At Home and Abroad; Or, Things and Thoughts in America and Europe

Late at night we reached this island of Mackinaw, so famous for its beauty, and to which I proposed a visit of some length. It was the last week in August, at which, time a larg...

SCENE, STEAMBOAT.--_About to leave Buffalo.--Baggage coming on board.--Passengers bustling for their berths.--Little boys persecuting everybody with their newspapers and pamphle...

It was very pleasant coming up. These large and elegant boats are so well arranged that every excursion may be a party of pleasure. There are many fair shows to see on the lake...

It seems proper that some account of the sad close of Madame Ossoli's earthly journeyings should be embodied in this volume recording her travels. But a brother's hand trembles...

This beautiful stream flows full and wide over a bed of rocks, traversing a distance of near two hundred miles, to reach the Mississippi. Great part of the country along its ban...

AFFAIRS IN ITALY.--THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF MILAN.--ADDRESS TO THE GERMAN NATION.--BROTHERHOOD, AND THE INDEPENDENCE OF ITALY.--THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT TO THE NATIONS SU...

You do not deceive yourself surely about religion, in so far as that there is a deep meaning in those pangs of our fate which, if we live by faith, will become our most precious...

THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.--CHARLES ALBERT A TRAITOR.--FALL OF GIOBERTI.--MAZZINI.--HIS CHARACTER.--HIS ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.--HIS ORATORY.--AMERICAN ARTISTS.--BROWN, TERRY, AND FREEM...

THE POPE'S RECEPTION OF THE NEW OFFICERS.--THEY KISS HIS FOOT.--VESPERS AT THE GESÙ.--A POOR YOUTH IN ROME SEEKING A PATRON.--RUMORS OF DISTURBANCES.--THEIR CAUSE.--REPRESENTATI...

Nine days I passed alone at Mackinaw, except for occasional visits from kind and agreeable residents at the fort, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Mr. A., long engaged in the fur-trade, is g...

SIEGE OF ROME.--HEAT.--NIGHT ATTACKS.--THE BOMBARDMENT.--THE NIGHT BREACH.--DEFECTION.--ENTRY OF THE FRENCH.--SLAUGHTER OF THE ROMANS.--THE HOSPITALS.--DESTRUCTION BY BOMBS.--CE...

THE CLIMATE OF ITALY.--REVIEW OF FIRST IMPRESSIONS.--ROME IN ITS VARIOUS ASPECTS.--THE POPE.--CEMETERY OF SANTO SPIRITO.--CEREMONIES AT THE CHAPELS.--THE WOMEN OF ITALY.--FESTIV...

THE FRENCH TREASON AT ROME.--OUDINOT.--LESSEPS.--LETTER OF THE TRIUMVIRATE.--REPLY OF LESSEPS.--COURSE OF OUDINOT.--THE WOUNDED ITALIANS.--GARIBALDI.--ITALIAN YOUNG MEN.--MILITA...

MORE OF LONDON.--THE MODEL PRISON AT PENTONVILLE.--BATHING ESTABLISHMENT FOR THE POOR.--ALSO ONE FOR WASHING CLOTHES.--THE CRÈCHES OF PARIS, FOR POOR PEOPLE'S CHILDREN.--OLD DRU...

I was obliged to stop writing at Edinburgh before the better half of my tale was told, and must now begin there again, to speak of an excursion into the Highlands, which occupie...

THE CEREMONIES SUCCEEDING EPIPHANY.--THE DEATH OF TORLONIA, AND ITS PREDISPOSING CAUSES.--FUNERAL HONORS.--A STRIKING CONTRAST IN THE DECEASE OF THE CARDINAL PRINCE MASSIMO.--TH...

WRITING AT NIGHT.--LONDON.--NATIONAL GALLERY.--MURILLO.--THE FLOWER GIRL.--NURSERY-MAIDS AND WORKING-MEN.--HAMPTON COURT.--ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS.--KING OF ANIMALS.--ENGLISH PIETY.-...

THOUGHTS OF THE ITALIAN RACE, THE SEASONS, AND ROME.--CHANGES.--THE DEATH OF THE MINISTER ROSSI.--THE CHURCH OF SAN LUIGI DEL FRANCESI.--ST. CECILIA AND THE DOMENICHINO CHAPEL.-...

THE STRUGGLE IN ROME.--POSITION OF THE FRENCH.--THE AUSTRIANS.--FEELING OF THE ROMAN PEOPLE.--THE FRENCH TROOPS.--EFFECTS OF WAR.--HOSPITALS.--THE PRINCESS BELGIOIOSO.--POSITION...

ADIEU TO PARIS.--ITS SCENES.--THE PROCESSION OF THE FAT OX.--DESTITUTION OF THE POORER CLASSES.--NEED OF A REFORM.--THE DOCTRINES OF FOURIER MAKING PROGRESS.--REVIEW OF FOURIER'...

Since you are to share with me such foot-notes as may be made on the pages of my life during this summer's wanderings, I should not be quite silent as to this magnificent prolog...

ROME.--THE CARNIVAL: THE MOCCOLETTI.--THE ROMAN CHARACTER.--THE POPE'S FLIGHT.--THE ASSEMBLY.--THE PEOPLE.--THE POPE'S MISTAKE.--HIS MANIFESTO: ITS TONE AND EFFECT.--DESTRUCTION...

FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF ROME IN THE SPRING.--THE POPE.--ROME AS A CAPITAL.--TUSCANY.--THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS THERE JUST ESTABLISHED.--THE ENLIGHTENED MINDS AND AVAILABLE INSTRUCT...

REVIEW OF THE COURSE OF PIUS IX.--MAMIANI.--THE PEOPLE'S DISAPPOINTED HOPES.--THE MONUMENTS IN MILAN, NAPLES, ETC.--THE KING OF NAPLES AND HIS TROOPS.--CALAMITIES OF THE WAR.--T...

ITALY.--MISFORTUNE OF TRAVELLERS.--ENGLISH TRAVELLERS.-- COCKNEYISM.--MACDONALD THE SCULPTOR.--BRITISH ARISTOCRACY.-- TENERANI.--WOLFF'S DIANA AND SEASONS.--GOTT.--CRAWFORD.--OV...

It is now two weeks since the first attack of Oudinot, and as yet we hear nothing decisive from Paris. I know not yet what news may have come last night, but by the morning's ma...

GIOBERTI, MAMIANI, AND MAZZINI.--FORMATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY.--THE RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.--A PROCESSION.--PROCLAMATION OF THE REPUBLIC.--RESULTS.--DECREE OF THE ASSEMBL...

ITALY.--FRUITS AND FLOWERS ON THE ROUTE FROM FLORENCE TO ROME.--THE PLAIN OF UMBRIA.--ASSISI.--THE SAINTS.--TUITION IN SCHOOLS.--PIUS IX.--THE ETRURIAN TOMB.--PERUGIA AND ITS ST...

FRANCE AND HER ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE.--THE PICTURES OF HORACE VERNET.--DE LA ROCHE.--LEOPOLD ROBERT.--CONTRAST BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND ENGLISH SCHOOLS OF ART.--THE GENERAL APPRECIA...

MUSIC IN PARIS.--CHOPIN AND THE CHEVALIER NEUKOMM.--ADIEU TO PARIS.--A MIDNIGHT DRIVE IN A DILIGENCE.--LYONS AND ITS WEAVERS.--THEIR MANNER OF LIFE.--A YOUNG WIFE.--THE WEAVERS'...

PASSAGE IN THE CAMBRIA.--LORD AND LADY FALKLAND.--CAPTAIN JUDKINS.--LIVERPOOL.--MANCHESTER.--MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.--"THE DIAL."--PEACE AND WAR.--THE WORKING-MEN OF ENGLAND.--THE...

REFLECTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR.--AMERICANS IN EUROPE.--FRANCE, ENGLAND, POLAND, ITALY, RUSSIA, AUSTRIA,--THEIR POLICY.--EUROPE TOILS AND STRUGGLES.--ALL THINGS BODE A NEW OUTBREAK...

The beautiful and stately aspect of this city has been the theme of admiration so general that I can only echo it. We have seen it to the greatest advantage both from Calton Hil...

I forgot to mention, in writing of Chester, an object which gave me pleasure. I mentioned, that the wall which enclosed the old town was two miles in circumference; far beyond t...

RECOLLECTIONS OF LONDON.--THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN.--LONDON CLIMATE.--OUT OF SEASON.--LUXURY AND MISERY.--A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.--TERRORS OF POVERTY.--JOANNA BAILLIE AND MADAME ROLAN...

UNPLEASANTNESS OF A ROMAN WINTER.--PROGRESS OF EVENTS IN EUROPE, AND THEIR EFFECT UPON ITALY.--THE CARNIVAL.--RAIN INTERRUPTS THE GAYETY.--REJOICINGS FOR THE REVOLUTIONS OF FRAN...

ROME.--BAD WEATHER.--ST. CECILIA.--THE PEOPLE'S PROCESSIONS.--TAKING THE VEIL.--FESTIVITIES.--POLITICAL AGITATION.--NOBLES.--MARIA LOUISA.--GUICCIOLI.--PARMA.--ADDRESS TO THE NE...

INVERARY.--THE ARGYLE FAMILY.--DUMBARTON.--SUNSET ON THE CLYDE.--GLASGOW.--DIRT AND INTELLECT.--STIRLING.--"THE SCOTTISH CHIEFS."--STIRLING CASTLE.--THE TOURNAMENT GROUND.--EDIN...

REVIEW OF PAST AND PRESENT.--THE MERITS OF ITALIAN LITERATURE.--MANZONI.--ITALIAN DIALECTS.--MILAN, THE MILANESE, AND THE SIMPLICITY OF THEIR LANGUAGE.--THE NORTH OF ITALY, AND...

Chicago had become interesting to me now, that I knew it as the portal to so fair a scene. I had become interested in the land, in the people, and looked sorrowfully on the lake...

NEWCASTLE.--DESCENT INTO A COAL-MINE.--YORK WITH ITS MINSTER.-- SHEFFIELD.--CHATSWORTH.--WARWICK CASTLE.--LEAMINGTON AND STRATFORD.--SHAKESPEARE.--BIRMINGHAM.--GEORGE DAWSON.--J...

I have too long delayed writing up my journal.--Many interesting observations slip from recollection if one waits so many days: yet, while travelling, it is almost impossible to...

Summer days of busy leisure, Long summer days of dear-bought pleasure, You have done your teaching well; Had the scholar means to tell How grew the vine of bitter-sweet, What ma...