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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume VI

Author: Various

Release Date: February 20, 2004 [EBook #11179]

Language: English

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SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS

EDITED BY FRANCIS W. HALSEY

CONTENTS OF VOLUME VI

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland

Part Two

VI. HUNGARY—(Continued)

HUNGARIAN BATHS AND RESORTS—By H. Tornai de Kövër

THE GIPSIES—By H. Tornai de Kövër

VII. AUSTRIA'S ADRIATIC PORTS

TRIESTE AND POLA—By Edward A. Freeman

SPALATO—By Edward A. Freeman

RAGUSA—By Harry De Windt

CATTARO—By Edward A. Freeman

VIII. OTHER AUSTRIAN SCENES

CRACOW—By Mènie Muriel Dowie

ON THE ROAD TO PRAGUE—By Bayard Taylor

THE CAVE OF ADELSBERG—By George Stillman Hillard

THE MONASTERY OF MÖLK—By Thomas Frognall Dibdin

THROUGH THE TYROL—By William Cullen Bryant

IN THE DOLOMITES—By Archibald Campbell Knowles

CORTINA—By Amelia B. Edwards

IX. ALPINE RESORTS

THE CALL OF THE MOUNTAINS—By Frederick Harrison

INTERLAKEN AND THE JUNGFRAU—By Archibald Campbell Knowles

THE ALTDORF OF WILLIAM TELL—By W.D. M'Crackan

LUCERNE—By Victor Tissot

ZURICH—By W.D. M'Crackan

THE RIGI—By W.D. M'Crackan

CHAMOUNI—AN AVALANCHE—By Percy Bysshe Shelley

ZERMATT—By Archibald Campbell Knowles

PONTRESINA AND ST. MORITZ—By Victor Tissot

GENEVA—By Francis H. Gribble

THE CASTLE OF CHILLON—By Harriet Beecher Stowe

BY RAIL UP THE GORNER-GRAT—By Archibald Campbell Knowles

THROUGH THE ST. GOTHARD INTO ITALY—By Victor Tissot

X. ALPINE MOUNTAIN CLIMBING

FIRST ATTEMPTS HALF A CENTURY AGO—By Edward Whymper

FIRST TO THE TOP O THE MATTERHORN—By Edward Whymper

THE LORD FRANCIS DOUGLAS TRAGEDY—By Edward Whymper

AN ASCENT OF MONTE ROSA (1858)—By John Tyndall

MONT BLANC ASCENDED, HUXLEY GOING PART WAY—By John Tyndall

THE JUNGFRAU-JOCH—By Sir Leslie Stephen

XI. OTHER ALPINE TOPICS

THE GREAT ST. BERNARD HOSPICE—By Archibald Campbell Knowles

AVALANCHES—By Victor Tissot

HUNTING THE CHAMOIS—By Victor Tissot

THE CELEBRITIES OF GENEVA—By Francis H. Gribble

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VI

  Frontispiece
  THE MATTERHORN

KURSAAL AT MARIENBAD

MARIENBAD, AUSTRIA

MONASTERY OF ST. ULRIC AND AFRA, AUGSBURG

MONASTERY OF MÖLK ON THE DANUBE ABOVE VIENNA

MEMORIAL TABLET AND ROAD IN THE IRON GATE OF THE DANUBE

QUAY AT FIUME

ROYAL PALACE IN BUDAPEST

HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, BUDAPEST

SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE DANUBE AT BUDAPEST

STREET IN BUDAPEST

CATHEDRAL OF SPALATO

REGUSA, DALMATIA

MIRAMAR

GENEVA

REGATTA DAY ON LAKE GENEVA

VITZNAU, THE LAKE TERMINUS OF THE RIGI RAILROAD

RHINE FALLS NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN

PONTRESINA IN THE ENGADINE

ST. MORITZ IN THE ENGADINE

FRIBOURG

BERNE

VIVEY, LAKE GENEVA

THE TURNHALLE, ZURICH

INTERLAKEN

LUCERNE

VIADUCTS ON AN ALPINE RAILWAY

THE WOLFORT VIADUCT

BALMAT—SAUSSURE MONUMENT IN CHAMONIX

ROOFED WOODEN BRIDGE AT LUCERNE

THE CASTLE OF CHILLON

CLOUD EFFECT ABOVE INTERLAKEN

DAVOS IN WINTER

[Illustration: THE KURSAL AT MARIENBAD]

[Illustration: MARIENBAD, AUSTRIA]

  [Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF ST. ULRIC AND AFRA, AT AUGSBURG
  IN BAVARIA]

[Illustration: THE MONASTERY OF MÖLK ON THE DANUBE ABOVE VIENNA]

  [Illustration: MEMORIAL TABLET AND ROAD IN THE IRON GATE
  OF THE DANUBE]

[Illustration: THE QUAY OF THE FIUME AT THE HEAD OF THE ADRIATIC]

[Illustration: THE ROYAL PALACE AT BUDAPEST]

[Illustration: THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT AT BUDAPEST]

[Illustration: THE SUSPENSION BRIDGE OVER THE DANUBE AT BUDAPEST]

[Illustration: STREET IN BUDAPEST]

  [Illustration: THE CATHEDRAL OF SPALATO
  Burial-place of the Emperor Diocletian]

[Illustration: REGUSA, DALMATIA]

  [Illustration: MIRAMAR
  Long the home of the ex-Empress Carlotta of Mexico]

[Illustration: GENEVA]

[Illustration: REGATTA DAY ON LAKE GENEVA]

[Illustration: VITZNAU, THE LAKE TERMINUS OF THE RIGI RAILROAD]

[Illustration: THE RHINE FALLS NEAR SCHAFFHAUSEN]

VI

HUNGARY

(Continued)

HUNGARIAN BATHS AND RESORTS[1]

BY H. TORNAI DE KÖVËR

In Hungary there are great quantities of unearthed riches, and not only in the form of gold. These riches are the mineral waters that abound in the country and have been the natural medicine of the people for many years. Water in itself was always worshiped by the Hungarians in the earliest ages, and they have found out through experience for which ailment the different waters may be used. There are numbers of small watering-places in the most primitive state, which are visited by the peasants from far and wide, more especially those that are good for rheumatism.

Like all people that work much in the open, the Hungarian in old age feels the aching of his limbs. The Carpathians are full of such baths, some of them quite primitive; others are used more as summer resorts, where the well-to-do town people build their