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 . owy formshave met; hundreds of lives are lost,and the next morning a Imndred news-papers tell a story of horror. It seemsas if these disasters were fated to occurfrom time to time. Innocent emigrantsbound over seas are swept out of exist-ence
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 . owy formshave met; hundreds of lives are lost,and the next morning a Imndred news-papers tell a story of horror. It seemsas if these disasters were fated to occurfrom time to time. Innocent emigrantsbound over seas are swept out of exist-ence l)efore they have got out of sightof hind. Now and then the Channelswallows up a victim in a most mys-terious manner, as it took down the Eurydice close by the Isle of AViglit. It is strange that there is so little saidand sung about the Channel in England,while so much is made of it in is true that the English have theirattention diverted to greater seas and narrower escapes farther from home, butthey have produced no one who has sungor spoken so melodiously or forcibly ofthe historic strait as the old gray-hairedpoet who lived on a Channel island forhalf a generation rather than breathethe air of Paris with the usurper. Vic-tor Hugo is a good sailor, immenselyfond of the sea, and from his coign ofvantage in Guernsey, studied the Chan-. VICTOll HUGO. nel as lovingly as in his youth he hadstudied Paris. In his Toilers of theSea it is always the phenomena of theChannel that he describes, the worn andcrumbling rocks, the bold shores, thetormented waters, the sudden storms,the flashing of tlie lightning, and themysterious and deadly mists of LaManche. He tells with pathetic forcein one of his books the story of thatlirave Cai)tain Harvey who went downin the Channel on the night of the 17th 532 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. of March, 1870, while making his usualtrip in his fine steamship the Nor-mandy, from Southampton to Guern-sey. Harvey was known to the vener-able poet, b
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