a m 1 ! H HOUSEHOLD EDUCATIONAL SERIES. No, 31. SEPT. 15th, 1893. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $25,00 PER YEAR. ENTERED AT CHICAGO POST-OFFICE AS SECOND CLASS MATTER. JOHN L. STODDARD’S PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS CITIES, SCENES AND PAINTINGS.. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY Educational Publishing Company Chicago if i 2 I I •i*. ■üli^v \The sixteen Photographs u?bi(h are incMed in this one Art Series uiolild cost yoii $24.00. This Art Series, which will be published weekly, represents an expenditure of many thousands of dollars, and embraces the largest and finest collection of photographic views from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America, ever published. Among the hundreds of views it will contain are the following: EUROPE. France—Pams—Panorama of Paris, Place de la Concorde, Boulevard Madeleine, Rue de Rivoli, Eiffel Tower, Vendome Column, Column of July, Hotel des Invalides, Tomb of Napoleon, The Bourse, Trocadero, Grand Opera House, Exterior, Grand Opera House, Interior, Arch of Triumph, Madeleine, Louvre. Louvre Gallery —Venus de Milo, Statuary, Unknown; Marriage of Marie de Medicis, Painting; Immaculate Conception, Painting, Murillo. Luxembourg Gallery—Napoleon III at Solferino, Painting, Meissonier. Versailles Royal Palace, Napoleon’s Carriage, Boudoir of Marie Antoinette, Trianon, Gallery of Battles. Versailles Gallery—Battle of Rivoli, Painting, Philippoteaux; Last Days of Napoleon at St. Helena, Statuary, Vela. Fontainebleau—Royal Palace; Gallery of Henry II, Royal Palace. \ Southern France—Promenade, Nice; Casino, Monte Carlo. England—Windsor Castle; Haddon Hall; Kenilworth Castle; Shakespeare’s House, Stratford-on-Avon; Ann Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-on-Avon; Churchyard of Stoke-Pogis; Liverpool, Lime Street and Station. London—Thames Embankment and Obelisk; Trafalgar Square; London Bridge; Bank of England; Houses of Parliament; St. Paul’s Cathedral; Tower of London; Westminster Abbey; Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey; Albert Memorial; Old Curiosity Shop; Throne Room, Buckingham Palace. Ireland—Muckross Abbey, Blarney Castle. Dublin— Custom House, Grattan Statue. Scotland—Panorama, Edinburgh, Abbotsford, Balmoral Castle, Holyrood Palace, Melrose Abbey, The Tros-sachs, Ellen’s Isle, Loch Katrine, Fingal’s Cave, Island of Staffa, Burns’ Cottage. Norway—North Cape, Group of Lapps; The Fish Market Bergen; Naerodal Pass. Sweden—Stockholm—Grand Hotel, Royal Palace. Denmark—Copenhagen—The Bourse, Rosenberg Palace. Germany—Frankfort, Gutenberg Monument, Frankfort; Cologne, Heidelberg Castle, Coblentz on the Rhine Gutenfels and the Pfalz, Oberammergau, Passion Play. Berlin—Emperor’s Palace, Prince Bismarck’s Residence, Brandenberg Gate, Royal Museum, Unter den Linden, Comedy Theatre, Schiller Platz. Dresden Gallery—1The Holy Night, Painting, Correggio; Madonna di San Sisto, Painting, Raphael. Holland—King’s Palace, Amsterdam; Panorama, The Hague, Rotterdam. Belgium—Cathedral and Statue of Rubens, Antwerp. Brussels—The Bourse, Royal Palace, Palace of Justice. Switzerland—Panorama Lucerne, Panorama Geneva, Thun and Bernese Alps, The Mer de Glace, Mont Blanc, St. Gotthard Pass and Bridge. Austria—Vienna—Maximilian Platz, Volksgarten and Theseum, House of Parliament, Hofburg Theatre, Museums and Statue Marie Theresa, The Graben. Italy—Rome—St. Peter’s; Vatican Library; Sistine Chapel; Vatican; Colosseum, Exterior; Colosseum, Interior; The Forum; Appian Way; Castle San Angelo and River Tiber; The Capitol; Dying Gladiator, Statuary, Unknown. • Vatican Gallery—Old Father Nile, Statuary, Unknown; Transfiguration, Painting, Raphael. Florence—Panorama of Florence; Palazzo Vecchio; Ponte Vecchio, Hall of Saturn, Pitti Palace, Loggia di Lauzi; Seizure of Polyxena, Loggia di Lanzi, Statuary, Fedi; David, Statuary, Michael Angelo. Venice—Grand Canal, The Piazetta, The Rialto, St. Mark’s Cathedral, Bridge of Sighs, Palazzo Ducale. Naples—Panorama Naples, Bay and Mount Vesuvius, Santa Lucia; Pompeii— Civil Forum, Sorrento. Milan —Cathedral; Statue, Leonards da Vinci. Pisa— Leaning Tower. Genoa—Statue of Columbus. Turin —Piazza Carlo Alberto. Lake Maggiore—Isola Bella. Sicily—Palermo, Monte Pellegrino. Island of Capri— Marino Grande, Blue Grotto. Spain—Madrid— Royal Palace. Granada—Alhambra, from the Generaliffe; Winter Palace, Alhambra; Tombs of Ferdinand and Isabella. Semlle—Salon of Maria de Padilla, Alcazar; The Giralda, Tower of Gold. Gibraltar—Fortifications. Portugal—Lisbon, Panorama Oporto. Russia—St, Petersburg—Winter Palace. Moscow—General View of Moscow, House of the Romanoff Czars, Kremlin, Tower of Ivan Veliki and Great Bell. Turkey—Constantinople—Panorama Constantinople and Bosphorus, Imperial Palace, Mosque of Achmet. Greece—Athens—Modern Athens, Parthenon, Propylaea. AFRICA. Egypt—Cairo—Views from Citadel; Citadel; Street Scene, Old Cairo. Alexandria—Harbor; Pompey’s Pillar; . Palace, Pasha’s Harem; Mahmudiyeh Canal. Ghizeh— Pyramids and Sphinx, Climbing the Great Pyramid. Thebes—Avenue of Sphinxes, Karanak; Rameseum; Ruins; Statue of Rameses II; Nile Pleasure Boats; Suez Canal. Algeria—Group of Moorish Women. Morocco —Cape Spartel, Tangiers. South Africa—Cape Town, from Harbor. ASIA. Syria—Damascus, Prison of