Ball
Incidents

Chapter IX.

St. Cloud
The Palace at Versailles
The Pleasure-Garden

Chapter X.

Leaving Paris
Brussels
The Cathedral
Hotel de Ville
Antwerp
_The Spirit of Revolution_
Notre Dame Cathedral
The Museum

Chapter XI.

Holland.

The Hague
_Cloak-Rooms_
Utrecht

Chapter XII.

Cologne
The Cathedral
The Museum
Depths of Man's Degradation
Bonn
The Kreuzberg
The Drachenfels

Chapter XIII.

Coblentz
Geological Laws
On the Rhine
Frankfort
Darmstadt
Worms

Chapter XIV.

The Palatinate, (_Die Pfalz_).

Mannheim
Neustadt
Heidelberg
The Castle
The Great Tun
Stuttgart
Strassburg
The Black Forest

Chapter XV.

Switzerland.

The Rigi
The Giessbach Falls
The Rhone Glacier
The Grimsel
The Cathedral of Freiburg
Berne

Chapter XVI.

Geneva to Turin
Mont Cenis Tunnel

Italy.

Its Fair Sky and Beautiful People,
Milan
Venice
San Marco

Chapter XVII.

Venice to Bologne
Florence
Pisa
Going Southward

Chapter XVIII.

Rome.

The Colosseum
The Roman Forum
The Site of the Ancient Capitol
"Twelve"
The Temple of Caesar
The Baths of Caracalla
The Pyramid of Cestius
St. Peter's
The Lateran
Santa Maria Maggiore
Museums

Chapter XIX.

Rome to Brindisi.

Ascent of Mount Vesuvius,
The Ruins of Pompeii

Chapter XX.

On the Mediterranean
Alexandria
Cairo
Wretchedness of the Poorer Classes
The Return Trip
Conclusion

Subjects treated in a general way are distinguished by being rendered in
italics, in this table of contents.

[Illustration: The Keystone State Normal School.]

Chapter I.

Leaving Home.

While engaged in making the preliminary arrangements for leaving soon
after the "Commencement" of the Keystone State Normal School (coming off
June 24th), information was received that the "Manhattan," an old and
well-tried steamer of the Guion Line, would sail from New York for
Liverpool on the 22nd of June. She had been upon the ocean for nine years,
and had acquired the reputation of being "_safe but slow_." As I esteemed
_life_ more precious than _time_, though either of them once lost can
never be recovered, I soon decided to share my fate with her--by her, to
be carried safely to the "farther shore," or with her, to seek a watery
grave.

The idea of