Excerpt from Roundabout Rambles in Northern Europe
The Cartmells are natural travellers. They love to see the beautiful and the wonderful, at home and abroad; they are willing to put up with inconveniences, and they rarely worry over accidents or grumble at delays. Mr. and Mrs. Cartmell began to make short excursions, taking their children with them when quite small. Before going to Europe, long trips were made in America, and described in the volume entitled "The Land We Live In." Pleasure and education are the great objects of their journeyings.
Miss Gray, the governess, usually accompanies them to look after the children, and to give them instruction as occasion permits. Frequently Mr. French, an old friend, joins the Cartmells, with his new yacht, the Verbena.
As Great Britain is so closely connected with the United States by language, history, and ancestry, the Cartmells find much to interest them there, - and spend nearly a year in sojourning within its borders. Even then many well-known places are not visited, and are in many cases not mentioned in the text.
Every effort has been made to have the information given correct and up to date, so that the book may be a safe guide to all travellers crossing the Atlantic. The illustrations are nearly all made from photographs obtained largely in Europe. The Cunard Company has been very courteous in lending photographs and cuts. A list of poems connected with the places described, which can be read profitably as the chapters are taken up, is given at the end of the book.
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