Excerpt from Byeways of Europe, Vol. 1 of 2
Whoever you may be, my friendly reader, - whether I may assume the footing of familiar aquaintance which comes of your having read my former books of travel, or whether we stand for the first time face to face, self-introduced to each other, and uncertain, as yet, how we shall get on together, - will you let me take you by the button-hole and tell you some things which must be said now, if at all?
This is probably the last book of travels which I shall ever publish. It closes a series of personal and literary experiences which cannot be renewed, and which I have no belief will be extended. Now, therefore, all that I have done as a traveller detaches itself from my other labours, lies clear behind me as a life by itself, and may be considered with a degree of self-criticism which was scarcely possible while it lay nearer.
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