St. Paul. Palestine—Jerusalem—Garden of Gethsemane, Mosque of Omar, Church of Holy Sepulchre, Mount of Olives. Bethlehem—Panorama View, Rachel’s Tomb, Nazareth; Jericho; River Jordan; Station, Ramleh. ^ India—Vale of Cashmere; Gateway to Lucknow; Bridge of Shops,Srinagar; Himalaya Mountains from Darjeeling; Galta Valley, Jeypore; Taj Mahal, Agra; Nassick. Delhi—JummaMusjid. Calcutta—Government House, Native Village, Clive Street. t J B / ? Japan—Panorama Yokohama and Harbor; Great Bronze Buddha, Kamakura; Six Angle Temple, Kioto; Street and Mitsui Bank, Tokio; Anio Men, Yezo. Australia—Collins Street, Melbourne; Sydney. SOUTH AMERICA. Chili—Valparaiso and Harbor; National Congress Building, Santiago; Upspallata Pass, Andes Mountains. Ecuador—Mount Chimborazo. Uruguay—Montevideo. Brazil—Rio de Janeiro—Harbor; Corcovado, fro» Botanical Gardens. WEST INDIES. Cuba—Havana; Tropical Scenery. NORTH AMERICA. Mexico—City of Mexico.—Panorama from Cathedral; Cathedral; Panorama Guanajuato; Straw Cottages,, Salamanca; Water Carriers, Aquadores; The Aqueduct at Queretaro. Canada—Houses of Parliament, Ottawa; Montreal and Mt. Royal; Thousand Islands, St. Lawrence River; The Three Sisters, Canmore. Alaska—Muir Glacier; The Bear, Totem Poles. United States—Washington, D. C.—The Capitol, The White House, Pennsylvania Avenue. Virginia—Washin6,.*>i* s House, Mount Vernon. Pennsylvania—Independence Hall, Philadelphia. New Jersey—The Beach, Atlantic City. New York—Panorama New York City and Brooklyn Bridge; Statue of Liberty, New York Harbor; Up the Hudson from West Point; Niagara Falls. Massachusetts—Boston Common; Bunker Hill Monument; Longfellow’s House, Cambridge; The Washington Elm, Cambridge. Illinois—Masonic Temple, Chicago. Tennessee—Lookout Mountain. Florida—St. Augustine—Panorama, from Ponce de Leon; On Indian River. New Mexico—Adobe Houses. Colorado—Canyon de las Animas; Windy Point, Pike’s Peak Trail; Mountain of the Holy Cross; The Royal Gorge. Arizona—Cliff Dwellings, Mancos Canyon. Yellowstone National Park—Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, Crater of the Giant Geyser, Mammoth Hot Springs. Utah—Mormon Temple and Park, Salt Lake City. Idaho—Shoshone Falls. Oregon—Mount Hood. California—China Town, San Francisco; Cliff House and Seal Rocks, Golden Gate; Yosemite Valley—View from Artists’ Point; El Capitan; Glacier Pointy “Wawona,” Big Tree; Mohave Desert. © Copyright, 1893.PORTFOLIO OF PHOTOGRAPHS OF FAMOUS SCENES, CITIES AND PAINTINGS PREPARED UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND TRAVELER JOHN L. STODDARD CONTAINING A RARE AND ELABORATE COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD OF NATURE AND ART. PRESENTING AND DESCRIBING THE CHOICEST TREASURES OF Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, North and South America THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY ' EDUCATIONAL PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGOiINTRODUCTION SOME YEARS AGO, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, a gentleman encountered a French priest, his locks completely white with age, traveling apparently for pleasure. Astonished at the sight, he ventured to inquire what had induced him S his time of life to go so far from home. “ ’Tis very easily explained,” replied the priest; “six months ago I was apparently about to die. One night I dreamed that I was already in God’s presence and that He spoke to me these words: ‘My child, how did you like the beautiful world I gave you to dwell in?’ I answered nothing; in fact I was too mortified to answer. For think of it! I who had preached for fifty years continually of a ‘better world,’ had never examined this at all. Awaking from my dream I made a vow to God, that if He gave me back my health, I would devote some months at least to seeing and admiring his works. So here T am, making a tour of the world!” All of us cannot, it is true, pursue the plan of the French priest in actually traveling around the globe, but, thanks to modern art, even those whom circumstances keep at home may make that tour in imagination. “The world is mine!” cried Monte Cristo on emerging from his dungeon. “The world is mine!” may now exclaim each man, woman and child who holds this volume in his hands, in a far truer sense than any of their ancestors could possibly have used these words even fifty years ago. Then, men could only READ descriptions of the marvels of the world in nature, architecture, painting, sculpture, or imposing ruins, but had no means of looking on their counterparts save in some rare and frequently inaccurate paintings or engravings. To-day, how changed the scene! In order to make real advancement, “Hitch your wagon to a star,” was the advice of Emerson; in other words, join forces with the mighty powers of the universe, and progress is assured. And man has followed the advice of that Philosopher of Concord. Some daring spirits made OUR “Star” (the sun) their willing slave, and, lo! by the assistance of that subtle alchemist the wonders of the earth are printed with infallible accuracy, and multiplied so easily that even the remotest village in Australia or America may hold within itself sun-tinted reproductions of rare scenes, to which even language does imperfect justice, just as the little wayside pool may treasure in its shallow depths the glorious reflection of a