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society like ordinary people; and I must say I 

 liked what I saw of them, for they never obtruded 

 their opinions or doctrines, and seemed to be far 

 removed from either hypocrisy or sickly methodisra. 



Conservative as the Austrians undoubtedly are 

 politically, in one respect they are conspicuously 

 liberal. Blessed with immense wealth, several of 

 their nobility have private galleries of pictures by 

 the old masters that would shame many a national 

 collection, and these are all thrown open to the 

 public. The most important collections are those 

 of Count de Lamberg, Prince Leichtenstein, Count 

 Harrach, Count Czernin, Count Schonborn Buch- 

 heim, and Herr von Draxter. 



No capital in Europe has so many agreeable 

 places of public resort in the environs as Vienna ; 

 and during the summer months, upon Sundays and 

 ftte days, all are more or less crowded. The prin- 

 cipal are Modling, at the entrance of the Valley of 

 Briihl, where Prince Leichtenstein has a beautiful 

 chateau and pleasure grounds ; Uornbach, the 

 charming park of Prince Schwarzenberg, Penzing, 

 Hiittledorf, Pobling, Sievering, and Heiligenstadt, 



