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Four Weeks on the Continent of Europe in the Month of September, 1878.

Dean, ——~, You complain, and justly perhaps, that though you have had several letters from us, you have not received a connected description of our little journey |to the Continent of Europe. So now I shall begin and write as faithful an account of our travels as my memory will admit— where it fails, referring to Bedeker’s ex- cellent guide-books, which are very com- prehensive, and of inestimable value to the tourist.

We left London at 7.40 a.m. Arriving at Dover about ten, the train goes down to the wharf, where the new boat (the Culais Douere) lies ; so we went on board at once, and, having always heard the most dismal stories of the short chopping sea of the Shannel and the agonies of sea-sickness endured on the passage over, we went velow and appropriated the most comfor- table sofas we could find. Our arrange- ments were complete, but, happily, in our case not needed, although some of the Eng- lish people suffered very much—but then they had not been seasoned by a long voy- age over the Atl intic.

Our experience of the English Channel is, that, in roughness, it is not to be compared with the Bay of Fundy. The stewards told us that the motion of the Calais Douvre is much easier than that of the other boats. She is like two boats, sharp at the ends and joined in the middle.

We arrived at Calais about 12 and had sone difficulty in finding a railway carriage with a sufficient number of vacant seats, At last we found one with a placard outside ‘La Dame Seule,” we knew it was for ladies only ; but two strangers, an English gentle- man and lady, were sitting inside, and they kindly assured us that it would be all right. They had been there before, they said, and knew what the French were. So we seated ourselves very comfortably. But, alas ! for the mutability of human hopes. We had not been there many minutes when an old French guard appeared at the door of the carriage, and with more volubility than peliteness, informed the gentlemen that they must clear out. We brushed up our French and tried to make him understand that he must get another carriage ; but he was deaf to all our entreaties. His busi- ness was evidently to turn people out,—not to find places for them. As we left the carriage the _Englishman wuttered some- thing about a ‘‘dame seul” being in hia opinion a ‘‘d-— sell.”

En passant, a word about French and English politeness. No English railway official would turn a traveller out of a com- partment without finding him another place, The Frenchman may take off his hat and bow and bow and scrape, and make great professions of his desire to serve you. The Englishman keeps his het on; bunt quietly goes out of his own way to give the required information.

To return to our subject, we had to walk to the station, about { of a mile, soon found an empty compartment, and had the satis- faction of seeing a number of gentlemen turned ont of the ‘‘ Dame Seule.”

We arrived at the Gare du Nord in Paris, at 6.20 p. m., had our baggage ex- amined, and then took a voiture to the Hotel de Lille and D’Albion, Rue 8t. Honore. Itis a very comfortable house. The waiters all speak Englishand are oblig- ing. The rooms are well furnished, clean and nice, the meals well served, and, alto- gether, itis one of the most satisfactory hotels that we visited on the continent. We paid 20 franes each per day, which included lights, service, rooms, breakfast, lunch and dinner. A franc is worth 10d., sterling.

Return tickets, first-class, from Victoria Station, London, to the Gare du Nord, in Paris, £3 each.

Our first day in Paris. we spent at the Champ de Mars. The Exhibition is won- derful when you reflect that a year ago the site was covered with rubbish and litter. Now it contains an Exhibition of great ex- cellence and value. Ina little sketch like this you do not expect to read page after page on the ‘‘ Exposition.” It would be tiresome to all parties, and there has been so much published on the subject that it is not neces- sary. So | will content myself and, I trust, you alsu, by mentioning just a few things. {t takes many visits t> gain even a super- ficial idea of the numerous works of art and excellence contained there.

In the Prince of Wales collection a rich treat is presented to all who are interested in articles of East India workmanship.» The splendid crown of Oude, Jeypore marbles and enamels, a gorgeous palanquin, an ivory bedstead, a native writing case shaped like a gondola, a suit of armor made of the horny scales of the armadillo, ornamented with gold and precious stones.

In the French department are beautiful flowers and fruits, so natural that we could scarcely be persuaded that they were not natural; some large vases of lilacs particu- larly took our fancy. The French boots and slippers were very elegant, the dresses models of the richest and latest mode, the milinery defies description. One modiste values a bonnet which she exhibits at 2,800 francs; another one is valued at 2,000 francs—not a yery modest price for a bon net. They were not very wonderful to behold We should have passed them had not a girl handed us a glass to inspe-t them with. The Canadian trophy is very showy, and the whole department is very

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, cre Among many other excellent things, we noticed some very handsome saddles and harness.

