LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE
OF
POPULAR LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.
DECEMBER, 1878.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878,
by J. B. Lippincott & Co., in the Office of the
Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS.
DANUBIAN DAYS.
"FOR PERCIVAL."
SOME ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY ART.
THREE WATCHES
SISTER SILVIA.
A SPANISH STORY-TELLER
THROUGH WINDING WAYS.
DAWN IN THE CITY.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION OF 1878.
THE COLONEL'S SENTENCE: AN ALGERIAN STORY.
STARLIGHT
THE GREAT EARTHQUAKE OF 1878 IN VENEZUELA.
OUR MONTHLY GOSSIP.
LITERATURE OF THE DAY.
Books Received.
DANUBIAN DAYS.
COSTUMES AT PESTH.If it were not for the people, the journey by steamer from Belgrade toPesth would be rather unromantic. When the Servian capital is reached inascending the great stream from Galatz and Rustchuk, the picturesque[Pg 650]cliffs, the mighty forests, the moss-grown ruins overhanging therushing waters, are all left behind. Belgrade is not very imposing. Itlies along a low line of hills bordering the Sava and the Danube, andcontains only a few edifices which are worthy even of the epithetcreditable. The white pinnacle from which it takes its name—for thecity grouped around the fort was once called Beograd ("whitecity")—now looks grimy and gloomy. The Servians have placed the cannonwhich they took from the Turks in the recent war on the ramparts, andhave become so extravagantly vain in view of their exploits that theirconceit is quite painful to contemplate. Yet it is impossible to avoidsympathizing to some extent with this little people, whose lot has beenso hard and whose final emancipation has been so long in arriving. Theintense affection which the Servian manifests for his native land isdoubtless the result of the struggles and the sacrifices which he hasbeen compelled to make in order to remain in possession of it. One dayhe has been threatened by the Austrian or the jealous and unreasonableHungarian: another he has received news that the Turks were marchingacross his borders, burning, plundering and devastating. There issomething peculiarly pathetic in the lot of these small Danubian states.Near