Produced by Chris Curnow, Emmy and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) HOSPITAL SKETCHES 1916 HOSPITAL SKETCHES BY ROBERT SWAIN PEABODY BOSTON & NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY _The Riverside Press Cambridge_ 1916 COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY ROBERT SWAIN PEABODY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published December 1916_ "_Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light; I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams._" W. B. YEATS. NOTE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS are made to Messrs. Charles Scribner's Sons for permission to use a passage from Edith Wharton's _Fighting France_ and to The Macmillan Company for the use of the poem "Aedh wishes for the Cloths of Heaven," by W. B. Yeats. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ix VIEW FROM THE HOSPITAL TERRACE 1 UPTHORPE-CUM-REGIS I. The Minster and the Meadows 3 II. The Church Yard 7 III. The Village 11 IV. The Hall 15 V. Trong's Almshouses 19 RANCONEZZO VI. The Town and the Lake 23 VII. Piazza Garibaldi 27 VIII. Piazza Cavour 31 IX. North Door of the Duomo 35 X. Interior of the Duomo 39 XI. The Villa of the Cardinal Schalchi-Visconti 43 XII. Santa Prassede, the Cardinal's Church 47 XIII. The Cloisters of Sta Prassede 51 XIV. The Tomb of the Cardinal in Sta Prassede 55 ROCHER-ST.-POL XV. The Town and the River Merle 59 XVI. La Grande Rue and La Place de la République 63 XVII. L'escalier de Jacob 67 XVIII. Le Parvis de Ste Frédigonde 71 XIX. Interior of the Church of Ste Frédigonde 75 XX. Sacristy Steps in the Church of Ste Frédigonde 79 XXI. The Château Beaumesnil 83 XXII. La Tour de la Dame Blanche 87 AEGINASSOS XXIII. The Temple and the Forum 91 XXIV. The Temple and the Forum 95 INTRODUCTION