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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 279
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• • Impressions Of Rome, Herbert Florenc...
colored marbles , and delicately worked carving , is the perfect embodiment throug of its sp h irit the . streets But—is of it Eome severe , and to say you ?— return it is all actuall of the y earth oppressed , earthly with . Drive the not satisfied
throug with questions or endeavor anything h the which streets to , past have settle , of present been Florence for yourself suggested , or future and _^ what , to but do your the you not world mind must think . ' s think or history "Y " wonder ou ; are you means must you . simp settle Drive ly ,
f accept orm of earth calm and dignified its enjoyments artistic , beauty , and you that . If in mankind the most , as temptin they are g ; and , were delusive to be
immortal upon , earth , Florence , might be ( so far as satisfaction was possible ) a thoroug For althoug hly satisf h thus ying earthl resting- it place is essentiall . different from Paris . There is
" y y b nothing y gaiety in is the meant least bri frivolous ghtness about without it ; depth and it . can There scar is c , el indeed y be , called some gay disp — lay if
in the of front fashion other of talking in the the royal Cascine to dairies their , where acquaintances ; and carri where ages gentlemen all yet meet this in is loungers but one a central small go from open element one space to in
been Florentine change , life— since very the little Grand of it is Duke seen ' s in ; departure the streets Som . No e friends doubt there of mine has
a . , have living been in Florence merel , fashionable told me they and coul thi d perceive s to it , but Florence must constitute could never a many persons
great atmosp attraction here , if you , y since cannot nothing throw ; is yourself more wearisome into it . 1 than What a there fashionable is below social this
cannot external be prosperous supposed to surface know , . a That stranger it is , spending essentially onl a respectable y three weeks movemen there t , . which has revolutionized Florence is evident , if it were only from the order
and decorum of the streets . " While Florence may express the indolent enjoyment of Italian
lifeTurin is described as being the " very heart , containing the , life-blood of Italy . "
The institutions of the city express the national feeling . Even the Museum is no repository of curiosities , but of modern treasures .
The account of a visit to the Parliament is interesting . halls as " late We and as went staircases we do between , ) and of the three had strange some and four difficulty old , ( for Palace Italians in finding which do is not our now hold way the their throug Chamber _sittings h the of
Deputies The Chamber , —but is we handsome did at last semicircul reach the ar gallery the , benches of the covered Corps Dip with lomati crimson que . ;—;
• velvetthe desks in front green . There were about two hundred members present , : grave , earnest , gentlemanly-looking men , with papers and writing d
their materials arms , before were them movin ; g attendants about amongst in black them , with continuall tricolored y . The scarves Ministers roun sat at lon _ table fronting the semicirclethe President ( Speakerwe
a ; , , President should call was him Ratazzi , ) with the who clerks was , Prime were on Minister a raised when dai ' s Cavour behind retired them . after The
the us told Peace us of the Villafranca names of , . some An Italian others : gentleman General Fanti who was one in of the the gallery Ministers with ,
liberal who took Farini Perugia Lanza after the Poerio entrance —the _Neapolitan of the Papal who troops , was ; so Cresp many i , an years ultra in
exile— ; a pale , worn , -looking , man , with a face full of thought and quietness ; and the Marquis de Cavour , the Count ' s brother discussion , who sat alone , reading it
impossible a paper , and to left follow the , excep House t before once , when we did the . Deputy The who spoke going was on near , was us , so that we could catch his words . We learnt afterwards that it was an likelto understand
important easily . It one referred , thoug to h the not fun what ding we and should uniting have of the been debts of y all the States .
Notices Of Books. 279
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 279
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1862, page 279, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061862/page/63/
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