A FLORIDA SHRINE. 



ALL pilgrims to Tallahassee visit the Mu- 

 rat place. It is one of , the most conveniently 

 accessible of those " points of interest " with 

 which guide-books so anxiously, and with so 

 much propriety, concern themselves. What 

 a tourist prays for is something to see. If 

 I had ever been a tourist in Boston, no 

 doubt I should before now have surveyed 

 the world from the top of the Bunker Hill 

 monument. In Tallahassee, at all events, I 

 went to the Murat estate. In fact, I went 

 more than once ; but I remember especially 

 my first visit, which had a livelier senti- 

 mental interest than the others because I 

 was then under the agreeable delusion that 

 the Prince himself had lived there. The 

 guide-book told me so, vouchsafing also the 

 information that after building the house he 

 " interested himself actively in local affairs, 

 became a naturalized citizen, and served 

 successively as postmaster, alderman, and 

 mayor " a model immigrant, surely, 



