"HAND IT OVER TO ART."
NEAR THE SOURCE OF THE TIBER.
CAPRESE.
LAKE THRASIMENE.
THE TIBER NEAR PERUGIA.
TODI.
CHURCH AND CONVENT OF SAINT FRANCIS, AT ASSISI.




THE NEW HYPERION.

FROM PARIS TO MARLY BY WAY OF THE RHINE.


XIX.--TYING UP THE CLEWS.


[Illustration: CÆSAR'S PENNY.]

In leaving Cologne for Aix-la-Chapelle you turn your back to the
river--a particular which suited my mood well enough. The railway bore
us away from the Rhine-shore at an abrupt angle, and in my notion the
noble Germanic goddess or image seemed at this point to recede with
grand theatric strides, like a divinity of the stage backing away
from her admirers over the billowy whirlpool of her own skirts. As
I dreamed we penetrated the tunnel of Königsdorf, which is fifteen
hundred yards long, and which seemed to me sufficiently protracted to
contain the slumber of Barbarossa. The thought gave me a useful hint,