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many, have, in most cases, a different kind of remin- 

 iscences to record from those who linger about Italy 

 sometimes, it is true, out of pure love of the country, 

 but oftener from sadder motives, in the languor that 

 follows a great calamity, or the acuter misery which 

 precedes one. Even the artist in his wanderings is 

 distinct from the tourist so that there is some excuse 

 for the readiness with which everybody who has 

 crossed the Alps records his experiences. Life is 

 more leisurely over that great boundary-line, if not 

 among the awakened Italians, at least among the 

 English visitors, to whom, even at the utmost stretch 

 of speed, it is impossible to do the country of art in 

 a few weeks. The difference, indeed, between the 

 tranquil incidents of Italian journeys, and the breath- 

 less bustle into which an astonished traveller drops 

 of a sudden who comes over one of the Alpine 

 passes the wrong way, and drops without any pre- 

 paration into Zurich, or Lucerne, or Geneva, is too 

 remarkable not to strike the most casual observer. 

 The crowd which rushed out of London yesterday, 

 and has to rush back again to-morrow, is constantly 

 thwarting its own endeavours to see everything by 

 its universal rush and bustle ; and even more en- 

 lightened and intelligent travellers so far put them- 

 selves at a disadvantage that their thoughts and 

 minds are still wholly occupied with their own 

 country, and its news and ways, while they snatch 

 a hurried glimpse of another especially as that other 



