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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...UBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...t patient and fruitless angling in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by... ...mestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art could indulge itself—gave an air of youth and gladness. It is true that... ...f its straight avenues. Then you walk about the roof, in a complication of galleries, ter- races, balconies, through the multitude of chimneys and gab... ...ch looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling the base. By the time I reached Cheverny, the clear tw... ...on as descending the Italian side, of the Alps; and to go from New York to Philadelphia is to enter a zone of tropi- cal luxuriance and warmth. Given ... ...e south-lover has an eye for them all. If he perceive them at New York and Philadelphia,—we imagine him boldly as liberated from Boston,—how could he ...

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...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with tho...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a long fleecy nap. He had neither trunk, valise, carpet-bag, nor parcel. No porte...

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...; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fre... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Young Step-Mother; Or A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte ... ...them like slaves. Lucy exclaimed, ‘Why! grandmamma’s Betty is really named Philadelphia.’ Albinia laughed, but was disconcerted by finding that she ha... ...had too much, and could not let herself rest; she had never cultivated the art of being still, and when she was weak, she could not be calm. 89 The Y... ...wrists. It had long been acknowledged that Genevieve was unrivalled in the art of tying bows, and those pink ones were paragons, redolent of all her o... ...ng his obedient pupil-wife through a course of lectures on the continental galleries of art; and his deter- mined singleness of aim prevailed against ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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