and many other stations of more or less importance,

to

ST. PETERSBURGH, capital of Russia, and principal city of all the far-north. This great city, founded by Peter the Great, lies on the Neva, and the marshes connected with that river, and is considered to vie with any other capital of Europe in splendor and picturesqueness. Its principal promenade is the Nevskoi Perspective, with the magnificent Winter Palace of the Emperor, one of the largest in the world, fronting upon it; near it the Hermitage (great collection of pictures); the Marble Palace, Court Theatre, etc. Among other prominent objects of interest in the great city of the North, are the Michailoff, Tauridæ and Annitchkoff Palaces; the Admiralty (celebrated equestrian statue of Peter the Great, near it); the monuments of the Romanzoffs, Alexander I, Marshal Suwaroff, etc.; the Cathedral of our Lady of Kazan; St. Peter and St. Paul, Smolnoi and Isak Churches (Isak Bridge near the latter); old and new Arsenals (with fine warlike collections); Museums (that of Peter the Great, especially); Monastery of St. Alexander Nevskoi; Summer Gardens, and those of Catharineshoff; Palace and grounds of the Tzarsko Selo (in the suburbs); many and fine theatres, etc.

Leave St. Petersburgh by steamer direct (twice a week), or by rail to Helsingfors and thence by steamer-down the Gulf of Finland and across the Baltic, to

STOCKHOLM, capital of Sweden, lying on islands. at the entrance of Lake Maelar, with long and fine

bridges, a Royal Palace (picture galleries and library); Cathedral of St. Nicholas; Ridderholm Church (royal mausoleum, and with many memorials of Gustavus Adolphus); and many other objects of interest. From Stockholm, by rail to Malmo, thence by boat to

COPENHAGEN, capital of Denmark, with Christiansburg, Rosenberg, and other Palaces; Cathedral of Notre Dame (tomb and many of the best works of the sculptor Thorwaldsen); Thorwaldsen's and the Royal Museums, etc. From Copenhagen, steamer to Lubeck and Hamburg, for Northern Germany or the Channel.

Or, from Stockholm by the Gotha Canal, across Sweden, by Lakes Maelar, Roxen, Boren, Wetter and Wenner, and the great Falls of Trolhatta, to Gothenberg, whence steamer to Copenhagen, to Hamburg, or to Hull (immediate return to England). Or, from Stockholm by rail, to CHRISTIANA, capital of Norway, and steamer thence to Copenhagen, Hamburg or Hull. Or, from Christiana by steamer to Christiansand, and thence to Bergen and Hammerfest, for visits to the North Cape, etc. (See following.)

[To see the Midnight Sun, at the North Cape, without having made any portion of the great Northern Tour, take steamer at Leith (port of Edinburgh, Scotland) or Hull, England (reached from York or Leeds) to Bergen (Norway); thence steamer to Hammerfest, the most northerly port in Europe: thence wagon (always ready) to the Cape, where arrival should be made by or about June 20th.]

[It need scarcely be said that all conveniences are best subserved by making the Northern tour, if at all, in the hottest months of the summer-the latter half of June, any part or all of July and August. For the tour, the same preparations, only, as for one among the Alps, are necessary: thick wraps and stout shoes for any pedestrianizing; and the former, at all events, for even summer sailing on the Baltic or riding in Northern Russia, Sweden or Norway.]

HINTS FOR A SHORT TOUR IN THE EAST.

STRICTLY speaking, the short-trip tourist does not make any run to what is called "the East:" if he does, he is in danger of moulting his title in the very act, and becoming the "long-trip" traveller-just as the Frenchman's little dog, all the value of which consisted in his remaining little, would insist upor growing to a big dog, and thus spoiled himself. It may be, however, that some of those who begin with the intention of only making short trips in Europe, may change their intention or find themselves dif ferently circumstanced from what they had supposed; and it is especially for their benefit that the following mere hints and outlines for seeing the most interesting portion of the Orient in economic connection (time and money, both), is here inserted.

The most convenient point, generally, at which the routes before marked out can be departed from, is to be found at Venice. From that Italian city, by rail to

TRIESTE, the most important commercial town of Austria, and the successor of Venice to the great trade of all that portion of the Mediterranean-lying at the head (northeast) of the Adriatic Sea. principal interest lies in its harbor, where a system of canals (devised principally by the Empress Maria

Its

Theresa) supplies the want of natural advantages. It has, however, two interesting public squares, the Piazza Grande and Borsenplatz; a Cathedral (Byzantine) of the fourth century; and what is called the Piazzetta (little place) de Ricardo, where Richard Cœur de Lion is alleged to have been confined by the Duke of Austria on his return from the Crusades, leading to the charming poetical story of his discov ery by the minstrel Blondel.

At Trieste is to be taken one of the steamers of the Austrian Lloyds (a corporation which vies with the French Messageries Impériales and the English Peninsular and Oriental Company, in lines running everywhere) through the Grecian Archipelago, to

The Piraus, port of Athens, from which is reached, four miles distant,

ATHENS, capital of Greece, and historically as well as artistically one of the most interesting cities on the globe. Its history is too well known, as connected with science, the arts and letters, to need even the briefest reference; and to those who do need such reminder, something more than the few words of the guide-book would be found necessary. Among the most notable of the great architectural remains which make Athens the wonder of the world, are the ruined Parthenon, or Temple of Minerva; the Acropolis; Mars Hill (or the Areopagus), where St. Paul preached to the "too superstitious" men of Athens; the Tower of the Winds; the Arch of Hadrian; the Temple of Jupiter Olympus; etc.; while no one sojourning any time at Athens, should fail to visit the Battle-field of Marathon, in the immediate