AViSIY Td V£rMICH. I was a member of a party of lucky Ejaglish students who toured Europe in May, last year. The most interesting time I ever had was in the wonder city, Venice. life had been sailing up the Adriatic Sea for two days when suddenly we rounded a green-clad bluff and there before our eyes, gleaming like an opalescent pearl, lay the city which Dryden so aptly describes as "the dream upon the ocean". Cooks had mapped out everything for us and we settled down to enjoy ourselves. The next morning we were up early, and a chartered gondola was awaiting us to conduct our party on its first day's tour, ife were to stay five days in the city, so it was accordingly divided up into sections for our convenience. Humniing an air, the gondolier slowly propelled his gondola along the Grand Canal, Iflftiat a vista I Stretching seemingly endless until it took a mighiysweep and formed a gigantic letter "S". In the afternoon we visited St, Mark's Cathedral, which stands quite alone among the beautiful buildings of the world In respect of its uneqmlled richness of material and decoration. It has been supplemented with statues, tapestries, and plate from numberless other cathedrals, and forms a veritable museum of everything which symbolizes beauty at its best. The harmonizing of floor, walls and lofty ceilings is perfect. One feels awed in the presence of so much beauty. The exterior is no less magnificent than the interior, the whole being embellished with statues, slabs of exquisite maible and mosaics. We were next conducted over St.John's library in St.Mark's square. The library is also rich in pictuies b/ Raphael and da Vinci, The walls are sculptured panels dejicting scenes from the Testaments, while the books themselves are very rare and preciovus• * Venice possesses what is perhaps the most magnificenteques trian statue in the World, namely the colossal bronze portaiture of Collconi, the famous Venetian Commander-in-Chief. It st.nds in the square of Paola and is the predominating feature. Boulevards, streets and squares are nearly as commo: in Venice as in any other city of the World for this town is n<fc, as
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