Excerpt from The Economical European Tourist: A Journalist Three Months Abroad for $430, Including an Account in Detail of the Daily Disbursements, Hotel Bills, Railroad Fare, Cabs, Sight Seeing, Showing What Was Enjoyed and What It Costs
A trip to Europe! Its anticipations were not to me more inspiriting than their realization now is. To know Europe through one's own senses is the indulgent life-long dream of many Americans.
I had always held a doctrine that to give an American balance, he should have a trip through the mother-world - although experiment proves even that is not always effectual. The transatlantic world is to us the mother-world in every phase of human life - of art and thought - except as to our peculiar American freedom; and as to that, nowhere on the round earth do men walk so erectly and easily as here. Many times as the writer went through Europe, he thought, "Ah! we have nothing in America but freedom;" but more of this in the sequel.
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