Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . delight; an indescribable sensation of pleasure pervaded our minds on finding ourselves in the very cradle of courtesy, gentility and politeness; the palace city of the genius of artifice, taste, ,,j_, and fashion; the Mecca of the painter, novelist, and sculptor; the great caravansary bM of the amusement-loving, pleasure-seeking, and fashionable world. Paris as a city is jf the crowning glory of the earth; it is beauty, brilliancy, grandeur, and splendor all harmoniou
Around the world with Philip Phillips, "the singing pilgrim." A pictorial tour of the globe illustrated by pen and pencil .. . delight; an indescribable sensation of pleasure pervaded our minds on finding ourselves in the very cradle of courtesy, gentility and politeness; the palace city of the genius of artifice, taste, ,,j_, and fashion; the Mecca of the painter, novelist, and sculptor; the great caravansary bM of the amusement-loving, pleasure-seeking, and fashionable world. Paris as a city is jf the crowning glory of the earth; it is beauty, brilliancy, grandeur, and splendor all harmoniously combined, in adoration of which the whole civilized world may be truly said to bend the knee. In order to see Paris thoroughly it is necessary to take a twelve-mile sail up and down the waters of the River Seine, spanned with its twenty-seven bridges of stone, iron, and wire, many of which are of the most elaborate construction and architecture, and ornamented with a richness to which no jien can do justice in descri])tion. From these bridges can be seen nearly the entire river front, with its massive granite l)E T RTOILE 124 a large part ol iho inosl interesting portion of the city, long, lioulevards andextensive gardens, with ])alaces and world-famed structures beside and in the midst of them,])resenting a sjiectacle of melrD])olitan beauty and attractiveness not to be found in any othercity in either hemisiihere. The thousands and thousands upon i)leasure lient, to be seen during jjleasant afternoonson the famous boulevards, the Champs Klysees, and 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
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