Excerpt from Rambles in Historic Lands: Travels in Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France and England
When a new book of European travel is announced the three questions naturally arise, Who is the author? What is his point of view? What new has he to tell?
In reply it must be confessed that he is no distinguished man. He is a resident of Mobile, and a graduate of Princeton College in 1879, where he took the Mental Science fellowship and went to Leipzig University for courses in philosophy and law. In the vacations he travelled a good deal, ranging from Stirling to Pompeii, from Berlin to Paris. Not yet recovered from the systematic training of his alma mater, he observed carefully while abroad and kept full journals, being interested more especially in everything connected with history. On this occasion he lived abroad over a year.
In 1891 came the pleasure trip of four months recorded in this volume, in which the route was somewhat varied but the historical point of view maintained. This book follows the footprints of the second visit but includes much of importance gleaned on the first. It has been almost two years on the anvil.
What new has he to tell?
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