Category: Travel Writing
Y the middle of the month of July, the Art season in London was on the wane, and by the end of August the great body of English artists had dispersed, some, the soundest workers perhaps, to the neighbourhood of Welsh mountains and English homesteads, to--'The silence of thatch...
T would be passing over the most-enjoyable part of our life abroad, if we omitted all mention of those delightful days, spent on the hill-sides of Mustapha, on the heights of th...
7. CHAPTER VII. BLIDAH--MEDEAH--THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS.HE Atlas Mountains, of which we have spoken so often, are almost separated from the hills of the Sahel on which the town of Algiers is built, by the broad plain of the Mitidja,...
8. CHAPTER VIII. KAB YLIA--THE FORT NAPOLÉON.T was almost impossible to take up a newspaper in Algiers, or to converse for five minutes in a café, or at the club, without the 'question Kabyle' cropping up in some paragraph...
2. CHAPTER II. ALGIERS.HE first view of the town of Algiers, with its pretty clusters of white houses set in bright green hills, or as the French express it, 'like a diamond set in emeralds,' the rang...
3. CHAPTER III. THE MOORISH QUARTER--OUR STUDIO.E said, in the last chapter, that in Algiers there was very little going on for the visitor or idler; but if the traveller have anything of the artist in him, he will be delight...
4. CHAPTER IV. 'MODELS.ROM the roof-tops of our own and the neighbouring houses we have altogether many opportunities of sketching, and making studies from life. * By degrees, by fits and starts, and...
5. CHAPTER V. OUR 'LIFE SCHOOLF the various studies to be made in Algiers, there are none at the same time so quaint and characteristic, as the Moors in their own homes, seated at their own doors or benches...
1. CHAPTER I. ON THE WING.Y the middle of the month of July, the Art season in London was on the wane, and by the end of August the great body of English artists had dispersed, some, the soundest workers...
9. CHAPTER IX. 'WINTER SWALLOWS.'_Oh que l'hirondelle est bien la type de la vraie sagesse, elle qui a su effacer de son existence, ces longs hivers qui glacent et engourdissent! Dès que le soleil commence à d...
10. CHAPTER X. CONCLUSION.F the foregoing sketches have seemed to some of our readers, a thought too slight and discursive, and to be wanting in detail; it is because, perhaps, they have reflected a litt...