. Six and one abroad. hat lies upon one of the toes of Europe like a nail. Shivering in the cold wind, we stood on the shore a fewmoments and tried to reconcile the steam of a passing trainwith the marble of the past; and then drove for four milesalong a well-paved road to the ancient city. Every knoll andvale on the route, every Greek-lettered house and passing na-tive was the subject of interest to us because of its relation tothe great race that made illustrious history there. Even thedrivers of our carriages might have been descendants of menwho spoke with the tongues of angels. We did not
. Six and one abroad. hat lies upon one of the toes of Europe like a nail. Shivering in the cold wind, we stood on the shore a fewmoments and tried to reconcile the steam of a passing trainwith the marble of the past; and then drove for four milesalong a well-paved road to the ancient city. Every knoll andvale on the route, every Greek-lettered house and passing na-tive was the subject of interest to us because of its relation tothe great race that made illustrious history there. Even thedrivers of our carriages might have been descendants of menwho spoke with the tongues of angels. We did not graduate our observations in Athens by holding 50 Six and One Abroad in reserve the best cf the citys features until we had seenthe minor things as is the usual method of procedure, but grati-j&ed curiosity at once by proceeding direct to the biggest andbest that Athens has— The Acropolis. To lift the eyes from the mean and mercenary surroundings,at the base of this noble old hill, along its great sweep of rock. THE PILLARS OF THE PARTHENON. as it rises like ancient Greece itself above the present, to its cli-max of art in sculpture—the shell of its departed glory—andhaving with divers interesting experiences mounted by thezigzag and almost precipitous route to the summit where sitsin such majesty this heirloom of Greece, to ramble reflectivelyamong its marbles, far above the din and cry of unseemly com-merce, under the same blue sky that spread its canopy abovethe patriots and scholars of the olden time—there is no fitterspot upon the earth to realize the impotency of man and the Athens—Its Ruins 51 providence of God, the sic transit gloria of all things here be-low. Museum vandals have despoiled the Parthenon of its statuesand carried them away into uncongenial captivity to consortwith antiquities of less repute and without repute, and manyothers have been violated by barbarians who knew them only aspearls are kno\ to swine. Not one has been left, and scarcelyany o
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