OUTDOOR LIFE IN LITERATURE. 7 
tial city and entrance therein, after the long and weary 
struggle from the garden gate? . 
The fame of some great cities, of their wealth and 
luxury, has been one of the causes of their downfall. 
This was one of the charms which lured the Barbarians 
toward Rome. Charles Kingsley in his “The Roman 
and the Teuton” has finely represented this influence of 
the city Rome and Italian life— Romani nominis umbra 
—upon the Germanic race, the denizens of the forests 
beyond the Alps: 
“Fancy to yourself a great Troll-garden, such as 
our forefathers dreamed of fifteen hundred years ago; 
—a fairy palace, with a fairy garden; and all around 
the primeval wood. Inside the Trolls dwell, cunning 
and wicked, watching their fairy treasures, working at 
their magic forges, making and making always things 
new and strange; and outside the forest is full of 
children, such children as the world had never seen 
before, but children still; children in frankness and pu- 
rity and affectionateness and tenderness of conscience 
and devout awe of the unseen; and children, too, in 
fancy and silliness and ignorance and caprice and jeal- 
ousy and quarrelsomeness and the love of excitement 
and adventure and the mere sport of overflowing animal 
health. They play unharmed among the forest beasts 
and conquer them in their play; but the forest is too 
dull and too poor for them, and they wander to the 
