Last words of Thomas Carlyle - Warburg Institute

——;:EXCURSION TO PARIS 167altered : Obelisk of Luxor, asphalt spaces and stonepavements, lamps all on big gilt columns, big fountain(its Nereids all silent) :a smart place, and very Frenchin its smartness, but truly an open airy quarterChamps-Elysees woods(or shrubs and brushwoods),broad roads, river, quais, all very smart indeed.Crossthe bridge (Pont de la Concorde, I think, a new-lookingbridge)^ Palais Bourbon oron the south side of it,National Assembly HouseNo, I did not now crossthese, I crossed by the next bridge eastward (PontEoyal), that was my route, so important to myselfand mankind ! Quais rather rusty and idle-looking ;river itself no great things either for size or quality,bathing-barges mainly, and nothing very clean, or busyat all. Ee-cross by the Pont des Arts ; Louvre gettingitself new-faced, its old face new hewn, complicatedscaffoldings and masons hanging over it,—rathercohivehhish in its effect. Much of the interior is gettingpulled down; Carrousel, Tuileries, Jardin desTuileries, Palais Eoyal, &c., all looked dirty, unswept,or insufficiently swept,—the humble besom is notperhaps the chosen implement of France. Home atnine : all our party ill of cold. Lady invisible ; myroom to be next night a much better, curtainedandquite elegant, but still not quiet one, on this samefloor (the thh'd I think ; directly above the pillars andthe first entresol), looking out into the interior courtthere I, will try again, one night at least. Lord Ashburtonto see Museums ' 'or some such thing with