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COLOSSEUM CHRISTMAS SHOW

... one side of the cavern have been arranged into a series of picturoeque scenes, among which are a wild beasts' lair, the Yosemite Valley, and a model circus, said to be the greatest shew asn earth bar none. Oan the opposite side of the prass1age are a ...

ART IN LONDON

... remark- able bits of tree-painting-one, MJr J. M'WVhir- ter's Grizzly Giant (lStS), a reminiscence of a visit to the Yosemite Valley and its wonderful grove of giant Wellingtonias; and a scene nearer home, Under the Hawthorn Tree (187), which, for ...

LITERATURE

... worthy to be mentioned in the same breath with the Yosemite Valley. Indeed, 3 as I look upon it I can almost believe myself atanding once more on that rugged precipice c which overlooks the mighty valley in the Sierras, I at whoae bottom winds the silver ...

LITERATURE

... , . industries, the agricultural and piscatorial re- i sources, the wonderful scenery and natural i phenomena of the Yosemite valley, the Yellow.- 1 stone and other regions, the aborigines and the i new inhabitants of the different sections, is such that ...

LITERATURE

... inland sea. After a visit to -the Sandwich Islands, San Francisco was then made, and a tour taken to the celebrated Yosemite Valley. The tour was completed by the author traveling by Ogden, Chicago, and Niagara, through Canada to New York, and so home ...

LITERATURE

... Mr Marshall in his elaborate descriptiont of the valley, which has three bieaitiful falls, the Yosemite, the Vernal, and the Nevida each with its individual and remarkable . characteristics. The, Yosemite Vallley was ?? in 1850, and along with Mariposa ...

LITERATURE

... mines, she went on -without tlagging to San Francisco and the Pacific coast. IThen, turning southwards, she visitod the Yosemite valley, with its falls 2600 feet high and its won~rous Sequoia~ or Weliingtontia, pines, plunged into M11exico, of which she ...

LITERATURE

... ad on a trip to the Yosemite Valley. Of her first aT view of that valley she thus writes :- A won- c drons glade it is, and by what words may ev better convey a notion of it to those who may be not see it for themselves. The valley, throngh TI which the ...

LITERATURE

... Horn, San Francisco,: aI pnthe Hoogly, and the Canal, lands themn I at all the princical ports, conveys them up Ito the Yosem'it'e Valley, the Palaces of 'Tokio, -Ithe native Courts of Java, the Government t House at Calcutta, the Taj Mabhal of Agra, and'1 ...

LITERATURE

... hurry in the I correction of his proofs, his literary work is a-t the kindI that he who rims may read. Even 'n the Yosemite Valley, in the presence of water- °alls of over 2500 feet, he is cnrt, direct, and I cwift, as if, in writing also, nothing is ...

NEW BOOKS OF THE WEEK

... writer's object in publishing these chapters f of travel in places so familiar as Athens, Capri, c Algiers, Seville, and the Yosemite Valley. t There is no doubt that to the observing, well- a read man every place has its oavn aspects, and a wve should be loth ...

LITERATURE

... cool at noon; fe t where the hillsides are warmer at night and ya t cooler by day than the valleys; where they go di to the mountains for water and to the valleys M a for fuel ; where they gather the orange crop in th t Joaary and take off seven crops of ...