Practical European Guide Preparation, Cost, Routes, Sight-Seeing #263587

When it is suggested that Americans take too much money out of the country each year to leave in Europe, it is well to remember what equivalent it returns to us. We need just what the money buys, — a knowledge of other people and other methods, a broadening of thought, the experience of seeing how the world moves and what keeps it progressing, and, best, of all, a realizing sense of how great our own new country is in its lofty ideas of right and justice, its zeal in good works, and its rare prosperity for the masses. Our system of education encourages a taste for reading which develops individual culture, so that a constant preparation for travel — the real school of culture — is going on. It is well, there fore, that every aid should be given to all who may contemplate a trip abroad, and that it may be seen how easily such a journey can be managed with a little care. It is my aim in this book to give some practical and useful hints in regard to foreign travel, — hints that I hope may be really useful, and many of which will aim to supply necessary information not found in any of the many guide books which compete for the prospective traveller's attention.