Excerpt from Golden Memories of Old World Lands: Or What I Saw in Europe, Egypt, Palestine and Greece

This is the story of nearly a year of travel in Europe and the Levant. The author's first pilgrimage abroad was to Europe and Great Britain: her second (less than two years later) was to Egypt, Palestine and Greece, and includ cd a re-visit of portions of Europe and some additional foreign countries not included in her first long tour. Ten eeks were devoted to London, six weeks she spent in Par is. She journeyed to the grandest capitals, the chief art cen ters, the most exquisite scenery, the most famous castles, palaces, and cathedrals of Europe; she visited the homes or shrines of kings and conquerors; of many illustrious dead whom fame has crowned in the several realms of literature and art, of sainthood, and of song. She had exceptionally favorable opportunities for observing the social schemes that make life better worth living to the poor in great cities. To those she added a cruise on the Mediterranean to the lands of Moses, of Plato and of Christ; inspecting the won drous antiquities of Lower Egypt, its stupendous pyramids, its inscrutable Sphinx, its catacombs and mummied kings, its Suez Canal, Land of Goshen, cosmopolitan Alexandria, and vast and piquant Cairo. Thence among the hallowed associations of Jerusalem and the Jordan, she followed in the possible footprints of patriarchs and prophets, and of Jesus himself. Thence in the teeth of a Levanter that recalled Paul's shipwreck, she sailed to the shores of once glorious Greece, exploring classic Athens and ancient Eleu sis, where mossed-o'er ruin and shining bay, and every templed height, and the peerless Parthenon are eloquent reminders of the Golden Age that antedated the Christian Era, and are the marvel and admiration of history.

Chapter I treats of travel in general, offering some hints which it is hoped will prove useful to prospective tourists. He who prefers the narrative at once will turn to its begin ning in Chapter II.

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