Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PARIS. ENTRY. The entrance into London by the Thames—The entrance into Para by the Champs Elysees—Passing by the caserne, intermingled with cafes ana salons literaires—The Invalides; the Tuilenes; the Chamber of Deputies—The Rne de Rivoli—The universal movement of pleasure—Paris not the climate of Paris—View of an autumnal evening from the Ruedela Pais—Proverb respecting the Boulevards. It is by the Thames that the stranger should enter London .... the broad breast of the great river, black swith the huge masses that float upon its crowded waters —the tall fabrics, gaunt and drear, that line its melan- choly shores—the thick gloom through which you dimly catch the shadowy outline of these gigantic forms—the marvellous quiet with which you glide by the dark phantoms of her power into the mart of nations—the sadness, the silence, the vastness, the obscurity of all things around—prepare you for a grave and solemn magnificence: full upon your soul is shadowed the sombre character of " the golden city;" deep into your thoughts is breathed the genius of the great and gloomy people, whose gloom and whose greatness are, perchance, alike owing to the restless workings of a stern imagination. Behold St. Katherine's Docks, and Walker's Soap Manufactory! and " Hardy's Shades !" Lo! there is the strength, the industry, and the pleasure—the pleasure of the enterprising, the money- making, the dark-spirited people of England. " Hardy's Shades I"—singular appellation for the spot dedicated to festivity! Such is the entrance into London by the Thames. Let us change the scene, reader!—you are at Paris, To enter Paris with advantage, you should enter it by the Champs Elysées : visiting for the first time the capital of a military nation, you should pass .under the arch built to commem...