"My mind impels me to write on places where
I have been and on some of the people whom I
have seen in them."

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.

1906

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1905, 1906,

BY THE OUTLOOK COMPANY.

COPYRIGHT, 1906,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1906.

Norwood Press

J. S. Cushing & Co. - Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

PREFACE

THE papers which make up this book were printed in The Outlook with the same title. The first gives the plan and purpose which was substantially held to through the series.

As we now collect them, we are able frequently to add in detail suggestions which have been made by courteous correspondents,- for whose kindness I thank them heartily.

It seemed desirable at the end of the series of travel proper to include two papers on the City of Washington, which had also been printed in The Outlook.

MATUNUCK, RHODE ISLAND,

July, 1906.

EDWARD E. HALE.