CAPRI’S GROTTO.

Evening Star, Issue 11776, 5 January 1903, Page 7

CAPRI’S GROTTO.

There are few more enchanting epots in the Mediterranean than the little island of Capri, at the southern end of the Bay of Naples. Here the late Herr Krupp spent some time, and certain caustic criticisms concerning the great gunmaker’s holiday led to the suppression ,of an issue of the ‘ Vorwaerts.’ Capri’s chief attraction is its famous grotto, of which Alexandre Dumas onco wrote : —“ Before me, around me, above me, beneath me, behind me, were marvels of which no words can give an idea, and before which the artist’s brush itself, that groat transmitter of human recollections, is powerless. Imagine a vast azure' cavern, all azure, as if God had pleased himself by making a tent of a bit of the firmament ; water so limpid, so transparent, so pure, that we seemed to be floating on a substance of air; stalactites pendent from the roof like pyramids reversed; in the depths a golden sand mingled with ivtanv submarine vegetations; along the walls, bathed softly by the water, bunches of coral with caprici ou.s glittering branches ; on ihe sea .side- a speck, a star, through which came the glim mering light that illumined this fairy pai ace; and directly opposite, a species id throne for the sumptuous goddess, whoevei she was, who had chosen for her bathroom one of the wonders of the world.”