Gondola days

WELL-WORN ROADS OF SPAIN, HOLLAND, AND ITALY, traveled by a Painter in search of the Picturesque. With 16 full-page phototype reproductions of water-color drawings, and text by...

At one end, fronting the church, stand the three great flag-poles, the same you saw at the landing, socketed in bronze, exquisitely modeled and chased, bearing the banners of Ca...

Then there are a menagerie, or rather some wire-fenced paddocks filled with kangaroos and rabbits, and an aviary of birds, and a big casino where the band plays, and where for h...

YOU think, perhaps, there are no gardens in Venice; that it is all a sweep of palace front and shimmering sea; that save for the oleanders bursting into bloom near the Iron Brid...

“Little by little, the story came out. It appeared that immediately after the ball she had moved to this château, a part of her own estates, which had been quietly fitted up and...

But there is still another and a larger fishing trade, a trade not exactly Venetian, although Venice is its best market. To this belong the fishermen of Chioggia and the islands...

There is, I am convinced, no real, permanent, steady proprietor in any of these caffès--none that one ever sees. There must be, of course, somebody who assumes ownership, and wh...

If you happen to have a _lira_ about you, and own besides a bushel basket, you can exchange the coin for that measure of peaches. Two _lire_ will load your gondola half full of...

“Nothing gives you so clear an idea of the lives these great nobles lived,” said the Professor, “as your touching something they touched, walking through their homes--the homes...

And the people one meets in these twists and turns,--the people who live in the big and little streets,--who eat, sleep, and are merry, and who, in the warm summer days and nigh...

But here,--here by this wondrous city of the sea,--here, where the transcendent goddess of the night spreads her wings, radiant in the light of an August moon, her brow studded...