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Show POPULAR IRISHMAN SOON TO ARRIVE. Richard Burke. M. F. H.. of Grove, Tipperary, Ireland, is due here in midsummer mid-summer on his annual visit to California. Califor-nia. He will be accompanied by some of the members of his family, who are as much at home on the Pacific coast as they are On the other side of the Atlantic. At-lantic. Mr. Burke and his family have just completed a delightful tour through Frence, and on by the Riviera, stopping at Genoa and Pisa on their way to Rome, where they spent Eastertide. They found the Eternal City Very fascinating, fas-cinating, especially at this season, when all that Hawthorne and Dickens, or even Byron, -wrote on the subject seems inadequate to grasp what courses through one's imagination when contemplating con-templating the old Forum and Coliseum. Coli-seum. The magnificence in art, in the churches particularly, is entrancing. On lister Sunday the spectacle in St. Peter's Pe-ter's was transeendant, the splendor and solemnity of the services and cere- 1 monies being beyond the power of lan- ! guagu to describe. One's memory recalls re-calls on such a visit to. Rome the lines of Samuel Rogers when he first beheld the City of the Soul: "I am in Rome. Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes,-waking at once I cry. Whence this' excess of-joy ? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, re-plies, , , . Thou are in Home;- A thousand busy th ought a Ruph on my mind, a thousand images: And I spring up as girt, to run a race." The Leader. |