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Excerpt from Sketchy Pages of Foreign Travel Even in this day of superior facilities for the tourist, comparatively few of our people go abroad; and most of those who do travel appear to have no higher motive than self-gratification. True benefactors of the reading world are the select minority of travelers who study every thing from the best point of view, and faithfully chronicle the results in available form. To this honorable class, whose mission it is to please and instruct mankind, our author, Dr. Young, pre-eminently belongs. His tour of the far East, some years ago, was described with master-touch in his "Twenty Thousand Miles;" but this account of his recent eight months' excursion through Europe, when the experiences were altogether different and more stimulating, will give him a clearer title to the high rank we have assigned him. It is indeed a charming record of travel, and by him happily styled "Sketchy Pages." The auspicious sojourn in England and France, and the leisurely passage into Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, etc., afforded "sketchy" material without limit for this always cheery compagnon de voyage. 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.