Through Greece and Dalmatia: A Diary of Impressions Recorded by Pen Picture (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Barrington, Russell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330714504 ISBN 13: 9781330714508

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Through Greece and Dalmatia: A Diary of Impressions Recorded by Pen Picture The Baronin von SchmidtZabiero took the warmest interest in questions relating to the condition of all classes. She married a distinguished Austrian official, Baron von Schmidt-Zabiero, for whom the Emperor Joseph felt a personal regard, and who for many years was Landes President of Carinthia. As his wife, she had full scope for exercising her philanthropic tendencies. At Klagenfurt she worked strenuously for a higher standard of education for women - to secure for them the same intellectual privileges and power of artistic development which are accorded to women in England and Paris. The hospitals she took also under her special care. Her only sister, Anna, a lady of brilliant parts, had married the famous Von Helmholtz, and assisted the Empress Frederick, our Princess Royal, in carrying out various good works for women in Germany. The two sisters - one in Berlin, the other at Klagenfurt, were both engaged in important public work; but, however onerous her public and social duties might be, the dear Ida of early days ever retained the same vital interest and loving sympathy in all that concerned her friends, in their family concerns no less than in their intellectual and artistic occupations. There are certain people whose lives are never written. However important their social and official lives, however good and beneficent their work may be, they escape the biographer. The strength of their natures seem to lie in a power of sympathy rather than in a power of self-revealing, or in an expression through any form which the public may claim as its own. They become a part of the intimate lives of their friends; they enter into the inner sanctuaries with which the public has nothing to do. When they pass beyond the veil, the void in the lives of those friends left by their passing on is felt in that inner personal life, and defeats very explicit description. Such a one was Ida von

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Excerpt from Through Greece and Dalmatia: A Diary of Impressions Recorded by Pen Picture

To anyone who has six weeks to play with from Septem ber Ist to the middle of October, and who wishes that the days of those six weeks should be full of interest and nourishment; and who craves, moreover, for the sun shine of the South to warm him through before the damp fog and cold of an English winter begins, no better recipe could be given, I believe, than that of the journey noted in this diary.

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• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330714504
• ISBN 13: 9781330714508
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360