. Stories for the household . is all the time the busy race candevote to the whole of England and Scotland. Then the journey is con- 446 Stories for the Household. tinued through the turmel under the English Channel, to France, thelaud of Charlemagne and Napoleon. Moliere is named: the learnedmen talk of the classic school of remote antiquity : there is rejoicing andshouting for the names of heroes, poets, and men of science, whom ourtime does not know, but who will be born after our time in Paris, thecentre of Europe, and elsewhere. The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus wen
. Stories for the household . is all the time the busy race candevote to the whole of England and Scotland. Then the journey is con- 446 Stories for the Household. tinued through the turmel under the English Channel, to France, thelaud of Charlemagne and Napoleon. Moliere is named: the learnedmen talk of the classic school of remote antiquity : there is rejoicing andshouting for the names of heroes, poets, and men of science, whom ourtime does not know, but who will be born after our time in Paris, thecentre of Europe, and elsewhere. The air steamboat flies over the country whence Columbus went forth,where Cortez was born, and where Calderon sang dramas in soundingverse. Beautiful black-eyed women live still in the blooming valleys,and the oldest songs speak of the Cid and the Alhambra. Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old, ever-lasting Rome. It has vanished! The Campagna lies desert: a singleruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peters, but there is a doubtif this ruin be THE SHIP OF THE AIR. Xext to Greece, to sleep a night in the grand hotel at the top of MountOlympus, to say that they have been there ; and the journey is continuedto the Bosphorus, to rest there a few hours, and see the place whereByzantium lay; and where the legend tells that the harem stood in thetime of the Turks, poor fishermen are now spreading their nets. Over the remains of mighty cities on the broad Danube, cities whichwe in our time know not, the travellers pass; but here and there, onthe rich sites of those that time shall bring forth, the caravan sometimesdescends, and departs thence agaiu. l)o\vn below lies Germany, that was once covered with a close net ofrailways and canals, the region where Luther spoke, where Goethe sang,and Mozart once held the sceptre of harmony. Great names shine there,in science and in art, names that are unknown to us. One day devotedto seeing Germany, and one for the North, the country of Oersted andLinnaeus, and fo
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