EUROPEAN GUIDE BOOK ILLUSTRATED. PART II. INCLUDING GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, GREECE, EGYPT, ALGERIA, AND THE HOLY LAND. TO WHICH IS APPENDED A VOCABULARY OF TRAVEL-TALK, IN LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER; PARIS: GALIGNANI & Co. BOULOGNE: MERRIDEW. VIENNA GEROLD & CO. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN: C. JUGEL; JOSEPH BAER & CO. FLORENCE: E. GOODBAN. VENICE: ONGANIA. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1878, by D. APPLETON and Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. CHISWICK PRESS-C. WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT, PREFACE TO THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. INCE the first publication of this Guide Book in the year 1870 twelve editions have been printed and sold. Each successive edition has contained new and interesting matter, and important additions have been made to the maps and plans. The present edition, which is issued two months earlier than the previous annual editions, contains records of such events of interest to tourists as have transpired since the publication of the editions of 1877. Among the additions is a copious table of "Routes from London to the principal cities of the Continent." The large railway map of Europe has been carefully revised up to the last moment before going to press, and is now the most perfect map of the kind to be found in any Guide Book. The author avails himself of this opportunity to renew his grateful acknowledgments to the considerable number of tourists who have addressed letters to him and to his publishers commending the Guide Book, and to the reviewers of the United States and Great Britain, who, in every one of a great number of instances which have been brought to his notice, have spoken of the work in terms of the highest praise. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION. N the preparation of this Guide Book, the author has sought to give, within the limits of a single portable volume, all the information necessary to enable the tourist to find his way without difficulty from place to place, and to see the objects best worth seeing, throughout such parts of Europe as are generally visited by American and English travellers. He has endeavoured to give concise and reliable information in relation to all objects which, by common consent, are best worth a visit-giving fewer details in relation to matters of inferior or secondary interest. In doing this he has studiously avoided recording his own opinions and dicta, and encumbering the Guide Book with obtrusive criticisms; he has preferred to give facts, leaving his readers to form their own judgments and to make their own comments. In relation to matters about which there exists a difference of opinion among writers, he has contented himself with a brief statement of the opinions of the best writers on either side, leaving the decision to the judgment of the reader. With few exceptions, the author has travelled over the routes he has described, and has given the results of his own bonâ fide researches. In relation to places which he has not visited, he has sought information from trustworthy persons who have done so, and upon the accuracy of whose statements he has good reason to rely. It is hardly possible that a work of this character should be absolutely free from errors, as changes are constantly occurring-new routes opened, new hotels established, and the like; but the author ventures to say, that in point of accuracy it will at least bear comparison with similar works already published. He will be thankful to any one who will give him notice through his Publishers, of any errors or omissions. |