Young Americans Abroad; or, Vacation in Europe: travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland. With illustrations

Introduction

. One evening last winter a few private pupiis were sitting in the study of their instructor, when he stated his intention to pass the spring vacation in Europe, and his wish to have two or three of his young friends as his travelling companions. An earnest and joyous desire was expressed by each lad to enjoy the gratification, and in the course of a short period the arrange ments were made which afforded him the pleas ure to assure three boys that they should ac company him. The ages of the young travellers were twelve, fourteen, and sixteen. Their attention was immediately directed to a course of

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. 4 reading adapted to prepare them for the benefi cial use of the proposed tour; and during its progress each boy kept a journal, which was useful as a reference in the correspondence kept up with friends and families at home. A com panion in study, left behind, and prevented by duty from joining the party, wished to have con stant advices of the movements of his friends ; and the letters of the young travellers to a lad of sixteen are, at the advice of many friends, now submitted to the perusal of those at that age. No similar work is known to the authors of these letters ; and at the forthcoming gift season it is hoped that the young of our country may be amused and gratified by these reminiscences of other lands J. o. CHOULES- Newport, R. I., TO GEORGE SUMNER, ESQ., AS A SLIGHT tribute of gratitude FOR HIS KIND ATTENTIONS IN PARIS.

AND I N* ADMIRATION OF TALLNTS DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF $i n it nin, THESE LETTERS ARE RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, BY HIS OBLIGED FRIENDS, THE AUTHORS. LiST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. I FRONTISPIECE — CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. GUDULE, BRUSSELS. n ICEBERGS SEEN FROM STEAMSHIP "ARCTIC," APRIL 6, 1851, 84 IU. PORTRAIT OF THOMAS CHATTERTON, . 58 IV. PORTRAIT OF ROBERT SOUTHEY, . . 61 V. PORTRAIT OF SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, C8 VI. VIEW OF ST. PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, LONDON, 148 VII. A FULI^LENGTH PORTRAIT OF DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON 150 Vin, VIEW OF THE POET'S CORNEB, WESTMIN STER ABBEY, . . . . 15S IX. VIEW OF THE COLONNE DE JUILLET, . . 190 X. VENTAGE OF THE K.HINE, . . 275 XI. VIEW OF A SWISS COTTAGE, . . 305 XII NAPOLEON'S SARCOPHAGUS, ... CONTENTS. PA OB Introductfo 3

Birmingham. — Arrival in London. — Strand. — Temple Bar. — Fleet Street — London Exchange. — London Coffee House — Omnibuses. 30

Letter V

United States Minister in London. — His kind Attentions. — Crystal Palace — London of other Days. — Monument — The Bridges VI. Villages. — Camberwell. — Accidents and Murders in England as common as in America Greenwich Fair. — Gypsies 48

Exhibition. — Season Tickets. — Wet Weather. — One May fine. — City Streets. — Throng around Palace. — Arrival of the Queen.— Opening Scenes. — Procession, <S_c gj

Letter XVI

Fine Equipages. — Appearance of the Palace. — Walk through the Exhibition — American Contributions Greek Slave, &c — Mediæval Court. — Kohinoor Glass Window. — Austrian Furniture.— Amazon of Kiss. — Crusaders. — Galleries. — Transept — Glass Fountain. — Sculpture. — Veiled Vesta. — Machinery. — Models. — Model of Liverpool — Plate Glass Taunton Cabinet. — Steam Power, __c 104

Letter XVII

Royal Polytechnic Institution Lectures. — Egyptian Hall. — Panorama of Overland Route to California. — Exeter Hall Sermons. — Wyld's great Globe. —Zoological Gardens. — Christ's Church Hospital; its Boys Winusoi Castle ; its History. — Interior of the Palace. — Pictures. — Waterloo Chan.ber. — St. George's Chapel.— Royal Tombs. — Edward IV. — Henry VIII. — Charles I., Discovery of his Body in 1813, Account of the Appearance, &c. — Terraces of the Castle. — Eton College. — Datchett. — Great Park. — Long Walk. — Celebrated Trees. — Virginia Water. — Cumberland Lodge. — Frogmore 123

