The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-12-01
THE PIANIST CITY IN EUROPE
Pal Mall Budget


 Turning round a corner one comes suddenly on pillar of a dingy. dull hue whose outline bulees unpleAsAn,ly. h London you would shrug your shoulders, muter hideous," and pass on. This IS the famous Nendome Column. As for the Column of July. it is so insignificant. so silly tho other word expresses il So we'll ;ha; second glance IS carefully avoided. The Hotel de Vile, vas, white building, IS past description, l; IS so plain and so repeilant Tn its naked. glAr- ing assertion. From about old Notie Dame they have removed every medieval outwork wh5eh had grown up around and rendered | hfelike 1: Ii now rises perpen- dioular and abrupt from the white surface of the square. nless you had been told that |; vas ,he Noire Dame of Victor Hugo you would not look st its exterief twice. vhe interior IS another matter. In external form No;re Dame cannot enter into competition with Canterbury The harraek-llSe Hotel des Invalides. the ,omb of Napoleon was ever tomb so nliserably lac king m all that should in- splre ieveren,iai feeling The marble ,lo n which ;he uin is sunk, the gilded ehape. and he yellow windows, could anything be more artificial and less ap- proptla;e They ar on the senses they ;Hsal; ;he ;efn flags which were carred by ;he veterans a, AusteIliil and which the w.rd ei aa,:.e. The isny Seine might as NC. ..ow n tunnel. being bndsed so much. There .emaIns but the Arc de lriomphe. the only piece ot architecture n d.. modem laI,s worth second look, Even ,his . spoiled by the same iuiolei able ar:lflelali;v The ridiculous seulp- ;are or the fac. the ngures blowing ;ru.npe,s. and above all the group on the s.mml,. which IS quite beyond the tongue of inan ;o describe. so utterly hldeoos IS r. destroy the noble lines of the arch. II any enc is 90 inprudeni as 10 approa h near |. R-ceding down the Avenue redsand d- somewhat asian, the chest nut trees presently csneeal the .tde seul;- . ,are ard then. by ;ising ones hat so that ;he summit. !, $ possible io admire the proportions ofaiS Arc.
 in ,he a.,eres gardens there $ spo, where distance ctliiera,es the sculpture ane he pro eetng bough of Ali elm con eeais :ee group on the top Here the arch appears noble. but ]. IS no longer iren | Us nos merely topy oi 4 kor1 an oUg.nal. which any ot ouf oSn architects eoald ereet for us n Hyde Park 1T ne most part the vaun,ed backwards are aG. planted aiih planes the .eas; pleasing of trees, whose leaves present an 4nkanlng green, til they drop dead brown. and the horse chest nuts n the Champs Flysees aie sci III s'sa.sa; Anes ,o repeat the geometry oi the streets. ih4s central Pars has no character. :, > without individuality and pTess.oniess. Suppose you sand |" The h@.lan ia 2 $ really very irregular : l, re- ql.Fes shaping. This nose pro'ects here. lei Us .ia:ien !; to the level of the cheek Ths mouth curves a, the corners. let us cu; II siraigh,. These eyebrows arch, nase them straight. This color IS too fiesh-like. bring white paint, Besides, he features move, they laugh, they as sgnc sadness this IS wrong. Here. di- v.de the r3use .es, ,ha, they may hence iar;i reinain n unvarying rgidlty. That IS ~ha; has been done to lAris |, is made s,ra.gh.. !, |, ldeali1ed siler Euclid T >:i-. wearjsome and feeble. Lastly !: has :sa eNg'e>slon. The dis,an es as observed Al :ne commencement. remain a.~aN he same. partly becau>e O. the obic geometry and the manoteny. party because oi he whitcncss and r,f'iy because oi :he pc ulias,y of the stmos- phefc. iof ~n. Ii. Of eourse. the .4,islan .s TO, respons bic. bai should has re- mcmoered 'n bedding. Advantage mts a, s-lely haze been taken of so elcar ar All in some manner. The color and tonc ihe sh; ard shade. the ehansc and "A v.ety Of London arc entirely wanting m short. ] Ar.s IS ;he planes, e.,y ln tafopc.