. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. s before Alexander III, and the insolentItalian looked down on the Imperial throne of Ger-many ! In the street scenes he was greatly interested, in theever changing crowd, besieged by beggars and streetvendors of every description, in the festivals and pro-cessions of the Catholic Church, and in the happy-go-lucky Venetians of the lower orders, eating melons andsweetmeats or sunning themselves on the broad marblestairs, with the Austrian flag waving merrily over
. Life of Adolph Spaeth, , ... told in his own reminiscences, his letters and the recollections of his family and friends. s before Alexander III, and the insolentItalian looked down on the Imperial throne of Ger-many ! In the street scenes he was greatly interested, in theever changing crowd, besieged by beggars and streetvendors of every description, in the festivals and pro-cessions of the Catholic Church, and in the happy-go-lucky Venetians of the lower orders, eating melons andsweetmeats or sunning themselves on the broad marblestairs, with the Austrian flag waving merrily over them! An excursion to Isola san Lazaro, an Armeniancloister, was the most interesting event of its kind inVenice. The cloister was surrounded by lovely gardensand afforded a fine view of the city. A majestic, black-bearded old brother showed the gentlemen over thewhole building, while the ladies of the party were al-lowed to entertain themselves in the garden. The cor-ridors reminded Adolph of his beloved Blaubeuren, ex-unusual mastery over rhythm and rhyme.—(Meyers Konversations-Lexikon.) -r M^l llll Ira L^H^f^Hr J^aHb BJi!. I SOLA SAN LAZARO 49 cept that they enclosed a court laid out in beautifulflower beds, whereas our enterprising horticulturistswould have covered this space with radishes, beets andother useful kitchen truck. The chapel was not par-ticularly interesting, but in the upper corridors hungpaintings of Armenian abbots and priors, fine headsamong them, mostly of a decidedly oriental type, andhere an aged brother with a long white beard passedthem, who, they were told, was 106 years old! Thelibrary contained many valuable Manuscripts. Codicesin every language stood up in the high glass cases likemen in armor; and, most astonishing of all, there layan Egyptian mummy, a heathen priest more than 3,000years old! No wonder that the dreamy boy indulgesin a long, paragraph of speculation as to what wouldhappen if the heathen priest should suddenly open hiseyes on the
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