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majestic roar. ‘Turn by turn calm and tumultuous,
it charms, it astonishes the eye by scenes old yet ever
new.

Eglantine would often say to her mother, in ecstasies
of delight, ‘How insipid everything I have admired
up to this appears to me now! How monotonous
the boulevards and pleasure-gardens of Paris are,
compared with what is now before us!’

‘T don’t believe, Eglantine, that any poet or painter
could attempt to write or paint perfectly the beauties
of nature without having first visited Italy or Switzer-
land. Louis Backhuysen, a famous Dutch painter,
would sit for hours on the beach, when the sea was
roughest, trying to catch every change and movement
of the waves.

‘Rugendas, a remarkable painter of battles, assisted
at the bombardment and taking of Augsburg.
Several times he risked his life in order to make a
perfect painting of the battle-field) He was often
seen in the middle of the fight taking a sketch with
as much care as if he were in his studio.

‘Van der Meulen followed Louis xv. through all
his conquests, taking sketches of fortified cities and
their surroundings, the encampments, the halts, the
bivouacs, etc., in order to perfect the pictures which