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AROUND THE CLOCK IN EUROPE
PIAZZA SAN MARCO FROM THE GRAND CANAL Page 305
AROUND THE CLOCK IN EUROPE
A Travel-Sequence
BY
CHARLES FISH HOWELL
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
HAROLD FIELD KELLOGG
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1912
COPYRIGHT, 1912, BY CHARLES FISH HOWELL
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published October 1912
TO
HELEN EDITH HOWELL
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IN EXPLANATION
The pages that follow should best account for themselves, of course,but for the satisfaction of those who very properly require somegeneral conception of a project before definitely entering upon it, theauthor begs to say that he has here sought to visualize to the readerthe appearance and the life of these cities at the hours indicated,and to preserve, as well, the distinctive atmosphere of each. He hasendeavored to catch and present faithful impressions of the streets,their kaleidoscopic animation, and the activities and characteristicsof the people; to touch the pen-pictures with a light overwash of theracial and national peculiarities that distinguish each, and to investthem with what insight, sympathy, and enthusiasm he is capable of. Itis “fitting the scene with the apposite phrase,” as Mr. Howells hasso aptly described the process and as he himself has so wonderfullyexemplified it. A formidable undertaking? Indeed