LXL Wednesday, Sept. 28. Today we have spent entirely at the Louvre “doing” the paintings. They are beautiful. Of course we saw Murillo’s Immaculate Conception, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Guido Reni’s Ecce Homer, and many by Raphael and Rubens,…
LXXXIX Tuesday, Sept. 27. We went to the Louvre this morning and devoted ourselves to the statuary. The gem of the collection is the Venus of Milo. The most perfect likeness of woman ever made, the other masterpieces are Melpomene,…
LXXXVIII Monday, Sept. 26. We spent this morning shopping. Mamma ordered a wrap and I a dress and sack at Norths. This afternoon we have been to Napoleon’s tomb and the Hotel des Invalides the Soldiers Hospital. The tomb is…
LXXXVII Sunday, Sept. 25. We arrived in Paris this morning at five o’clock. Such a night as we spent last night in a European sleeping car can better be imagined than described. We did not sleep at all, but sat…
LXXXVI Saturday, Sept. 24 We went first this morning to the Castle, the most magnificent ruins in Europe. And it is magnificent and huge—some parts are almost wholly destroyed, but a few are in a fair state of preservation. We…
LXXXIV Friday, Sept. 23. This morning early we took a guide and carriage and started out to “do” Frankfurt. We went first to see the church which first embraced Protestantism in Europe. The inside is very gaudy, and it seemed…
LXXXIII Thursday, Sept. 22 We left Prague at seven o’clock this morning and after a fifteen hour ride reached Frankfurt on the Main. This is the hardest days work we have had since we left home. The road was horribly…
LXXX Tuesday, Sept. 20. Today we have spent on the cars—or rather, this afternoon. This morning we were kept in the hotel by rain. After an horribly hard ride of six hours, we reached Prague at seven o’clock this evening,…
LXXIX Monday, Sept. 19. This morning we drove about the city, and were left at last at the Art Gallery, the second largest in the world, and one of the three most famous. The paintings were all beautiful, especially so…
LXXIX Sunday, Sept. 18. We attended church this morning at the American church, and heard a very good sermon. The church is quite a large one.