[Illustration: House of the Chamber of Deputies]

[Illustration: Bourse, Paris]





I

PARIS




The City Beautiful

By Anne Warwick


[Footnote: From "The Meccas of the World." By permission of the publisher,
John Lane. Copyright, 1913.]


The most prejudiced will not deny that Paris is beautiful; or that there
is about her streets and broad, tree-lined avenues a graciousness at once
dignified and gay. Stand, as the ordinary tourist does on his first day,
in the flowering square before the Louvre; in the foreground are the
fountains and bright tulip-bordered paths of the Tuileries--here a glint
of gold, there a soft flash of marble statuary, shining through the trees;