cloudless sky. This admirable series will include such solar portraits selected from a multitude which hang within the picture-gallery of the traveler’s memory. They cover almost every country on the globe, from the North Cape, which rises like a mighty sentinel to guard the coast of northern Europe from the Arctic storms, to where the ruined shrines of India and Egypt raise their sublime but mutilated forms in silent protest at the ravages of Time and Man, fanned meanwhile by the perfumed breath of tropic vegetation or shaded by the drooping fringes of the palm. Or, if we trace the progress of these pictures as they indicate the East and West, they show to us the strange peculiarities of race and clime, from the unique and fascinating civilization of Japan to the barbaric splendor of the Russian Kremlin, or the enchanting beauty of the Bosphorus. Such faithful delineations of the works of God and man are not designed to merely please the eye. To those who have not traveled they stimulate their longing for a visit either to the Old World or the New, and possibly lead them to decide to start at once and make their life-dream a reality. To those who have been fortunate enough to see their grand originals, these pictures serve as charming souvenirs, recalling pleasant incidents which might otherwise have faded gradually from their recollection. Moreover, to those who are fond of narrating to their friends the beauty of some celebrated view, or the magnificence of some famous building, these pictures deftly supplement their eloquence, and render still more vivid and attractive their description. Nor is this all. Such glimpses of the world as here lie before us, impart an added charm to books of travel and of history. To read a printed page of Prescott’s story of the Conquest of Mexico certainly gives pleasure in itself; but how that pleasure is increased for us if we can turn from time to time and see portrayed in beauty and with perfect accuracy, in a series like this, the City of the Montezumas, or the imposing form of the sublime volcano Popocatapetl, which at the coming of the Spaniards was still, as its old Aztec name denotes, “The Smoking Mountain,” and which the Indians looked upon as the abode of tortured spirits, whose writhing in their fiery prison-house produced the great convulsions which had marked its history! Even in reference to modem times, to merely READ of Valparaiso and the Chilians conveys a very limited idea ofeither the city or its inhabitants, compared with that acquire® by the views of those identical localities? Again, and perhaps most important of all, who can sufficiently praise the influence of faithful illustrations in stimulating study AND INVESTIGATION? Pictures are keys which unlock for us many libraries. Without their charm our minds too often would not be led on to explore the facts of which the illustrations are the symbols. Thus, pictures of the Courts of the Alhambra inspire one to learn the history of the accomplished, fascinating race, which made that Moorish citadel a peerlffls specimen of Arabian art and Oriental splendor. A view of Scott’s delightful home at Abbotsford, or of fair “Ellen’s Isle” floating like a medallion on the bosom of Loch Katrine, awakens a desire to read the “Lady of the Lake” and other works by the same gifted author; while by beholding in reality or on the illumined page the stately Trossachs, or romantic Melrose Abbey, hallowed by Scott’s genius, we realize as never before the debt of gratitude the world still owes to that enchanting “Wizard of the North.” To one, therefore, who looks aright through these attractive pages, the graceful forms depicted here are eloquent in their suggestiveness. A hundred different works of poetry, art, history, and fiction, by the best writers of the world, are quickly called to mind by one who sees beneath the surface of these lights and shadows. Is it on scenes in Prance or Germany that we are gazing? What histories of the French Revolution, of Napoleon and of Frederick the Great, do not at once present themselves as pleasurable subjects for a winter’s reading? Are we beholding views of Florence? Instinctively we wish to read among the many books associated with that city of the Renaissance, George Eliot’s “Romola,” and Grimm’s “Life of Michael Angelo.” Are we enjoying Roman pictures? Here truly the amount of ecclesiastical, historical, poetical and classic literature thus suggested is too immense to be enumerated. While hardly can a single portraiture of art or scenery in Italy, Switzerland, Greece, or on the castle-bordered Rhine, be spread out before us, without invoking memories of that incomparable volume of the traveler’s library, Lord Byron’s masterpiece, “Childe Harold,” whose thrilling stanzas one by one were left by him like a long line of detached pearls to mark the poet’s pilgrimage from land to land. For let us not deceive ourselves. The benefit of travel comesBot from the distance traversed nor from the scenes reflected on the retina, BUT FROM THE INTELLECTUAL STIMULUS THUS AWAKENED, AND THE AMOUNT ■OFThought and reading which result Therefrom, just as a man is nourished not by the quantity of food which he may EAT, but by the amount which he assimilates and makes his own. Thus properly followed up and utilized, this series of selections from the world’s