Letter XIX

Sir John Soane's Museum, House, Antiquities, Pictures Hogarth's " Rake's Progress," and the " Election." — Wonderful Economy of Room, &c. — Greenwich ; Hospital, Chapel, Paintings, and Statuary. — Queen's Stables; Horses, Harness Room, State Carriage. — Soyer's Symposium; Description of its Rooms. — Dinner there 139

Letter XX

The Temple Church and its historical Associations. — Steamboat on Thames. — View of St. Paul's from River SL Paul's Cathedral ; its Dome. — Statues: Johnson, Howard, Reynolds, Heber, West, Nelson. — Ascent ofthe Dome and Cross. — View of London 145

Gardens and Promenades. — Gayety. — Flowers. — Wrong Dmwin^- room. — Notre Dame. — Interior. — Sacristy. — Robes and Relics. — Hotel de Ville. — Louvre shut. — Paris by Moonlight. 173

Letter XXVI

Palais Royal. — Garden. — Gay Scene. — Passage d'Orleans. —House opposite to which Henry IV. was assassinated by Ravaillac — Molidre. — Marat and Charlotte Corday. — Palace of the Luxembourg. — Paintings. — Gardens. — Statuary. — Chapel 179

Letter XXVII

Hotel de Cluny ; History, Associations, Interior, wonderful Contents. — Julian's Palace of the Baths. — Mr. George Sumner. — Church of St Sulpice. — Statuary. — Ecclesiastical Fountain. — Bibliotheque St Genevieve. — Church of St. Etienne du Mont — History. — Monuments of Racine and Pascal. — Christening an Infant — Church of St Germain des Pres, (oldest in Paris ;) its Restoration going on. — Tombs of Descartes, Mabillon, Montfaticon, -Sec... 184

Letter XXVIII

Jardin des Plantes ; Situation, History. — Cedar of Lebanon and Palm-trees. — Menagerie. — Cuvier. — Museum of Comparative An at- CONTENTS. omy, -fee. — Pans owes much to Henry IV., Louis XIV., Napoleon, and Louis Philippe. — Pont Neuf. — St Bartholomew's Massacre.— Bastile. — Column - 192

Excursion to Waterloo. — Hougomont. — Relics. — Belgian Mound and Lion. — Ivy from Waterloo for Mr. J. P. Hall. — Church. — King Leopold 217

Letter XXXIV

Laeken. — Vilvorde. — Mechlin, or Malines. — Antwerp; History. — Place Verte. — Statue of Rubens. — Cathedral of Notre Dame Interior Pulpit. — Pictures by Rubens. — Tower of the Church. Uu tntin Matsys's fine old Houses CONTENTS 13

Letter XXXV

St James's Church. — Tomb of Rubens. — Paintings by Rubens an*1 Jordaens. — Vandyke Mount Calvary.— Monk of La Trappe. - Museum. — Chair of Rubens ; his Pictures. — Other great Works ol Art. — St. Andrew's Church. — Bourse Mr. Vesey, U. S. Consul

Letter XXXVI

Dock Yards at Antwerp. — Steamboat Passage on the Scheldt — Dort — Lost Villages. — Bergen op Zoom. — Van Speyk. — Rotterdam. — Erasmus. — Delft Hague. — Hon. George Folsom ; his Kindness. — Scheveningen — Museum. — Japanese Curiosities. — Historical Curiosities. — Gallery of Pictures. — Rembrandt, Paul Potter, Gerard Dow, &.c. — King's Palace. — Brimenhoff. — De Witt — Bosch. — John Adams's House ?J3

Letter XXXVII

Dunes. — Leyden ; History. — Harlem. — Church of St Bavon ; Organ — Coster. — Flower Gardens. — PaHfce of late King. — Picture Gallery. — Exhibition of Pictures by living Artists. — Amsterdam.. 241

Letter Xxxviii

Mr. J. G. Schwartze. — Stadhuis. — Churches. — Jews. — Picture Gallery. — Dutch School. — Columbus before theCounciL — Artists' Club. 247

Letter XXXIX

Utrecht — Lobith. — Ruhrort — Meet with Americans on Return from Ibo East — Cologne; History. — Cathedral. — Three Kings. — Relics. — St. Peter's Church. — Crucifixion of Peter, by Rubens. — Champagne for America 25] •2 The Rhine. — Bonn. — Drachenfels. — Godesberg. — Rolandseck. — Oberwinter. — Okenfels. — Castle Reineck. — Neuwied. -A Raft — Castle of Sain. — Ehrenbreitstein. — Coblentz 259

