_PAU._ Imposing Appearance—Pension Colbert—The Season—Climate—Writers on—Rise of Pau—Town—View of Pyrenees—Chateau—Public Park —Environs—Excursions—The Cemetery—French General Election, 439 XX. _SECOND WINTER IN THE RIVIERA._ Pau to Toulouse—_Montpellier_—Climate—Town—Train to Marseilles —_Toulon_—_Hyères_—Hotels—Climate—Garden—La Plage—Hyères to Cannes—Mentone—Cold Weather—Improvements—More Building —Political Position in France—Eastern Question—English Position causes Anxiety—Death of Victor Emmanuel and Pope—Services in Cathedral—Carnival—Gaieties—Mentone to S. Remo—S. Remo to Alassio—_Alassio_—Hotels—Town—Situation—Walks and Views—Dr. Schneer on Climate—_Genoa_—Via Orifici—Galleria, etc.—_Turin_ —View of Alps from Monastery—The Town—Monuments—Waldensian Church—Mont Cenis Tunnel—_Aix les Bains_—Return Home, 450 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE 1. Frontispiece—View from Footbridge up the Carrei to North Mountain Range, Mentone. 2. The Estrelles from St. Honorat, Cannes, Facing 147 3. Oil Mills, Carrei Valley, Mentone, ” 191 4. Promenade du Midi, Mentone, ” 205 5. Corsica as occasionally seen before Sunrise, Mentone, ” 235 6. A City set upon a Hill on Road to Lucca, ” 271 7. Sorrento from the West, ” 337 8. Ponte Vecchio, Florence, ” 345 9. Tomb of Juliet, Verona, ” 379 10. Bellaggio, Lake Como, ” 393 11. Port Vieux Bathing Establishment, Biarritz, ” 421 12. Biarritz Bathers, ” 429 PREFACE. THE health of my wife having rendered it advisable to spend a winter in the South of France, I made arrangements to accompany her, and we left home in October 1876. After a short stay at Cannes and three months in Mentone, with marked improvement, we made a tour of four months in Italy, and then passing the remainder of the summer of 1877 in Switzerland, and the autumn chiefly in Biarritz and Pau, we spent a second winter in the Riviera, principally in Mentone, returning to England _viâ_ Turin in May 1878. * * * * *