great treasure-house may prove more beneficial to the thoughtful reader and ooserves than actual travel round the globe would be to one who did not wake to the significance of what he saw. “That stick, sir, has been round the world,” exclaimed a man one day to Sidney Smith, as he held out to him a valued cane. “Dear me!” was the reply, “and yet it is only a stick after all.” When Italy, Greece, Egypt, India and other lands, have become permanent and intelligible possessions of our minds, then we have really in the best sense visited them. Yet one may do this by reaHng and the aid of illustrations even at his fireside, while some one else, apparently more fortunate, may see those countries with his own eyes and yet know next to nothing of the part which they have played on the stage of history. An ancient proverb says that the world is a kind of a book, of which we have read merely the first page when we have seen only our own country. It is true. Goethe has justly said: “Wem Gott will rechte Kunst erweisen, Den schikte Er in die Weite Welt” (“Him whom the gods true art would teach, ' They send out in the mighty world”). WhethH this®‘sending out” into the world be interpreted literally, or as referring to the mind awakened to activity through the printed and the pictured page, the truth is still the same. Expansion, growth, broader experience, and wider charity, these are the fruits of that REAL travel which is of the mind. It may be said that these illustrations here are not harmonious because collected in so many and such different lands. They do present a great variety, it is true, yet the same solar artist sketched them all, as one by one the globe of which they form a part rolled its successive groups of Nature and Humanity within its brilliant grasp! To represent them all would be impossible. This Series therefore may be likened to some of those mosaic tables which we occasionally see in some of the grand palaces of Florence, whose polished surface is composed of precious stones, each worthy of minute inspection, yet forming with the rest a combination of artistic excellence all the more pleasing from its wonderful variety. And if you ask what rule the lapidary has followed in his groupings of the greater part of the mosai® represented in his work, he can reply that his chief motive in fleeting them has been like that of the Duke of Buckingham, when, in the place where Anne of Austria had whispered th'at she loved him, he purposely let fall a precious gem, desirous that by finding it another might be happy where he himself had been. PANORAMA OF PARIS.—Paris is the city of the Present, as Rome is of the Past. Others may imitate it, but no metropolis of modern times can really be compared to the French capital for its elegance of decoration, the refined gaiety of its manners, and the superb arrangement of its streets and boulevards, together with the magnificence of its architectural triumphs. If Switzerland is “the play-ground of Europe,” Paris is its favorite place of amusement. Hither come yearly hundreds of thousands of ple^^^Heekers from every quarter of our globe. There is.everything in Paris to please, Mstruct and charm. Almost every window is an exhibition of art. Each prominent street is fr.^^fflitlHthe centre of some Carnival. The river Seine which divides Paris into two very nearly equal se:ction^^»ts arrow-like beneath twenty-eight bridges, many of which are eloqueiHof history. This French metropolis has a population of nearly two and a half millions, but is exceedingly compact on account of the French custom of living in apartments raMer than in separate houses. It is a beautifully clean city. The care bestowed upon its thoroughfares is something which excites the admiration of all tourists, and is in painful contrast to the way in which the streets of many of our great American cities are neglected. Perhaps this is one out of many reasons why “ Good Americans, when they die, go to Paris.” «iP® Mm 118111 Ä4« rjBfc-y^^ääs [«•>'■¥"■: ' »fp I 1^ WwMr ANN HATHAWAY’S COTTAGE, STRATFORD-ON-A YON, ENGLAND.—This charming little cottage stil^^^Ms in substanGa^^ffie same fflndition as wht^^fflakespeare came here to whisper to his future wife, Ann Hathaway, the story S his love. It is stilHccupied by a descendant of the Hathaway family. There can be little fflubt that the man who has given to the world that most adorable of lovers, Romeo, must have himself been an imcomparable suitor. For whatever may be said about great Geniuses making poor husbands, there can be little question of their fascination in those delightful moments of uncertainty and novelty commonly known as courtship and the honeymoon. Standing here listening to the nightingales and thrushes, one recalls with pleasure these lines attributed to Shakespeare: ‘‘Would ye be taught, ye feathered throng, With love’s swefflnotes to frame your song? To pierce my heart with thrilling lay, Listen to my Ann Hathaway! She hat h-a-way to sing so clear, Phoebus might, wondering, stoop to hear; To melt the sad, make blithe the gay, To charm all hearts, Ann hat^ra-wayf * She hath-a-way, Ann Hathaway, To breathe deHht, Ann hath-a-way ! ” mm ISsl^SP »*§5# >^V»j ELLEN’S ISLE, LOCH KATRINE, SCOTLAND.