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 . cavahy, and artillerybeing interspersed with many bands ofmusic. At the corner of the Luxem-bourg garden, where a statue of VictorHugo has been erected, each grouphalted and the bands plajed a funeralmarch. All heads were bared when thesimple
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 . cavahy, and artillerybeing interspersed with many bands ofmusic. At the corner of the Luxem-bourg garden, where a statue of VictorHugo has been erected, each grouphalted and the bands plajed a funeralmarch. All heads were bared when thesimple hearse passed. The steps of thePantheon were covered yards high withflowers. By four oclock the last wordhad been said, and the body of VictorHugo was borne to the vault in the crypt,and laid to rest beside the tomb ofRousseau. 842 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. CHAPTER NINETY-FIVE Laborers for Peace.—Tlie New Territories pi veil to European Powers by the Congo Conference.—Impossibility of Permanent Peace. — Believers in Arbitration.—M. De Lesseps and Mr. Stanley.—The United States of Europe. — Victor Hugos Dream. — Republican Sentiment. — The Strengthen-ing of the French Republic. — Will Storm and Calm Forever Alternate in Europe ? ENTHUSIASTIC believers in thepossibility of permanent peace inthe world might derive some support for. KING OF BELGIUM. their belief from the fact that so manymen in exalted station are engaged inpacific enterprises, rather than in those ofconquest. They could point to the King ofthe Belgians as a conspicuous instance ofone, who, aided by the ablest and wisestof lieutenants, has made what mighthave been a sanguinary and reprehensi-ble conquest only a tranquil, although resistless, pushing forward of civilizationinto the troubled wilderness. Mr. Stan-leys story and his relation to the Kingof the Belgians in their joint magnificententerprise are now well-known through-out the world. As the result of the CongoCongress, mentioned in a prec
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