Chapter XVII

Monte Carlo: Its Casino and gardens: Leave taking at 185 Mentone of Mr. and Miss Brown: Arrival at Cannes: Meeting Mr. and Mrs. Green: Cannes, its scenery, etc.: Visit to Grasse: Journey to Paris: London: Home, Sweet Home.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

FACING PAGE i. St. Martin’s-le-Grand, London 3 ii. The Marble Arch, London 4 iii. Triumphal Arch, Paris 15 iv. The Bastille Column, Paris 20 v. Christian Martyrs in the Colosseum, 37 Rome vi. The Roman Forum, Rome 39 vii. The Pantheon, Rome 41 viii. Garibaldi’s Monument, Rome 45 ix. St. Peter’s Cathedral, Rome 49 x. The Arch of Titus, Rome 61 xi. Church of the Trinity, Rome 67 xii. Team of Oxen in Tuscany 72 xiii. Dante and Beatrice, Florence 83 xiv. Mrs. Wardle near the Duomo, Florence 81 xv. St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice 109 xvi. Mrs. Wardle and Miss Himmel by the 116 Doges Pillar, Venice xvii. Ditto, in Gondola, Venice 105 xviii. Milan Cathedral, Milan 129 xix. St. Gothard Tunnel 141 xx. William Tell’s Monument 145 xxi. Lion of Lucerne 153 xxii. The Rhine Bridge, Basle 167 xxiii. The Casino, Monte Carlo 185 xiv. Miss Brown at Mentone 183 xxv. Mr. and Mrs. Green, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. 189 Wardle and Mrs. Giles at Cannes

“Go, little book, God send the good passage,
And specially let this be thy prayer:
Unto them all that thee will read or hear,
Where thou art wrong, after their help to call,
Thee to correct in any part or all.”

—CHAUCER.