Excerpt from European Years: The Letters of an Idle Man What a world they open Travel is the natural material of letters it brightens the mind, there is novelty in the scene, and human life runs its whole gamut of interest. My friend is an old traveller, and his memory goes far back, and visits many lands, - more than are told of in this last quarter-century of his letters; but here there are interludes of California and Japan and India, he ranges to Vienna, Copenhagen, and England, glances at Paris and tours Spain; the ...
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Excerpt from European Years: The Letters of an Idle Man What a world they open Travel is the natural material of letters it brightens the mind, there is novelty in the scene, and human life runs its whole gamut of interest. My friend is an old traveller, and his memory goes far back, and visits many lands, - more than are told of in this last quarter-century of his letters; but here there are interludes of California and Japan and India, he ranges to Vienna, Copenhagen, and England, glances at Paris and tours Spain; the home-country of the letters, however, is the Germany of Dresden, in the earlier portion, and, in the later, the wonderful Medi terranean crescent that reaches from the Azure Coast to Naples and is backed by Northern Italy, the Swiss Alps and the Tyrol. It is no part of my plan to open the letters or discuss them; but I will express my delight in the vignettes of nature on the pages, singular in the power of brief descriptive strokes to give space, picturesqueness, sharp detail. The habitual and spontaneous response of the writer to nature, to her freshness and simplicity, to atmosphere as a physical thing, climate, and the real joys of country-life is one Of the traits of the book, which is rich in temperament. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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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