—One of the loveliest featureffln the Trossachs is the little sheet of water known as Loch Katrine. It is diminutive, but so incomparably situated that its small size makes Hthe more enchanting, since not a single charm escap^^^H What can be more attractive than the combination here of light and shade, when its fair surface is flecked by touches of the sun and clouds ? AroundH; mountains rear their m^gsive forms like giant guardians of the peaceful lake, within which they again appear like an inverted world, until we can with diflicuHr tell which is the real and wptch the counterfeit presentment ! Moreover, its heathery banks and limpid waves, so long as they endure, will be fondly associated with Memories of Sir Walter Scott and his fairest creation, the “Lady of the Lake.” In fact the pretty island in the center is still known as “Ellen’s Isle,” for, according to Scott’s fancy, this wave-encircled sylvan retreat was the home of that fair Lady of the Lake, “Her head thrown back, her lips apart, Like Monument of Grecian art.” Scott is the special genius of this place, and here one fairly revels in the scenes portrayed with absolute perfection by his magic pen. Each point recalls some stanza or some well-known line, so accurate are his poetica^^^fflptions. Never was a w^Jr more particular in this respect than Scott. For example, while writing the “ Lady of the Lake,” he once galloped the entire distance from Loch Achray to Stirling to prove to ly^Blf that his hero could have ridden it in a certain time!BLARNEY CASTLE, IRELAND.—ThH“Emerald Isle” abounds in lovely bits of scenery, of which some ivy-mantled abbey or histoffl castle forms a charming feature. One of the most renowned of these Old Irish ruins is Blarney Castle, not far from Cork. On the highest pointMf the northeast angHof the tower is a stone bearing the date of 1703, and held in position by two iron bars. In 1825 Sir Walter Scott, while on a tour through Ireland, kissed this “Blarney Stone,” as thousands of tourists do every year. The effect which this act has upon the eloquence of anyone who thus salutes it is thus told in verse: To a lady’s chamber Or become a member Of Parliament. A clever spouter x He’ll sure turn out, or An out-and-outer ‘ ‘ There is a stone there That whoever kisses Oh! he never misses To grow eloquent. ’Tis he may clamber To be left alone. Don’t hope to hinder him, Or to bewilder him; Sure’s, he’s a pilgrim. From the Blarney Stone.”pBlORAMA OF STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN.—StBkholin is one of theBost be^aifully lHated cities in tbHworld. It ha^^ran Hlled the Venice of the North. It is founded on six islands, and through it sweeps a gloriqps flood of deep green waffl, whffl is the overflow of the beautiful Lake Malar, half a mile away, making its tumultuous exit to the Baltic. How fascinating is that mass of emerald water rushing impetuouB throBh the cK with half the uproar of a catarabB Upon its fair expanse, a.stone’s throw only from the Grand Hotel, are usually half a dozen steamers bound to various places on ^^gwedish coast, whil^wirough thB mid^^mom point toBint, dart back and forth a mfflitude of little steam launches, about the size o^^K-b^^9 Th^^Hre the ferry-boatMf ^^^fflholm, and takfflhe place of hoiBcars in our cities. On soiB of the islandBf Stockholm, and at many points B its vicinity, are lovely gardens and places of amusement, whiB make ^^Bwedish capital a charming pl^^Bf residence in The peoBe then spend as much time as ^^Sble in the open air. There is then in that northern latitude almost no darkness, and the long summer ever^^^Biarked by a silvery light^^m n^Rr wane^^^Bierelv brightens into dawn, are even more enchan ing than the days. The cordial hospitality, sunny dispositions and exquisite politeness of the Swedes are additional reasons why the traveler remembers Stockholm with great pleasure.GROUP OP LAPPS, NORWAY.—Near the North Cape, on the Northwestern coast of Norway, are settlements of Laplanders, frequently visited by travelers in their tour through the “Land of the Midnight Sun.” One v^; usually satisfies the tourist’s curiosity. The Lapps are by no means beafflful, tractive or cleanly. They are short in sta^^Bthe men being about five feS high, and the women jour. They usually haHhigh cheek bones, wizened faces, flat noses, and small almond-shaped eybsWThey wear garments made of rein^^Hskin with the pelt turned outwairfS These garments last indefinitely and are handed down from parents to children. The lower limbs of the Lapps are usually covered with bands of worsted wound about the ankles, and leggings of whale skin, which fit their forms almost as tightly as if they were their own skin. The Lapps live in miserable huts made of wood, turf and straw, and lined with reindeer hide. One of these will often contain two or three families. They sell to tourists bone knives, fur purses and other objects of their own manufacture. They are tough and hardy like most dwarfs, and Dickens could have found among them many models for his character of Quilp. They are great smokers, and, as their huts are also filled with smoke, they apparently become at last thoroughly smoke-dried within and without. This creates an ardent thirst, and they are in consequence very fond of intoxicating liquors. When a Norwegian wishes to remonstrate with a friend for drinking to excess, he will say to him: “Don’t make a Lapp of yourself^HHEIDELBERG CASTLE, GERMANY.