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There they will
first step on European shore, in the land of Shakespeare, as the educated call
it; in the land of politics, the land of machines, as it is called by others.
Here they stay a whole day. That is all the time the busy race can devote to the
whole of England and Scotland. Then the journey is continued through the tunnel
under the English Channel, to France, the land of Charlemagne and Napoleon.
Moliere is named, the learned men talk of the classic school of remote
antiquity.
There is rejoicing and shouting for the names of heroes,
poets, and men of science, whom our time does not know, but who will be born
after our time in Paris, the centre of Europe, and elsewhere. The air steamboat
flies over the country whence Columbus went forth, where Cortez was born, and
where Calderon sang dramas in sounding verse. Beautiful black-eyed women live
still in the blooming valleys, and the oldest songs speak of the Cid and the
Alhambra. Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where once lay old,
everlasting Rome.
Then through the air, over the sea, to Italy, where
once lay old, everlasting Rome. It has vanished! The Campagna lies desert. A
single ruined wall is shown as the remains of St. Peter's, but there is a doubt
if this ruin be genuine. Next to Greece, to sleep a night in the grand hotel at
the top of Mount Olympus, to say that they have been there; and the journey is
continued to the Bosphorus, to rest there a few hours, and see the place where
Byzantium lay; and where the legend tells that the harem stood in the time of
the Turks, poor fishermen are now spreading their nets.
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