Excerpt from Shepp's Photographs of the World: Consisting of Photographic Views of Cities, Street Scenes, Public Buildings, Cathedrals, Mosques, Churches, Temples Etc

No attempt has been made to supplement the plates with elaborate descriptions, for the simple reason that each subject has been selected with a view to having it explain itself. One does not require descriptions of what one can see, at the same time, a brief note attached to each picture establishes its identity and furnishes a clear summary of its character, and, where necessary, of its historical associations or its standard of importance in the world's existence. With these notes as suggestions, and the pictures of the actual scenes before him, the reader has only to turn to any of the many accessible books of reference for the amplification of the minor details of his stock of knowledge, and so complete his trip around the world as if he were making it, guide - book in hand.

The journey which is made to the eastward begins in Ireland, and carries the reader through Scotland and England to the Continent, where he visits Belgium, Holland, Norway, Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria and Italy, to the decaying ruins of Greece and the crumb ling empire of the Turk. The great capitals, like London, Paris and Rome, and the marvelous mountain scenery of Switzerland, are treated with ample fulness. The home of Shakespeare is visited, together with the objects of antiquity in England and in Continental Europe; the art galleries of Paris, of Rome and Florence; the fjords of Norway on the north and the canals of Venice on the south. Egypt is traversed from Alexandria to the Upper Nile. A journey into Palestine includes the Holy City of Jeru salem and the most sacred places of the Bible, like Nazareth and Bethlehem. The traveller passes through Syria to Damascus, and wanders eastward by way of India, China and the Sandwich Islands, to our own continent.

From page to page he goes, from the teeming life of London, Liverpool, Paris and Berlin, with their bustling highways, seething with human activity, into the presence of the Sphinx, into the shadow of the Pyramids, into the ravaged ruins of the Parthenon and the perishing remnants of the6 preface.

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