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Excerpt from Lectures, Vol. 2 of 10: Illustrated and Embellished With Views of the World's Famous Places and People, Being the Identical Discourses Delivered During the Past Eighteen Years Under the Title of the Stoddard Lectures The noblest avenue of approach to Constantinople leads from the Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmora. The next best way of reaching it is from the Black Sea through the Bosporus. The least impressive route - and one which corresponds to entering a palace by its backdoor - is that which brings the traveler along the dusty, tedious railroad from Vienna through Servia and Roumania. A voyage across the classic Mediterranean and Ægean is always an inspiring preparation for travel in the Orient. In the days of comparative idleness passed on the deck of a steamer sailing thither from Brindisi, Marseilles, or Athens, the mind is kept continually active on these waters by the historical memories they awaken. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.