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 . gentle music ofthe guitor ; and under the awning of the EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 59 green-latticed cafis the Spanisli peddlers,who have trudged up from Burgos, orValladolid, offer blankets, long kniveswith beautifully carved handles, andscen
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 . gentle music ofthe guitor ; and under the awning of the EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. 59 green-latticed cafis the Spanisli peddlers,who have trudged up from Burgos, orValladolid, offer blankets, long kniveswith beautifully carved handles, andscent-bottles from Tangiers. On the Spanish coast at San Sebas-tian, where Dona Isabel went in her are no longer the same. The grave andearnest Basque, ignorant but conscien-tious and virtuous, salutes the strangerwith solemn courtesy. Here and thereare touches upon a relic of the abortivecampaigns of. successive Don saunter slowly by, smoking cigar-ettes, and lazily swinging theirumbrellas. The fields have a neg-lected look. San Sebastian is adelightful little city, coquettish,fresh, flooded with brilliant sun-light, set down at the base of loftymountains whose peaks shine likeblocks of crystal. It extends fromthe pretty bay of La Concha, atthe mouth of which is the islandof Santa Clara, to the mouth ofthe Urremea river. Seaward from. PROCLAIMIISTG THE SPANISH REPUBLIC. flight, the sport of bathing goes on untileven the first days of November. FromBiarritz to San Sebastian is but an hoursride by diligence, but in that hour thetraveller feels as if lie had in some un-accountal)le manner left Europe behindhim. Architecture has changed; thecostumes of the people by the waysideare ditftrent; manners, speech, gestures, the [)roniontory of Bilbao to Biarritz onesees the waves lap the crags and masses ofstone, whose yellow and reddish colorscontrast strangely with the white foamdashing now and then over their San Sebastian one finds valleys full ofshade and
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