It is a great pleasure to write the word; but I am not sure there
is not a certain impudence in pretending to add anything to it.
Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and
of all the cities of the world is the easiest to visit without
going there. Open the first book and you will find a rhapsody about
it; step into the first picture-dealer's and you will find three or
four high-coloured "views" of it. There is notoriously nothing more
to be said on the subject. Every one has been there, and every one
has brought back a collection of photographs. There is as little
mystery about the Grand Canal as about our local thorough-fare, and
the name of St. Mark is as familiar as the postman's ring. It is
not forbidden, however, to speak of familiar things, and I hold
that for the true Venice-lover Venice is always in order. There is
nothing new to be said about her certainly, but the old is better
than any novelty. It would be a sad day indeed when there should be
something new to say. I write these lines with the full
consciousness of having no infor-mation whatever to offer. I do not
pretend to enlighten the reader; I pretend only to give a fillip to
his memory; and I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is
himself in love with his theme.
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