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 . whichvisit the metropolis would lend an addi-tional picturesqueness to the old andmysterious city, but they are mixed withsulphurous fumes, which are very un-healtliy, for many medicnl authoiitiesassert a constant lowering of the physi-cal ty
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 . whichvisit the metropolis would lend an addi-tional picturesqueness to the old andmysterious city, but they are mixed withsulphurous fumes, which are very un-healtliy, for many medicnl authoiitiesassert a constant lowering of the physi-cal type in London, and question whetherthe London population could be {wy-petiiatcd without a perpetual influx offresli blood from outside England and G20 EUROPE IX STORM AND CALM. from other countries. Tlie smoke andthe coal-dust, the sulphate of ammonia,produced in the atmosphere by the burn-ing of enormous quantities of coal, andthe siUphui-ous acid, are at first intenselydisagreeable to the stranger. If a windowbe left slightly open, books, writing-paper,fine linens, and silks are found soiledand smirched with the black particleswhich hover in to do their unpleasantwork; and a wristband, immaculate atnine oclock, must be changed at soon discovers why it is that theLondoner is perpet-ually washing hishands, and that toi-let-rooms are to be. ty ^^
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