One Of The Hungry.

1 According to official statistics, although between 1869 and 1880 the emigrants from Italy numbered only 120,000, in the year 1881 alone, 135,832 Italians left the mother country. Since then the emigration from the impoverished land has been increasing by leaps and bounds. Thus, in 1891, there left Italy 293,631 of her inhabitants; in 1896, 307482; in 1901, 553,245; and in 1902, very nearly 600,000 souls.

Castle And Promontory Of Malcesine.

Malcesine, From The South.

I shall never forget the charming picture that Malcesine presented to us as we left it in the afternoon, when the declining sun, streaming across the lake from the summits of the opposite mountains, transformed to glittering jewels the windows of its lofty tower, and shed a brilliant lustre over the olive groves which cover the ascending slopes for miles with their soft tints of silvery gray. It made us understand the longing for Italian scenery which Goethe puts into Mignon's touching song:

"Know'st thou the land where bloom the citron bowers, Where the gold orange lights the dusky grove ? High waves the laurel there, the myrtle flowers, And through a still, blue heaven the sweet winds rove; Know'st thou it well?"

Crossing Lake Garda once more from Malcesine, our steamer suddenly halts within the shadow of a monster cliff, upon whose edge, two thousand feet above our heads, a white church spire and a fringe of houses seem to be peering curiously at us over the appalling precipice. This hamlet in the clouds is called Tremosine. A little boat comes out to us from the mountain's base, to take off one or two adventurous passengers and several sacks and boxes; but how they are to reach the village on the heights at first remains a mystery. At length, however, we detect a narrow trail, which might have been laid out originally by a chamois; and up its many zigzags, through a granite wilderness, the pilgrims to Tremosine will have to climb like goats, while all their baggage must be hauled up thither by strong wires and a windlass. Yet telegraph poles, which also scale this precipice, hint of a more important settlement than one can, from the lake, imagine possible. In fact, the breathless climber, when he sets his foot upon the summit, beholds to his astonishment a large plateau, with numerous orchards, olive groves, and vineyards, sheltered by other mountains, and irrigated by two limpid streams.

Bardolino, On Lake Garda. "Know'st Thou The Land?".

Perhaps the loveliest, and certainly the most frequented, portion of Lake Garda is the shore line, known as the Riviera of Gardone. This lies within the curving arm of a southward-facing bay, and its entire bank is fringed with villas, hotels, and attractive gardens. Hither, in autumn, comes an ever increasing number of those who dread the cold and dampness of the northern winters; and many of these votaries of the sun remain here till the month of April. Nor is it strange; for while this western shore of the Gardasee is well equipped with comfortable hotels, and is exempt from many of the annoyances of the Mediterranean Riviera, its midwinter temperature differs from that of Nice by only two degrees, and its vegetation and flora are identical. One feels the charm of Italy here no less than on the Lido or at Capri. The houses, with their gaily colored walls and frescos, set in graceful frames of oleanders and magnolias, are essentially Italian. So are the pilgrim shrines and churches, perched on isolated heights, and guarded by long lines of cypresses. Occasionally a tiny chapel rises from the water's edge, and the sweet face of a Madonna, or the figure of the Crucified, looks out upon the sapphire lake; and sometimes we discern a white-walled convent, like a spotless dove, brooding upon a mountain crest above this scene of peace and beauty.

Tremos1ne.

A Part Of The Riviera Of Gardone.

A Street In Salo, On Lake Garda.