Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . the Gardens of the Iuilleries, riding ingay equipages, mounted on beautiful steeds, or on the promenade, was a novel experienceto our eyes, only to be excelled in splendor and ])ageantry by Paris at night, blazing in ajierfect sea of illumination from myriad gas-jets, dependent from curbs to facade, hanging overriver, garden, and grove like wizard fires, flooding palaces and stately edifices in licpiid light,and crowning and encircling l(ifi\ monuments of granite, niar
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . the Gardens of the Iuilleries, riding ingay equipages, mounted on beautiful steeds, or on the promenade, was a novel experienceto our eyes, only to be excelled in splendor and ])ageantry by Paris at night, blazing in ajierfect sea of illumination from myriad gas-jets, dependent from curbs to facade, hanging overriver, garden, and grove like wizard fires, flooding palaces and stately edifices in licpiid light,and crowning and encircling l(ifi\ monuments of granite, niarhle, and bronze with wreathsof translucent flame. Studded with dazzling lights and lamps as thickly as skies of Bethlehem plain with stars,gay, careless, giddy Paris at night on mirtli, fashion, and revelry bent, yet ga\e us a sweetand peaieful and restful thought of the great city of our (Jotl in which it is written, Thereshall be no night. Among other places of historic and national interest we visited the Tuilleries and Louvre,which aflford to the beholder the finest architectural view on earth. The palaces and build-. THi .KINF. ings inclose the Place du Carrousal, in whose grounds is located the celebrated .^rc deTrium])he du Carrousal, a monument erected b\- the First Na]5oleon, commemorative of thecelebrated battle of the First Empire. The renowned Cathedral of Notre Dame next claimed our attention, which, though sooften rudely attacked and injured by armies in change of djnasty, and so often sacked, rifled,and disfigured by the mobs of many a revolution,—so often the scene of royal triumph andcoronation and kingly humiliation and dethronement,—still stands forth grand, inspiring, andbeautiful, the peer of all the Cothic monuments of France, if not of the world. Thence we took our way to the Hotel des Invalides, whose l)uildings and grounds oc-cupy sixteen charming acres, and which is the noble asylum for the disabled and invalidveterans of the I-rench army. Here dir
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