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Title: Europe After 8:15

Author: H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

Illustrator: Thomas H. Benton

Release Date: January 7, 2007 [EBook #20306]

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[Illustration: EUROPE AFTER 8:15]

[Illustration: BERLIN]

EUROPE AFTER 8:15

BY

H. L. MENCKEN

GEORGE JEAN NATHAN

WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT

WITH DECORATIONS

_By_ THOMAS H. BENTON

NEW YORK--JOHN LANE COMPANY
TORONTO--BELL & COCKBURN--MCMXIV

Copyright, 1914
BY JOHN LANE COMPANY

CONTENTS

PAGE

PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER 7

VIENNA 35

MUNICH 71

BERLIN 111

LONDON 145

PARIS 189

PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER

"Nothing broadens and mellows the mind so much as foreign
travel."--_Dr. Orison Swett Marden._

The scene is the brow of the Hu