Category: Travel Writing
... the Hercynian forest where the boar Roamed and the tribes withstood the swords of Rome There springs a little stream that grown doth pour Through mountains dark, and plains, the herdsman’s home, In swirling volume to the far Euxine Sea.
... the Hercynian forest where the boar Roamed and the tribes withstood the swords of Rome There springs a little stream that grown doth pour Through mountains dark, and plains,...
2. CHAPTER II“... the Walhalla rises, purely white; Temple of Fame for all Germania’s great, A splendid beacon on a leafy height, To hearten men below to dedicate Their service to the servic...
3. CHAPTER IIIFrom the Walhalla we have a glimpse of the kind of country through which for many miles the Danube winds its tortuous length. On the left bank are generally the lower hills of t...
4. CHAPTER IVThough Passau is a Bavarian city, it may fittingly be taken as the starting point of the Austrian Danube, because the frontier is but a little way farther down-stream, and it is...
5. CHAPTER VBelow Linz again we have something of a dramatic change in the scenery of the river. Behind us are the mountains, and for a while they neighbour us fairly closely on the left; b...
6. CHAPTER VIThe Wachau has come to be regarded as one of the show places of the Danube, and very beautiful it is, with its narrow gorge through which the great river finds its way, its wood...
7. CHAPTER VII“There where the Danube broadly sweeps, ’Mid islands willow grown, The City of St. Stephen stands, An Empire’s lovely throne; While o’er the river, on the plain, Far battle echo...
8. CHAPTER VIIIThe scenery of the Danube as we reach the Hungarian frontier has taken on a new beauty, for there is, as it were, a natural boundary to the ancient kingdom where a spur of the L...
9. CHAPTER IXThe immediate approach to Budapest by river is distinctly and remarkably impressive. Ahead on the right are seen the heights of the Gellert Hill and of the nearer one on which t...
10. CHAPTER XThe long stretch of the Danube, where it flows south and then south-easterly from Budapest to Belgrade, contrasts greatly with the more beautiful scenic portion of the river’s c...
11. CHAPTER XIFrom Belgrade, the Danube, though with many bold windings that now and again give us the impression that the river is turning sharp corners, follows a general easterly course un...
12. CHAPTER XIIThe Lower Danube begins, officially, at the romantic rock of Babakáj, but in an account such as this, it seems more fitting to make the division some miles further down, where H...
13. CHAPTER XIIIWhen Rustzuk is reached, the Danube has attained a width of about two and a half miles, the right bank still marked by low hills, the left still flat and marshy. Rustzuk is a la...
14. PART II.--A SELECTION OF SERIES.BRISTOL. By Alfred Harvey, M.B. CANTERBURY. By J. C. Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. CHESTER. By B. C. A. Windle, D.Sc., F.R.S. DUBLIN. By S. A. O. Fitzpatrick. EDINBURGH. By M. G. Williamso...
15. PART III.--A SELECTION OF WORKS OF FICTIONACTÉ. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN PAMPHILE. AMAURY. THE BIRD OF FATE. THE BLACK TULIP. THE CASTLE OF EPPSTEIN. CATHERINE BLUM. CÉCILE. THE CHATELET. THE CHEVALIER D’HARMENTAL. (Do...