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In the Black Forest. 57 to the lighter and more volatile part of our nature; but then, it must be remembered, as a dead and gone friend used to say, that volity is not frivolity. The scene is at least gay and enlivening, unbends the mind, and is all innocent enough. The English do not understand amusing themselves after this manner; they are more heavy even than the Germans, at any rate in their recreations. And, taking us all round, are we one bit the better? Probably our climate has as much to do with it as any- thing. How is it pos- sible to go in for al- fresco concerts and entertainments when we scarcely know one - day whether the tem- perature of the next will be Siberian or Indian P Baden-Baden lies in a hollow or depres- sion; its villas are dotted about in ro- mantic, irregular posi- tions; a stream runs through it, spanned here and there by a small rustic bridge; long avenues, shaded by trees — of which the Lichtenthal is the principal—-form plea- sant drives and walks. Nothing can well be prettier than Baden itself—except its sur- ENTRANCE TO THE OLD CASTLE. roundings. On all , sides rise the hills of the Black Forest, dark and dense to their very summits with pine woods. Here and there an old ruined castle stands out, suggestive of a bygone age of martial glory, and chivalry, and gay cavaliers who loved, and “laughed and rode away.” One of the pleasantest excursions is that to the Old Castle, the most conspicuous of the ruins, an hour’s uphill walk from the town. The houses are soon left behind, and the air is laden with the perfume of acacias as you begin to ascend. Before you are the pine-clad hills, looking cool, dense and majestic, as if nothing disturbed their serenity. To the right is a green vale, through which runs a stream a" ~~ é i .) Te GG iy ~ see le if d \fi is ) SN 4 " py IZ “/ 4 WR As A ’ Vy J ¥ ~ Y a be g. s , VON, WAN ee — So ‘. a yyy : ‘ . " - - a’ a Po ae p ‘ EP J - =o - ~ iia =. — = ~ waa) -“ J SS= FH Py sts SZRORS exe -_ tt je er = == , > oe eS t- < i = 4 a ae 4 - —— - "4 + aA = y “oF — = ~ -. « -—e< tet tte “ra 7 ’ PS og star t oat *, Pe.7 DF eee LF ) tee ooe 's << Ss hn > 1 - ite eres ~ ~ 9 oe 6 es oe | oe wa < ~ = = - oe : , =e -* . > oe o- tf x, 75, “ree tree fy _ = — « e: ><: (hoes “ °“". > <- - = . > 4 -—— ~~ > ,, 4 - ‘ 2s oeree et . - > Sh Mell ¢ is ~~ ore fet ems, "ety +e ee —S ae, =a age et eT * eg | A ‘Ny AVA AY -. i " Wit " 6. 14] ‘Nh S > Sy or > Pal OF ee ne tS en —— x ay lee = Fay 7 es - _ ~ » la = — ? 7, ~ - 7 = os - ~ -< £4 = —- aie =F-ps*4 =| = tna et Ger. yu ca ; * <_< CONnniCclaoo® (C Ss (SO)