The new spirit in drama & art . poor-law relief, and afforestation. Someone remarked, What you see in Buda-Pesth ismerely external. The city itself is a huge melon, gorgeouswithout, but hollow and watery within. Another calledit glittering and rank as a sunflower. I accepted theopinions without comment. I was far too interested at thetime gathering sensations from the procession of picturesqueold towns and villages along the Danube, which seemed tohave stepped out of the canvases of Max Suppantschitch,Oskar Grill, and Eduard Zetsche, to mind the significantsensation of a far-away city. Besides
The new spirit in drama & art . poor-law relief, and afforestation. Someone remarked, What you see in Buda-Pesth ismerely external. The city itself is a huge melon, gorgeouswithout, but hollow and watery within. Another calledit glittering and rank as a sunflower. I accepted theopinions without comment. I was far too interested at thetime gathering sensations from the procession of picturesqueold towns and villages along the Danube, which seemed tohave stepped out of the canvases of Max Suppantschitch,Oskar Grill, and Eduard Zetsche, to mind the significantsensation of a far-away city. Besides, it was impossible toturn my attention from the wonderful relays of lethargicpeasants, the rhythm of their slow life and movements, andthe glow of colour from their costumes, comf)lexions, andcommodities, as they boarded the boat and sat and frizzledin the burning sun. Then some of the quaint characteristicthings that unfolded gently on the long silver grey wing ofthe river—the detached villas with their poultry-runs, glued. <
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