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Excerpt from Home Tours Around the World P RE fac E A frog in the well knows not the wide ocean. Proverb. The supreme benefit of travel lies in the priceless recollections which we bring back from our wanderings. Travel enables us to make the conquest of the world, appreciative observation garners up its harvest, and memory furnishes the feast. A tourist may return. From travel penniless, yet be a mental millionaire; while some illiterate Croesus, who _has never visited the shrines of Nature, Art, and History, is, in the realm of memory, a bankrupt. The benefits of travel, - who can doubt them? What is the whole world but an open book whose author is Almighty God, and on the pages of which have been written, more or less distinctly, stories of the various races of humanity? Whatever be their language, nationality, or faith, all students of the Past are heirs together in the heritage of History; and under the broad dome of heaven, the homes of noble minds and the scenes of heroic deeds become our universal sanctuaries. 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.

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