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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume I.
Great Britain and Ireland

Author: Various

Release Date: January 4, 2004 [EBook #10588]

Language: English

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SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS

Selected And Edited With Introductions, Etc.

By Francis W. Halsey

_Editor of "Great Epochs in American History" Associate Editor of "The
Worlds Famous Orations and of The Best of the World's Classics" etc._

In Ten Volumes

Illustrated

Vol. I Great Britain And Ireland

Part One

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

A two-fold purpose has been kept in view during the preparation of these
volumes--on the one-hand, to refresh the memories and, if possible, to
enlarge the knowledge, of readers who have already visited Europe; on the
other, to provide something in the nature of a substitute for those who
have not yet done so, and to inspire them with new and stronger ambitions
to make the trip.

Readers of the first class will perhaps find matter here which is new to
them--at least some of it; and in any case should not regret an
opportunity again to see standard descriptions of world-famed scenes and
historic monuments. Of the other class, it may be said that, in any
profitable trip to Europe, an indispensable thing is to go there possest
of a large stock of historical knowledge, not to say with some distinct
understanding of the profound significance to our American civilization,
past, present, and future, of the things to be seen there. As has so often
been said, one finds in Europe what one takes there--that is, we recognize
there exactly those things which we have learned to understand at home.
Without an equipment of this kind, the trip will mean little more than a
sea-voyage, good or bad, a few rides on railroads somewhat different from
our own, meals and beds in hotels not quite like ours, and opportunities
to shop in places where a few real novelties may be found if one searches
for them long enough.

No sooner