Excerpt from Sights and Sensations in Europe
For some reason, never made clear to me, every American is supposed to know all about Europe. I always fancied such complete knowledge to be mine until I went abroad, and found my mistake. In attempting to describe so many countries in a single volume much of the description must necessarily be mere outline. I have devoted the most space to what seemed least familiar, and have tried to give clearly and unambitiously a general view of the Old World. My theme, I am aware, is very ancient, and if its treatment prove tiresome, the fault must be ascribed to the author's good fortune (the reader's corresponding ill fortune is not here to be taken into account) in securing that most desirable of all critics - a Publisher. While the book has been going through the press, the situation in France has changed so rapidly that I have spoken for the most part of the country and the capital as if the War had not been.
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