Among the statuary is the recumbent | figure of a beautiful woman. Beside her ‘stands a lovely little child. He is in the ‘act of pulling the cover off her face. The surprise and awe in his face are wonderful. 'He sees that his mother is not asleep. Some other great and terrible change has taken place, and he is too young to know that it is death.

The Italian department is, of course, conspicuous for its beautiful statuary. The ‘* Dirty Boy” is always surrounded by a laughing group.

Among the glassware we found mantles and neck-ties of spun glass.

In the machinery halls are work people, making knives, flowers, ribbons, bon-bons, polishing and cutting diamonds, and almost every work you can think of. We found the oyster-beds, and also the models of coal mines and the sewers of Paris very inter- esting. Among the railway carriages we saw several like ordinary carriages for horses, but supplied with a locomotive in- stead of ahorse. A noveliy is a locomce tive supplied with fect instead of wheels ; it will go up a hill or ona level without a track, using its teet as an animal would.

One of the first places that a visitor in

Paris goes to see is the Louyee It is a very large palace, and contains a valuable collec- tion of works of art, which are open to the public, free, every day, excepting Monday. The Venus de Milo is considered the gem of the fine collection of statuary exhibited. There is great dignity and beauty in the form, while the pure, noble expression of the countenance is so lovely, that even a novice in such things cannot fail to be im- pressed with its beauty. The picture gallery of the Louvre con- tains more than 2000 works by the best masters ; in the Salon Carre the very finest of the pictures are to be found.

Adjoining the Louvre is the Tuileries, hegan by Catherine de Medicis, and after several alterations completed by Napoleon Ill: In May, 1871, the Communists set fire to this palace, so rich in_historicai as- sociations, and now only the skeleton of the building remains standing.

It was from this palace that Louis XVI fled in the revolution of 1789. The faith- ful Swiss guards were all but victorious, when an order came from Louis to stop firing. The mob, finding no resistance, re- newed the attack with increased violence and rushing in shot the Swiss soldiers in the garden. Nearthe garden ofthe Tuileries isthe Place de la Concorde. It was here that, during the ‘‘ Reign of Terror,” 1793, the Guillotine did its sanguinary work. Lonis the 16th was the first victim, Charlotte Corday, Brissot, Marie Antoinette, Philippe Egalite, Madame Elizabeth, and upwards of 2,800 persons perished here between the 21st of Jan., 1793, and 3rd May. 1795. It was at one time proposed that a fountain should be erected on the spot where the scaffold of Louis XVI stood, but Chatean- briand opposed it, saying that ‘‘ all the water in the world would not suffice to re- move the blood stains which sullied the Place.”

In the centre of the Place de la Concorde rises the stately obelisk of Luxor, present- ed by Mahomet Ali, Viceroy of Egypt, te the French Government. The monolith is 76 fect long, six feet higherthan Cleopatra s Needle in London. Te the north and south of th® obelisk are fine fountains, and jround it ¢tatues representing the eight chief towns of France, Lyens, Marseilles, Bordeaug, Nantes, Rouen, Brest, Lille and Strasbourg Strasbourg is pathetically dee- orated with funeral wreaths, in memory of her recent disgrace.

It is time that I brought this letter te a close, so with.

Yours, &>-.,

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The Princess Louise, Her Dog, Her Cane, and Her Morning Walks.

(Ottawa Letter.)

Uer Royal Highness is setting one good example to the ladies of the Dominion which it will be well for their health if they imitate. She is an early riser, and has been indulging in several long ‘* constitu- tionals” before breakfast, of five or six miles. She is generally attended by one cr more of her suite, and walks with that ease and grace which can only be acquired by habitual exercise in the open air. She dresses with great simplicity, but appears rather afraid of the cold, as she ‘‘ muffles up” a great deal, and thereby disap- points the curiosity of many who would like to get ‘‘a good square look ” at her. In these walks she is accom panied by a splendid Coolie dog, a prese ent from her mother, who bears around his neck a very common-looking leather coller with a brass plate, on which is engraved ¢ “I belong to H. R. H. the Princess Louise, Kensington Palace.” The dog is a magnificent specimen of his breed, and the Princess is said to be exceedingly fond of him, partly on account of his donor ard partly because at the fire at Inverary Castie it was the barking of ‘‘ Rover’ which awake ened her and saved her, perhaps, from a horrible death. Every time that Her Roy:t Elighness has appeared as a pedestrian she has carried a sinall, light cane—apparently a Malacca, but lL have not had an oppor- tunity of examining it, either in my hand or over my back, and cannot be very accure ate; and this has given rise to the fashion of carrying canes now being adopted by ladies here,

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