Letter XLI

"oMentz. — The Moselle.— Excursion to Stolzenfels. — Curiosities. — Fine View. — Boat up to Mayence. — The Brothers. — Rheinfels. — Lurley Rock. — Seven Sisters. — Pt'alz. — The Rheingau. — Falk enberg. — Rheinstein. — Assmanshausen. — Ehrenfels. — Mause therm. — Bingen. — Geisenheim Johannisberg. — Erbach. — Biberich.— Mayence. —John Guttemberg's Statue — Austrian Troops. — An English Nobleman 2o6

Letter XLII

Frankfort — The Rbmer ; its Portraits of the Emperors. — Mr. Bethinan's Gallery of Statuary. — Ariadne. — Jews' Quarters. — Darmstadt. —The Bergstrasse. — Hadelberg. — Castle Baaen. — Kehl. — Strasburg. 279

Letter XLIII

Cathedral ; its History ; Interior Clock. — St Thomas's Church. — Kleber's Toml. 285

Letter XLIV

Vosges Mountains. — Vineyards — Colmar. — Muhlhausen. — Basle. — Black Forest. — United States Consul, Mr. Burchardt Cathedral — Tomb of Erasmus Chapter House Holbein Gallery. — University. — Library. — MSS. — St. Jacob. — Tea Party CONTENTS. 15

Letter XLV

Mou tiers- Valley. — Sublime Scenery. — Dornach. — Arch. — Roman Antiquities. — Berne. — Mechanical Clock. — Cathedral j Organ, Choir, Bears. — Lausanne 293

Letter XLVI

Mountain Scenery — Hotel Gibbon. — Episcopal Church.— Signal. Hotel de Ville, and its kind Inhabitants. — Cathedral; its History. — Steamboat to Vevay. — Castle of Chillon. — St Martin's Church and the Regicides. — Geneva. — Cathedral. — Museum Calvin's MSS. — D'Aubign6. — Gaussen. — Malan. — Evangelical Association ; its Anniversary. — Count George. — Soiree. — Mr. Delorme. — The Saleve. — Savoy. — Rousseau's Island 297

Letter XLVII

Diligence for Dijon — Fine Scenery. — Dijon ; History. — Railroad to Paris. — Sens. — Cathedral. — Fontainebleau 307

Letter XLVIII

Methodist Chapel. — Madeline. — Pantheon. — Louvre, open. — Statuary and Paintings. — Versailles. — Statuary. — Series of National Paintings. — Portraits of distinguished Men. — Apartments. — Gardens and Fountains. — Grand and Petit Trianon. — Passy. — St Cloud. 310

Letter XLIX

Glass Depot — American Friends. — Good Intentions. — Hospital des Invalides. — Garden of the Tuileries ; its Scenery — Triumphal Arch. — Chapel of St Ferdinand. — National Library. — A Tradesman's Memory 320

Letter L

Calais ; its Recollections. — Rough Passage of the Channel. — Dover. — Mr. Peabody's Entertainment on the Fourth of July described.— Company. — A patriotic Act 33st LI. Entertainment at the Belgian Minister's. — Young Nobility. — A noble Boy. — Craven Chapel. — Slavery. — Exhibition. — Pauper Labor. — Need of a Tariff. 336

Letter LII

Kind Friends at Bristol. — Weston Super Mare. — Museum of Baptist College. — Highbury Chapel Old Houses of Bristol. — Fine Churches 340

Letter LIII

River Avon. — Wye. — Chepstow. — St. Aryan's. — Wynd Cliff. — Glorious Scenery. — Tintern Abbey ; its History. — Ragland Castle ; Appearance. — Marquis of Worcester. — Chepstow Castle. — Henry Marten Defence of the Parliamentary Party. — Severn River. — Old Passage. — Henbury. — Blaize Castle. — Birthday Lines 344

Letter LIV

Leave Bristol. — Berkeley. — Cheltenham. — Birmingham; Manufactories. — Rev. John Angell James. — Mr. Vanwart. — Liverpool. — Chester ; its Antiquity. — Cathedral. — Rows and Pillars. — Englishmen and Americans have much in Common. — Royal Agricultural Exhibition at Windsor 359