—One^qf the most charming features of the Old World is Heidelberg Castle towering above the river Neckar, which rolls beneath it like a flood of silver to the Rhine not many Hies away. Its situation Hglorious. From the “ Castle Hotel, Hust a$Q.ve the ruin itself, one gazes with increasing pleasure upon the shadow-darkened river and the great forest all about him, like a magnificent rug of deepest green, from which the castle rises in itsgrahdeur. The forest itself is threaded with countless paths completely sheltered from the sun, H early spring-time lined with violets and spanned at frequent intervals by half-ruined crowned with luxuriant wild flowers and caressed by the clinging fingi-rs of a hundred vines. A great variety of architecture is here displayed. Each portion of the building differs in style and finiHfrom its neighbor. The roofs possess no similarity. The great round tower is unique. But after a moment’s thought this difference in style is understood. For Heidelberg Castle was not, after all, the work of any one great architect, or even one age, but rather is a series of old palaces erected here by various princes through 300 years. A wonderfully fascinating place is the old court of Heidelberg either just afier sunset, or better still when the full moon is threading its deserted courts with silver sandalsH In that mysterious light its sculptured kings and warriors seem like living beings gathered here to «peak of the old times when these grand halls were filled with valiant knights, fair ladies and sweet-voiced minstrels.LUCERNE, SWITZERI AND.—One of the best known gateways into Switzerland is Lucerne, wh^ greets us ever a smile, peacefully Sting by its lovely lake. How many travelers will testify to the charm and beauty of this place, where one stands full of expectation, on the threshold ofKie land of mountains. It is a curias old town. Its pretty river is crossed by ancient bridges, adorned with quaint old paintings, and guarded still by mediaeval towers, which seem a trifle out of place within a land whose natural ramparts have been reared by the Almighty, and rise to such immensity that mail's poor battlements look in comparison like children’s toys. One of these sentinels, which alm^ casts its shadow on the town itself, is Mt. Pilate, 7,000 feet in height, harsh, cold and uninviting ia appearance, yet in reality containing thirty “Alps” or mountain meadows, upon which, graze four or five thousand head of sheep and ^itle. Upon this mountain Pontius Pilate is said to have committedKicide in his remorse for his condemnation of Jesus. But Mt. Pilate has a dangerous rival here; for on the other side of the old town is that most fashionable Alpine peak, the JRighi. Both of them now are easy to ascend, for enterprise has girded their fflep sides with iron rails, drawn paths of steel through their black-bearded forests, and finally has placed upon their crests a number of hotels. M u-eover, in front of^Lucerne is its enchantiH lake, twenty-two miles in length, along which steamers glide continuously, their shaded decks containing hundreds of delighted tourists. CAFil 5CHRAHC a*ypj THE GRABEN, VIENNA.—One of tlie oldest and most interesting streets in Vienna is that which we may now in imagination enter, called the Graben. It derives its name from the fact that this was the ancient Grab, or moat surrounded by the fortified wall, which rose where now are yonder tfflldings containing some of the mostEixurious and expensive retail shops in Vienna. One would hardly expect to find within this busy street the solitary survivor of the famous Wiener Wald, the ancient forest bordering the Danube! Yet at one corner of it is a most extraordinary looking object, protected partly by the wall of the building, and partly by some bands of iron. It is the famous Stock im Eisen, or the Iron stick, is well named, for its appearance is precisely that of an iron club. Investigation, however, proves it to be a mass of wood, literally covered with nails, to some of which coins are attached. One of these has the •date of 1575. This ancient tree (whSi apparently could not crumble now if Hshould try to) was for some car® now unknown, esteemed especially sacred; and everyone who drove a nail into its precious wood, received a spiritual shield against the 'dkffl. How odd it seems to see this strange reminder of the past, standi® tfius grimly in the very center of the city’s life 1 Just as some superstition, like a dread of Friday or thirteen at a table, still exists amid the common sense and scicnce^of the nineteenth century.“THE DYIN®jtAUL,®!APITOL, ROME.—One of the best known and most justly admired statues which have come down to us from antiquity is this pathetic figure popularly called the 44 Dying Gladiator, ” but probably representing a dying Gaul. In any case no words which have ever been written in regard to it are so appropriate and eloquent as the immortal lines of Byron: “ I see before metlSGlSmtor lie; He leans upon his hai^^Biis manly brow, Consents to death, but conquers agony, And ^^Blrpopn head sinks gradually low— And through his side tlHlast drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fafflheavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The Arena swims around him—he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won. “ HcBeardPI but he h^^aBot—his eyes WerS^^S^H heart, and that was far away; He reck’d nHra the life he iHs; nor prize, But wI^^Eiis rude hut by tlHDani^R lay, There were his young barbarians ^at play, TheiSJwas tfflir Dacian he, t^Rr sire, Butcher’d to make a Ro^^nho^^B— All this rush’d with his bloo(^^^Hl he expire? And uiWenged? Arise! ye Goths, and fflit your ire 1 ”STATUE OF COLUMBUS, GENOA, ITALY.