her remains arc inscribed the words:
When thou passeth through the waters, will be
with thee and through the foods, they Ehl not over
throw thee. Ee 4,ot AFRAID.
Love ia stronger than death. Many waters cannot
aueuch love. neither can the Hoods drown 1t.
Here rcpose tie dust Of many known to fame
in America and in England. among them. be-
sides Mrs. Browning. are Walter Savage Ian
Of the Americans, Theodore Par
ker and Hiram Powers. How many from far
of foreign Iands, who have sought health and
prolonged life here in the mild climate of Italy,
repose beneath tho greou turf, still bright aud
gerllant ut this late autumnal dav England |
and Scotland, Norway and France, and ncally !
every country in Europe, as well as all our older |
American States. and several Of the younger |
ones. Lave their representatives here. The |
roses are to-day blooming lu1uriGntly and sweet !
u above them. Kind aud alectlouate hands !
carefully tend the 1o~erc WHICH blossom around |
Them, and they doubtless rest as quietly ID this
rar-oh ground as il they lay sldo by side
with their Own kindred, along the banks of
The Clyde md the Avon, or in the quiet valleys
Of New England. or within sound Of the break
ing waves OF Lake Michigan.
The ground is pleasantly planted with the yew.
the cedar, the fir the laurel and the ivy J; aud it
seemed to me that nowhere else in this land Of
flowers did tbs roses bloom quite so brightly,
and nowhere else have l heard the birds sing
quite go sveetly, as here.
It seemed to me that the monuments and
epitaphs we're in exceptionally good caste. There
ia little attempt 10 continue the brief distinct
ness Of this life by ostentatious memorials on
he contrary, they are simple, and the lnscrip- |
ions brief. 1t is q quiet graveyard, and its
,larzn consists in the lovely flowers and fine
rees and foliage; and the idea of death convey
ID by it seems that Of rest and re2ose and the
requent toxr from the Bible points the mourner
nd the stranger With tender hope and firm
aith to the Heaven where tho.good Father of
u will gather His children home, wherever
heir bodies may sleep, and however widely they
nay have been scattered or separated.
napoleon Honnparte and H1tnc. Dc
stnel.
From their first Introduction, Nine. Do Stael
ever liked Bonaparte. He inspired her with an
1stinctiye dread-ia feeling which WIS not
uioue in her Being m earnest lover of true