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Title: Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume V (of X)

Author: Various

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SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS AUTHORS, VOLUME V

GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND SWITZERLAND, PART ONE

Selected and Edited, with Introductions, etc., by

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

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

IN TEN VOLUMES

ILLUSTRATED

1914

[Illustration: BERLIN: PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF THE TOWN HALL]

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES V AND VI

Germany, Austria-Hungary and Switzerland

The tourist's direct route to Germany is by ships that go to the two
great German ports--Bremen and Hamburg, whence fast steamer trains
proceed to Berlin and other interior cities. One may also land at
Antwerp or Rotterdam, and proceed thence by fast train into Germany.
Either of these routes continued takes one to Austria. Ships by the
Mediterranean route landing at Genoa or Trieste, provide another way for
reaching either country. In order to reach Switzerland, the tourist has
many well-worn routes available.

As with England and France, so with Germany--our earliest information
comes from a Roman writer, Julius