Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine

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Blackburn Henry. Artists and Arabs; Or, Sketching in Sunshine

ARGUMENT

CHAPTER I. ON THE WING

CHAPTER II. ALGIERS

CHAPTER III. THE MOORISH QUARTER – OUR STUDIO

CHAPTER IV. 'MODELS.'

CHAPTER V. OUR 'LIFE SCHOOL'

CHAPTER VI. THE BOUZAREAH – A STORM

CHAPTER VII. BLIDAH – MEDEAH – THE ATLAS MOUNTAINS

CHAPTER VIII. KAB YLIA – THE FORT NAPOLÉON

CHAPTER IX. 'WINTER SWALLOWS.'

CHAPTER X. CONCLUSION

POSTSCRIPT TO SECOND EDITION

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BY the middle of the month of July, the Art season in London was on the wane, and by the end of August the great body of English artists had dispersed, some, the soundest workers perhaps, to the neighbourhood of Welsh mountains and English homesteads, to – 'The silence of thatched cottages and the voices of blossoming fields.'

From the Tweed to the Shetland Isles, they were thick upon the hills; in every nook and corner of England, amongst the cornfields and upon the lakes; in the valleys and torrent beds of Wales, the cry was still 'they come.'

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Everything is neatly and quietly served, the menu is varied enough, with good French dishes and game in abundance; the hosts being especially liberal in providing those delicious little birds that might be larks or quails, – which in Algiers we see so often on the table and so seldom on the wing.

Half the people that are dining at the 'Hôtel d'Orient' to-day are residents or habitués; they come in and take their accustomed places as cosily, and are almost as particular and fastidious, as if they were at their club.

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