The chancery edicts, freshly inked and dispatched from the Hofburg, have reached our exchange arcade with tidings of a market in quiet ferment. The official bulletins of the 16th of October, collected…
The Torricellian column rests at 29.92 inches, its quicksilver surface unshaken, as though the very breath of the Carpathians were held in suspense. Beside it, the hair-hygrometer lengthens by fine de…
Out of Kneeling Glen the river fog ascends in slow, deliberate coils, a vaporous serpent unfurling across the valley floor. It swallows the black pines one by one, their shivering needles reduced to g…
The gazettes of the fifteenth of October, collected under the imperial seal and disseminated from the chancery in Vienna, present a tableau of commerce both vigorous and vexed. In the capital, the exc…
A serene clarity reigns over the Carpathian heights this afternoon, the sky a pale cerulean canvas brushed with but a fifteenth-part cloud, as if the heavens themselves had been swept by an unseen han…
On the fifteenth day of October, in the year of our Lord 1841, the muddy banks of the Danube bore witness to an undertaking of singular audacity. Count István Széchenyi, that tireless advocate of Hung…