Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . t look like the surface ofa transparent pond, orsome delicately tessellatedmarble pavement in a Ro-man church.—tliis floorfairly startled some of thePrussians who liad nt^verbefore entered the hall,and they seemed to beuncomfortable lest thei
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . t look like the surface ofa transparent pond, orsome delicately tessellatedmarble pavement in a Ro-man church.—tliis floorfairly startled some of thePrussians who liad nt^verbefore entered the hall,and they seemed to beuncomfortable lest theirdainty boots should bewetted. One or two ofthem went sprawling, forwaxed parquets are diffi-cult to walk upon. Out-side, trumpets brayed, gayhorses pranced, and court-ly men bowed low asthe future Emperor leftthe Palace after havinglistened to compliments from the hun-dreds of courtiers and foreign di|)lo-mats present. In the evening, at tliedinner at the Prefecture, the Grand Dukeof Baden made a speech, in which healluded to the Imperial Crown, which,as Frederick William IV. had said,should only be worn on the field ofbattle. The psychological moment had at menee ? But it had already commenced,and the Prussians had begun theirsteady task of reducing the outworks ofthe capital. The Germans, fiom the first,expected an increase of losses on their. THE FRENCH TROOPS ABANDONINU THEPLATEAU AT AVRON. lenced y a day or twoafter the firstcannon werelired from theadvancedPrussian bat-teries, a thousand additional hospitall)eds were ordered in Versailles. Thesilence of Forts Rosny, Noisy, Ro-mainville, and Aubervilliers, after thereduction of Mont Avron, was muchconnnentod on, and the Prussians weremystified l)y it. The Germans did notreject as entirely ridiculous the state-ment that the forts might be mined, andit might be a very costly experiment to 3G0 EUROPE m STORM AND CALM. assault and occupy them. By and bythe batteries which the Saxons had beenbuilding on the crests of Raincy
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