Chapter X

The Righi.--Guides and Alpenstocks.--Climbing the Alps.--
Night on the Mountain Top.--The Yodlyn.--Lucerne.--
Wonderful Organ Playing.--A Sail on Lake Lucerne.--Scene
of Tell's Archery.--The St. Gothard Pass.--The Devil's
Bridge.--The Brunig Pass.--A Valley of Beauty.--Interlaken.
--Staubbach Waterfall.--Glaciers and Avalanches.--An
Illuminated Waterfall.--Berne.--The Freiburg Organ.--Lake
Leman.--The Prison of Chillon.--Geneva.--Swiss Washerwomen.
--Glaciers by Moonlight.--Sunrise on Mont Blanc.--Valley of
Chamouny.--View from Flegère.--Climbing again.--Crossing
the Sea of Ice.--The Mauvais Pass.--Under a Glacier.--The
Tête Noir Pass.--Italian Post Drivers.--The Rhone Valley.
--Simplon Pass.--Gorge of Gondo.--Fressinone Waterfall.--
Domo d'Ossola.--An Italian Inn.--Lake Maggiore.--Milan
Cathedral.--A Wonderful Statue.--Death and Dross.--The La
Scala Theatre.--Lake Como.--Italian Monks.--Madesimo
Waterfall. 376-450

CHAPTER XI.

The Splügen Pass.--The Via Main.--Tamina Gorge.--Falls of
Schaffhausen.--Munich.--Galleries of Paintings.--Grecian
Sculpture restored.--A Bronze Giant.--Hall of the Colossi.
--The Palace.--Basilica of St. Boniface.--Salzburg.--
Aquarial Wonders.--Visiting Lilliput.--Vienna.--Judging by
Appearances.--Royal Regalia.--Cabinet of Minerals.--The
Ambras Museum. 450-475

CHAPTER XII.

Superb Mausoleum.--The Strauss Band.--Summer Palace.--
Imperial Gallery.--Vienna Leather Work.--Shops and Prices.
--The Cave of Adelsberg.--Underground Wonders.--Nature's
Imitation of Art. 476-487

CHAPTER XIII.

Venice.--Gondolas and Gondoliers.--Shylock.--The Rialto.--
The Giant's Staircase.--The Lion's Mouth.--Terrible
Dungeons.--Square of St. Mark.--The Bronze Horses.--Church
of St. Mark.--Titian's Monument.--Canova's Monument.--
Cathedrals and Pictures.--Florence.--Art in the Streets.--
The Uffizi Gallery.--Old Masters in Battalions.--Hall of
Niobe.--Cabinet of Gems.--Michael Angelo's House.--The
Duomo.--The Campanile.--Church of Santa Croce.--Michael
Angelo's Statuary.--Florentine Mosaics.--Medicean Chapel.
--Pitti Palace.--Halls of the Gods.--The Cascine.--Powers,
the Sculptor. 487-530

CHAPTER XIV.

Tower of Pisa.--The Duomo.--Galileo's Lamp.--The
Baptistery.--Campo Santo.--Over the Apennines.--Genoa.--
Streets of Genoa.--Pallavicini Gardens.--Water Jokes.--
Turin to Susa.--Mt. Cenis Pass.--Paris again.--Down in the
Sewers. 531-548

CHAPTER XV.

Sic transit.--English Rudeness.--Wonders of London.--
Looking towards Home.--Last Purchases.--English
Conservatism.--Reunion of Tourists.--All aboard.--Home
again. 549-558

OVER THE OCEAN.