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 . with thousands of others,every morning, while listening to themusic of a regimental band. In im-portant naval and military stations, thereis almost no show of uniforms, for theEnglish ofRcei doffs his costume as soon hend the weekly excursion
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 . with thousands of others,every morning, while listening to themusic of a regimental band. In im-portant naval and military stations, thereis almost no show of uniforms, for theEnglish ofRcei doffs his costume as soon hend the weekly excursions of throngs ofcockneys. At the French seaside resort, theCasino, with its gay crowds of richlycostumed ladies of the upper, middle,and the lower worlds, and the beach,with its freakish and perfectly unre-strained caruivals of bathing, furnishes,perhaps, more amusement than can befound in any English coast town. The? continental peoples do not go to the. ox THE SANDS AT BRIGHTON. as he is off duty. The variegated as-pect of the street of a German garrisontown, where hundreds of officers areclanking their swords and perpetuallysaluting, is unknown in England. Thehotel, the pier, the promenade alongthe shore, the daily assemblage, espe-cially in ports like Dover and Folke-stone, to see the new arrivals and tocomment upon them, — these, joined tothe most discreet bathing, in which thesexes are separated with prodigious care,are the main points observable at Eng-lish seaside resorts, unless we compre- seaside for rest or recreation, the^ gofor jollity, perhaps for dissipation, forfrolics. The English ride, drive, walk,play lawn tennis, bathe, and feed, onscientific principles ; they are not in pur-suit of pleasure so much as of healthand repose. Very beautiful and impressive are thewhite cliffs of England, rising out of theChannel on a calm summers day, andvcr} remote and much-to-be-longed-fordo they seem when the traveller is toil-ing
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