—“Genoa, lf^M)erba” well deserves its name. Its situation is glorious and the view of the ocean spread out beneath its flower-crowned terraces is magnificent. The history of ^^^Ry is brilliant and eRitful, and one ever-memorable feature of it is commemorated in this n(Re statue recently erected in a prominent square •directly in front of the principal Genoese railway station. It greets the traveler, therefore, on arriving here; it bids him farewell as he takes his leave. The inscription briefly tells us what this handsome monument signifies, viz.: the jRt of a graRul^^mtry to Christopher Columbus. For it is the glory of Genoa to have been in 1435 the birthplace of that immortal discoverer. What though it has been proved that hardy Norsemen crossedRie North Atlantin, he leans against a wall for hours, looking like a soiled barber^fflle. When i®ht* comes helwdll change his position to a horizontal oH, but his colored blanket will st® envelop him. These Indians are said to be generally happy and contented, but it is hard to,believe it in view of iheir condition. Many of them certainly have a hopeless and even timid look, like that of a well-meaning dog that had been beaten and abused. The old Spaniards found the Aztecs in many respects a cultivated and intelligent race. They slaughtered them, however, by thousands and Seized upon their land, like robbers. The Indians have, therefore, had little chance to ameliorate their situation. There are about seven millions of them who must be educated and elevated before Mexico can start unfettered on the plane of other nations. This is now being attempted by a system of public instruction, which has in the last few years accomplished good results. MeanwhiHas a proof of thejcapacity of the natives under favorable conditions, it should be remembered that President Juarez, probably the atKst man whom Mexico has ever produced, was a full-blooded Indian.ON INDIAN RIVER, FLORIDA.—0d6 of thG greatest charms of Florida is the opportunity it sffords of sailing through tropical scenery. Several of its rivers Arc navigable for small steamers, and a more picturesque and delightful experience can hardly be imagined than that of gliding hour after hour between majestic cypress trees, magnolias, palmettos and palms, as though the palm-girt, cypress-bordered avenues of some southern Venice^whose palaces had sunk beneath the waves. It is true, there is something gruesome and uncanny in these everglades of FloridH Strange birds fly back and forth above our heads; black snakes are lurking in the shadows of the trees, and alligators float motionless upon the tranquil surface of the stream. To sail through scenes like this at night, when the strong headlfght of the boat brings out this weird and desolate foliage in startling relief, is something.never to be forgotten. The Indian river, represented in this illustration, has a length of nearly 150 miles. The lands adjoining it are very fertile, producing all the southern fruits, from oranges to cocoanuts, in great profusion. This river is especially famous, however, for the almost incredible number and vaiiety of fish which there abound, including the celebrated pompano, mullet and tarpon. Turtles also are found there weMnn^500 pounds. Twenty years ago this region was somewhat difficult of access. At present a branch railroad has brought it within easy reach of Jacksonville. The once sparsely s^tlecFcountry is rapidly becoming populated, and on the banks of this stream are several prosperous towns. mwM IMf mm BOSTON COMMON, BOSTON, MASS.—To a Bostonian the “ Common ” is almost sacred ground. No matter how crowded are the surrounding streets; no matter how inconvenient it may he to go around it; the Common must remain inviolate. It dates from 1634, and by the city’s charter, is made public property forever. It is unusual for a city to have thus in its very heart a park of 48 acres, laid out in sloping lawns and lovely walks; and this is the more remarkable since, divided from the common only by a single street, is another park of 22 acres called the Public Garden. TlnHtwo enclosur^Badorned with ponds, statuary and beds of flowers, form thus an enormous hollow square of 70 acres, of easy access to thousands: The great beauty of the Common lies in its magnificent elms which make the stately avenues beneath them completely shaded. No reader of Oliver Wendell Holmes can forget his allusions to the Common in his “ Autocrat” and “Professor at the Breakfast Table.” Above the Common, and shown to the right in picture, rises the handsome State house, .with its gilded dome, crowning the summit of Beacon Hill. On one side of it extends a part of Beacon Street, long famous for its fine residences, among which wa$ once the house of John Hancock. Another side is flanked by Tremont Street, now being rapidly transformed into attractive shops. Within a stone’s throw of the Common are many prominent buildings, such as the Public «*'***-■■ Library, the Masonic Temple, Music Hall, the Somerset Club, the Athenaeum Library, and the State House, already mentioned, as well as the Old Burying-Ground, where repose the patriots, John Hancock and Samuel Adams.