The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-12-01
PRE- STON 3 Ell vi N,
FINE ART FURNITURE
No. | 8 Governor Street.
like three monks moving through the.

like three monks moving through the.
mist.
Later. even the chairs were impracti
cable. Without warning Miss c. fai DTS
See the pictured Rain coming down;
victim lying on the yellow rocks; per
| spring men administering restoratives
affectionate frie nds hipdering them; no
one else on earth on Mt. Vssuvius but
ourselves; sulphur fumes ch king Us
We got up some how to the crater and
heard a surgiDg as Of many waters. heard
rocks falling aud rolling about MS.
which we could not see for the smoke;
cougheS and went down again like the
| King Of FfaLce AMI his forty thousand
men. The worst CT all vas running
down that slipping. sliciug. treach.
erous slope Of slud ard ashes. into and
out OF the dense fogs For n moment
once. the clouds lifted. and we could see
all the lovliness ct the sea. LIS islands lIn-
cludiog Monte CtrcellO and POM and
the towns Of Sorrento ana C1stellam-
mare aud Resina and MANY more. Then
the return TO Tore; the raging OF out.
rageous bi Is. the me anoboly drive baC k
through the night, relieved by melau-
choly Dire ans IN occssOpal melancholy
maps. How soft the bs DIS scented " hen
we reached them at last. and how late
we slept next morning Our ascent TO
Vesuyius had not been quite a succers
still when we reach home we eau say
I'VE have done it,"
May 20 We are leaving Ia bclls
florence. beavy-hearied with sorrow
at the parting. The gray bubble Of the
dome of the Duome. and the attendant
spire of GIotto's Tower sink from sight
beyond the poppy red fields, and the
greenness of the young vines. We
pass gray old sigma, with its Inevitable
association, for me, with certain iasci-
mating novel.
And then, Pistoj,'s towns and
churches. and. further on, the msgnifi-
cent mountain views begin. The slopes
rise very abruptly from the shadowy
valleys in their depths the many
streams are clear aud swift. aud .his
Italian wealth of flowers and green.
cry is remarkable; there is SO great
variety. not merely an abundance Of
a few species.
through this perfect country we
went on to Bologna, and stayed the
night.
Drove TO San Ste.ano's seven old
churches l300-ll00) and TO the groun o.
leaning towers. These arc only OF
brick. and have not beauty like that of
Pisa. but they are the higaest ever con-
structed. At the Academia we saw
the st. Cecilia Of Raphael. It was dis
appointing, | thought. after the Parish
an. Roman and Florentine examples OF
his art. Francia is well represented In
his stages of development. and Guido
REM abounds. There is also fine Pc
rugino.
At four we reached Venice. Across
the broad lagoOns we first saw the
bride of the sea in her veil of haze
and distance aud ocean mists.
Radiant and fair, and about her all
the mystery Of the water.
We leave the railway carriage at
length. and get out of the station. and
are at the water side ready to embark.
This is the Grand Canal then, and this is
real gondola l have not yet seen any,
thing 10 Italy which disappointed me.
Blu, nothing before has been entirely rs
had dreamed, nothing has filled my
ewes with tears of sheer delight moth
Jog is so perfect as Venice. The canals,
the moulderiug palaces. bathing their
thresholds in the sea, with window
bars rusted half away. and the rot
Ting pali retaining faint topcnes OF
heraldri1' coior, the black silent gon
dolas. the low brid yes, and the voice OF
the Pope calling out which side he
vii pass at the iurns. the b Of intensely
blue sky between high walls OF hou-es;
above all. the matcnless richness auo
meilowness and delicacy of coiouriug
which is every where. Who wobdels
that artists 20 mad over Venice
think d. should be glad TO lose what
is called reason TO live in the perpetual
contemplation of this goddess of b auty.
From my window at the hotel can
look across the canal to the white
domed Salute.
When ! heard the name. some lines OF
Mrs. Robinson S. read once, long ago,
ia Virginia, come to me
"Down the narrow ;qlie we went.
Until a sudden wnltone made us hold our
breath
Ant. e pure salute towers IN moonlit bright
ness etc,
1t Is positively so still here that | lean
not sleep. Fancy getting quite a"aS
from all the sounds that we call CITY
noises while IN a city. Early rose and
went down the little Gale across the
bridge by the Church Of 5. Noise and
on TO toe Piazza OF S,u Marco.
At last. haze seen the ideal cathe-
drai. Ocvieto sinks; Florence pales;
Pisa and Slena are nov here. fhis L.
magil. the blended low domeS mskr
me think OF "a bowl OF soap bubbles
trembling In Thousand clear colors
and opallne tinis. 1t might not be beau
liiui elsewhere; but here the walls OF
the Doge's palace looks ike mother-Cf
pearl, and the winged lou guards is
wheip with proyea fallhfulness. | am
living dream. perhaps.
Paris. June 2S.-Pdrs seems To be
full Of Americans. tarisians are at "a |
premium here.
IL is hal lime for everything, unless
one has the exposition fever We had
"A It, and fed to Eogland,
The channel WAS smooth as a duck
pond. had not realized the influence
of having only foreign tongue spokt n
about me until ! slipped Ashore at
Dover and heard the Queens English.
al as The articls was. IL was like hear
ing good news. II. L. Z.