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Show Buskin writes aogrily from Venice that a steamer now bears passongeis across tho lagoon from the city to tie Lido. Ho fears tho total loss of the peculiarities that have made Vcoico to unique and delightful to cultivated and poetio minds. All present indications indica-tions are that we shall see the Btrcets undermined and occupied by horse railways; the lesser caDals filled in; the "bridge of sighs," with tho prisons and palaces, demolished to give room for warehouses; and, while tho steamer drives out the gondola, Venice becoming becom-ing prosaio and prosperous. It may be hard for a poctio soul to . become : reconciled to the irresistible consequences conse-quences of progress, but, romance and business are mortal enemies, and when-over when-over the latter appears the former is doomed. |