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[Illustration: CASTELLO MEZZATORRE
PAGE 162]
BY THE WAY
TRAVEL LETTERS WRITTEN
DURING SEVERAL JOURNEYS ABROAD
DESCRIBING SOJOURNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, IRELAND
FRANCE, GERMANY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
ITALY, GREECE, AND EUROPEAN
AND ASIATIC TURKEY
BY
AGNESS GREENE FOSTER
AUTHOR OF
"YOU & SOME OTHERS"
"A ROYAL ROAD"
"BLESSINGS"
ETC.
Illustrated
PAUL ELDER & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS ··· SAN FRANCISCO
REVISED AND ENLARGED EDITION
New material has been added in this edition including sojourns in
Turkey, Greece, Austria-Hungary and Germany. While not intended in any
way as a guide-book, this volume will be found especially helpful to
those contemplating a first journey across the Atlantic. Attention is
called to the list of pensions and to the bibliography.
Copyright, 1903
by AGNESS GREENE FOSTER
Copyright, 1910
by PAUL ELDER AND COMPANY
THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY
MY DEAR:
"WHEN AT THE FIRST I TOOK MY PEN IN HAND
THUS FOR TO WRITE, I DID NOT UNDERSTAND
THAT I AT ALL SHOULD MAKE A LITTLE BOOK
IN SUCH A MODE; NAY, I HAD UNDERTOOK
TO MAKE ANOTHER, WHICH, WHEN ALMOST DONE,
BEFORE I WAS AWARE I THIS BEGUN.
... BUT YET I DID NOT THINK
TO SHOW TO ALL THE WORLD MY PEN AND INK
IN SUCH A MODE; I ONLY THOUGHT TO MAKE—
I KNEW NOT WHAT: NOR DID I UNDERTAKE
THEREBY TO PLEASE MY NEIGHBOR; NO, NOT I,
I DID IT MINE OWN SELF TO GRATIFY."
* * * * *
AND THUS IT WAS, ONE BRIGHT SEPTEMBER DAY,
FULL SUDDENLY I FINISHED "BY THE WAY."
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE AUTHOR'S APOLOGY iii
BY WAY OF PREAMBLE ix
PART I
ENGLAND 3
SCOTLAND 28
IRELAND 34
ITALY 51
SWITZERLAND 93
HOLLAND AND BELGIUM 105