One Year Abroad

Then the mountain tramps we had, climbing high for a view, and then glorying in it! A little maid was once our guide, who chattered to us prettily all the way, and told us the c...

The hunters sang with special delight one song which frequently asserted that "_Auf der Alm_ there is no sin." This impressed us as a delightful idea, though somewhat at varianc...

And the last grain of romance vanishes when we hear that shrewd guides bring the flowers down from their own heights, and set them in the path of enthusiastic but not high-climb...

This whole building is full of interest from its age and historical associations. It was built in the fifteenth century, has been in the hands of comedians, of a sisterhood; Mar...

In the little octagonal house up there lives a prosperous family, a man, his wife, and ten children. The woman, a fresh, buxom, brown-eyed goodwife, told us she descended to the...

After the ceremonies at Duesseldorf came the solemn reception of the remains here. Early in the evening the streets were thronged with an immense but quiet, patiently waiting cr...

We heard him later ourselves at two in the morning at an inn on the road where we were staying, and in fact were told by the landlord that he was expected; were shown the sacred...

A Garden by the water's edge,--a garden where clematis and woodbine and grape-vines run all over their trellises and up the graceful young locust-trees and down over the stone-w...

Many women walk through the streets carrying great baskets on their heads. This custom seems to some travellers an evil. The women look too much, they say, like beasts of burden...

We have been having in Stuttgart what an intensely loyal newspaper-pen calls "Kaiser days." That is, days in which the city has been glorified by the imperial presence. We have...

The people in the hotels are often a source of amusement to us. We consider them fair game, when they are very comical, because--who knows?--perhaps we also are amusing to them....

The romantic story of Francisca von Hohenheim and many interesting facts in Schiller's early life, during his attendance at the Carlsschule, a famous military academy, institute...

After the line of carriages drove off, the cavalcade formed again, led this time by the crown prince and the Grand Duke of Baden; and they galloped over the course and out of th...

This is, then, what Hohenheim now is,--a place where you go and look about a little, walk through large empty halls and long corridors affording glimpses of the simple quarters...

"Iron is essentially the same everywhere and always, but the sulphate of iron is never the same as the carbonate of iron. Truth is invariable, but the Smithate of truth must alw...

There was during the festivities, later, a bit of mistletoe over the door, which, in an indirect, roundabout way, through our ancestral England, was also meant as a tribute to A...