CHAPTER XX. 



PENCILLINGS IN AUSTRIA. 



" Some seek diversion in the tented field, 

 And make the sorrows of mankind their sport ; 

 But war's a game that, were their subjects wise, 

 Kings would not play at." 



The "seven dai/s^" campaign. — The Zund-Nadel-Gewehr. — Austrian 

 officers. — Our social system. — The seventh day in England and 

 Sunday in Vienna. —The Prater. — The Haupt-Allee. — ^The 

 imperial family.— Distinguished personages. — The belles of 

 Vienna and their different styles of beauty. — The Stadt Park. 

 — The Volksgarten. — The Augarten. — The environs of Vienna. 

 — Schonbrunn. — Hietzing. — Les agrhnens de la vi'e.— Aus- 

 trian wines. — "Les divertissements de soir." — Baden, and the 

 virtue of the waters. —Laxenbourg. — Austria essentially a 

 sporting nation. — Pacing prospect. 



The dogs of war were unleashed, and fair fields 

 had heen desolated and covered with shattered 

 corpses, when I arrived at Vienna, War had 

 commenced in earnest, battle after battle had 

 been fought, and one event followed another in such 



