Waterside Avenues 
THE INN-ALLEE AT INNSBRUCK 
listlessly the livelier colors of the crowded 
houses. Not of Nemours alone are such 
views characteristic ; one comes upon them 
at every turn in Chartres, in Amiens, and in 
half a hundred other little towns in France. 
In strong contrast with this character, so 
full of gentle charm, are the craggy steeps 
along the Mediterranean shore, shelving out 
into the sea and harboring bevies of fishing 
boats upon pebbly margents. The Corniche 
Road at Marseilles is world-famous for its 
wealth of beauty of land and sea. Here all 
is a riot of glowing color; deepest ultra- 
marine with its laugh of lacy foam, tawny 
ochre, umber and sienna, somber olive and 
over all the cobalt canopy of sky. 
The quays of Marseilles are most im¬ 
pressive in their way, though their way is not 
one of suavity. Nothing is done here to 
beautify for the sake of beautifying. There 
are no boxes for on-lookers as there are along 
the quays of Paris, unless indeed we accept 
the many-windowed, cliffy houses for such 
vantage points. The inextricable interweave 
of spars and prows overhangs the rough- 
paved way like a leafless forest. It all smells 
strong and salt of ocean. Surely not a pleas¬ 
ure ground this, but nevertheless tremen¬ 
dously effective. 
Lyons is scarcely less highly developed in 
respect to its river frontage than is Paris, and 
the former has two great rivers to boast of in¬ 
stead of one. The Burgundian city rejoices in 
the extraordinary extent of its quays bordered 
with monumental buildings and with parks. 
There are many fine views ; one of the best 
commands the Hospital across the Saone, 
and, beyond, the hill of Fourviere raising 
aloft its temple-crowned plateau. Fourviere 
shows well also above the long Corinthian 
colonnade of the Law Courts. The pile 
atop is a lordly structure which, however 
violent and unpleasing its detail may be at 
close quarters, carries admirably. Its de- 
