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Title: Travels in Europe and America
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Bolton, Charles E(dward), 1841-1901. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, T. Y. Crowell & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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light in his lofty chamber, whichcame from one small window, he became a masterof light and shade, and excelled in vigor and real-ism. Pupils came to him from all parts of Europe,and he taught them for $50 a year. He died incomparative poverty. Long after his death Londonpaid $25,000 for one of his 640 paintings. TheFlemish artists represented the religious life, andthe Dutch the home life and everyday manners ofthe people. We reached Hanover on October 17, and founda thriving city, which was formerly the capital ofthe Kingdom of Hanover. But Bismarck abolishedthe Kingdom, and now it is the chief city of thePrussian Province of Hanover. Since 1866 itsgrowth has been rapid, and the city is proud of herbuildings, parks, and schools. From Hanover Ijourneyed via Cassel to Leipsic, about the size ofHanover, and the center of the German book trade.Here are nearly a hundred printing-offices and threetimes as many booksellers shops, whence books areforwarded to all parts of the German Empire,
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WILHELMINA, QUEEN OF THE NETHERLANDS. TRAVELS, 159 Europe, and to more distant countries. Here is avery old and important University, and handsometheatre, museum, etc. The Michaehnas Fair was in progress, and thetown was crowded with thirty or forty thousandtraders from all Europe, and from the East cameArmenians, Bulgarians, Greeks, Jews and Turks.Sometimes $5,000,000 worth of furs annually changehands, and many millions worth of leather, cloth,linen, woolen goods, and glass are bought and sold.I enjoyed mingling with the peasant people fromthe mountains, who were at the Fair to sell theirhumble wares, and I made a few purchases. From the tower of Pleissenburg we had a birds-eye view of the Battle of Leipsic, or the Battle ofNations, which lasted from the i6th to the 19th ofOctober, 1813. Napoleons forces probably num-bered less than 150,000, and the Allied troops twiceas many. The Allied armies lost about 50,000,while not more than 90,000 of the French army onOctober 19 began their

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