Identifier: travelogues08holmuoft (find matches)
Title: Travelogues;
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Holmes, Burton, b. 1870
Subjects: Argentina -- Description and travel Chile -- Description and travel Brazil -- Description and travel South America -- Description and travel Iguassu Falls
Publisher: Chicago, Travelogue Bureau
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A LIVERIED HlltLNUiVIliNON 28 ST. PETERSBURG students mingle with dukes and princes, and women ofthe middle class look with envy at princesses promenadinghere, or at the marble beauties on the pedestals, whoby virtue of their classic costumes are exempt from themodern world-wide necessity of holding up the trailing, germ-collecting skirt, that anomaly of our supposedly practical andscientific century. The day of our first visit, late in April, the trees wereemulating the nudity of the marble statues ; but when wecame again in May, the tiny leaves, conjured into being bythe persistent sun, had clothed this urban forest with a frockof springtime green. We have been told that winter is theproper season for St. Petersburg. I cannot tell ; but if its
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THE IMPERIAL STABLES ST. PETERSBURG 29 short Arctic days offer more of life and interest to the traveler,the endless afternoons of a spring are rich in natural charm.The spring comes to Petersburg so suddenly that straw-hatsare needed before the furs of winter can be packed away.We found the city basking in warm sunshine ; yet, only fivedays before, the frozen Neva had succumbed to the attack ofPhoebus Apollos bright battalions and, in the desperation of

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