This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. MILAN--THE AMERICANS--A MAESTRO AND CLASS. In a few hours we had been transported through the misty hills to the railway at Como, and thence to the city of the cathedral. What a splendid railway station that of Milan is, both ontside and inside! I think it perfect--in fact the only grand ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. MILAN--THE AMERICANS--A MAESTRO AND CLASS. In a few hours we had been transported through the misty hills to the railway at Como, and thence to the city of the cathedral. What a splendid railway station that of Milan is, both ontside and inside! I think it perfect--in fact the only grand terminus where beauty seems to have been thought of in construction. It is the Pantheon of railway architecture, and future generations may point to it and its lovely frescoes VOL. I. C as a proof of the supremacy of Italy, even in the nineteenth century. I know no more striking entrance to a city than that to Milan, under the new passage cut through the bastions, along the Via Principe Umberta. The view of the station from the bastions is really splendid. The majestic curves of the roads, and the beauty of the planted slopes between them, and the broad expanse of the green-sward in front of the bright stone, symmetrical structure, is certainly illustrative of what can be done to beautify the express wants of this run and read age. But meanwhile we are a casa and great is the approbation with which the bright aspect of the new hotel is hailed. Its stairs are of the whitest marble, adorned by evergreens. Nevertheless, in winter it mast be a freezing residence. But then the rooms look over the public gardens, the prettiest of northern Italy, and the sun is setting, flooding everything with light. A glance into the reading room discloses shoals of Americans, and also warns us that they are assembled for dinner. My toilet is soon made, but not so that of the Miss Z 's or of Bruton, as they do not arrive till the rest of the assembly have begun to feed. Of course, between the services we commenced our running comments on the faces and toilets...
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