f Deputies. Both before and behind you, in
the Place itself, you have a splendid fountain, each being a round
basin, fifty feet in diameter, in which stands a smaller basin, with a
still smaller above it, supported and surrounded by bronze figures of
rivers, seas, genii of fruits, flowers, and fisheries, and all manner
of gods of commerce and navigation, all spouting water like mad.

See the famous marble horses from Marly. How impatient they look to
break away from the athletic arm which holds them! what life and spirit
they show! how beautiful they are! Take one look now at the Arc de
Triomphe; it is nearly two miles off, but looks very near. Now turn;
and directly opposite, at some distance, you see what James Lowell
calls the "Front door of the Tuilleries."

The gardens are full of beautiful children. Their mothers or nurses are
sitting under the trees, while the children run about at will. There
are thousands playing at ball, driving hoops, jumping ropes, shouting,
laughing, merry as children will be and ought to be.

Let us take a stroll in the Champs Elysees. You have never seen any
thing so beautiful, so captivating, as the scene. It seems like
enchantment. All the world is here--young and old, poor and rich,
fashionable and unfashionable. All for their amusement. Let us see what
this group are looking at so earnestly. A number of wooden ponies are
wheeled round and round, and each has a rosy-cheeked boy upon it. Here
is another in which they go in boats; another in chairs. This amusement
costs only two or three sous apiece to the children. The parents or the
nurses stand around enjoying it almost as much as the children. Let us
walk on. See that little fountain gleaming through the tender green of
the young leaves as you see them in the pretty wood that forms a
background to the picture. All along in the road you observe fine
equipages of all sorts standing in waiting, while the gay world, or the
poor invalids whom they brought to this place of enchantment, are
walking about or sitting in chairs, courting health and amusement. Here
is something still prettier than any thing you have seen--a beautiful
little carriage that can hold four children and a driver, drawn by four
white goats, with black horns and beards.

The French are peculiarly kind to animals. No law is necessary in
France for the protection of animals from the cruelty of their masters.
You meet men and women, very respectably dressed, leading do