“THE THOUSAND ISLANDS,” ST. LAWRENCE RIVER, CANADA.—Usually a name like that of “The Thousand Islands ” is more poetical than truthful, and vye smilingly agree to pardon the poetic license of exaggeration. But in this portion of the St. Lawrence River the nraaber Coplands actually is nearer 1,500 than 1,000. Their nearness, beauty and variety amaze the traveler. Commencing with Wolf Island, about 30 miles in length, they gradually increase in number, although diminishing in size, forming innumerable combinations, floating apparently at times in groups or else as individuals, and cutting thus the surface of the stream into a maze of intricate channels, which to a tourist appear bewildering. It is a charming day that the traveler spends in sailing in and calt along these liquid labyrinthfa SomeBcFf the “ thousand isles ” are uninhabited, others are owned by private individuals and hold embosomed in delightful foliage expensive and picturesque villas, whose inmates spend here weeks and months in summer. The names bestowed upon these fair retreats indicate the opinions entertained of them by their enthusiastic occupants: ,, Thus the three islands visible in this illustration are respectively called “ Nobby,” “ Castle Rest ” and “ Welcome.” Hotels are also found at frequent points. Boating and fishing are the principal amusements of the “ Islanders,” and these are always close at hand.f SACKYILLE STREET, DUBLIN.—The Irish are exceedingly proud of their capital, and well they may be. Its situation on the river Liffey near jg* entrance into Dublin Bay jlbeautiful, and many of its public buildings command the traveler’s admiration. - Its principal thorough®?! SaclBlle Strffl, has few superio^HEurope. In the centre, and dividing it into upper and lower Sackville Street, is a fluted Doric column 134 fffl in height, crowned by the statue of Nelson, and reared^ to commemorate the hero of Trafalgar. The cost of the monufflat was about $38,000, which was raised by popular sub^Sption. On every anniversary of Nelson’s greatest victories the Union Jack is,displayed from the top of the column. But the Nelson Monument is only one of the many striking features of Sackville Street. Here, for example, is the General Pffl Office, presenting a long and handsome facade adorned with statuary. Here also are several statues of distfflbuished Irish patriots, and many of the finest business blocks and hotels« the city. Moreover, this is the great promenade of Dublin, and it has been often stated that nowhere can there be seen more beautiful women than one may meet here on a pleasant afternoon. For if a “ real old Irish gentleman ” is one of the most agreeable of acquaintances and one of the truest and warmest of friends, so Irish ladies are not only charming in form and feature, but remarkably attractive from the rare combination they exhibit of high breeding and dignity together with a quick sympathy and warm-hearted impulsiveness, which no mere covering of conventionality can ever quite conceal.CASINO, MONTE CARLO, ITALY.—One of the loveliest places on the curving shore of the Mediterranean is the famous gambling resort of Monte Carlo. It is laid out in cultivated terraces, which overhang the pretty bay, where a multitude of pleasure boats are always moored. So far as outward attractiveness is concejlffiM Nature and Art have here combined to make this spot a veritable bit of paradise. Before it is the boundlffi sea, as smooth as glass and many colored as a prism; while in the rear are lovely olive-colored mountains which at sunset invaria® fold about their dimpled shoulders mantels of royal purple. Around this Casino aloes and orange trees are growing in luxuriance, and-here and there a tufted palm outlines its graceful form against the cloudless sky. Monte Ca^> owes much of its attractiveness to the late M. Blanc, who founded here this handsome gaming house/ At present the establishment is ^the hands of a French Company, and constantly entices weak humanity thither by its glittering promises of wealth. Within this Casino, apart from the gaming halls, there are well-furnished reading-rooms, and a richly decorated theatre where one can often hear delightful music. Russians are said to squander the most money here, but France furnishes the greatest number of players. Germans also are quite numerous, but us^^fl play with caution. England and America too are represented here, but chiefly by spectators rather than participants in the alluring game. From twelve to fifteen suicides occur here nearly every month.EDINBURGH, AND SCOTT’S MONUMENT.-R^ot another capital in Europe save Athens, which it somewhat resembles, compares with Edinburgh in situation, and the Scotch have made the place well worthy of R fine position. On one side is Carlton Hill, rising hundred feetfabove the town, and opposite this about a mile away is the old historic Castle. Between them extends the beautiful avenue called Princes’ Street, ;bordRcl;by handsome buildings, Rrks and monuments. Among the many attractive sights in mis old Scottish city, and rising in the center of the el^^H; n^^^Hl of Sir WalR Scott, who was born in Edinburgh