NEWS OF SPRING 



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I HAVE followed it, these past few days, 

 on the banks of the Borigo, from the 

 torrent of Carei to the Val de Gorbio ; in 

 those little rustic towns, Ventimiglia, 

 Tende, Sospello; in those curious vil- 

 lages, perched upon rocks, Sant' Ag- 

 nese, Castellar, Castillon; in that ador- 

 able and already quite Italian country 

 which surrounds Mentone. You go 

 through a few streets quickened with 

 the cosmopolitan and somewhat hateful 

 life of the Riviera, you leave behind you 

 the band-stand, with its everlasting 

 town music, around which gather the 

 consumptive rank and fashion of Men- 

 tone, and behold, at two steps from the 

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