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OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE
BY
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
To
MY DAUGHTER AMELIA
(MRS. TURNER SARGENT)
MY FAITHFUL AND DEVOTED COMPANION
THIS OUTLINE OF OUR SUMMER EXCURSION
IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTORY
OUR HUNDRED DAYS IN EUROPE.
CHAPTER
I. THE VOYAGE.--LIVERPOOL.--CHESTER.--LONDON.--EPSOM
III. LONDON.--ISLE OF WIGHT.--CAMBRIDGE.--OXFORD.--YORK.--EDINBURGH
IV. STRATFORD-ON-AVON.--GREAT MALVERN.--TEWKESBURY.--BATH.--SALISBURY.--STONEHENGE
V. STONEHENGE.--SALISBURY.--OLD SARUM.--BEMERTON.--BRIGHTON
VII. BOULOGNE.--PARIS.--LONDON.--LIVERPOOL.--THE HOMEWARD PASSAGE
VIII. GENERAL IMPRESSIONS.--MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES AT THE AGE OF 82. From a painting by Sarah W.Whitman Frontispiece
INTRODUCTORY.
A PROSPECTIVE VISIT.
After an interval of more than fifty years, I propose taking a secondlook at some parts of Europe. It is a Rip Van Winkle experiment which Iam promising myself. The changes wrought by half a century in thecountries I visited amount almost to a transformation. I left theEngland of William the Fourth, of the Duke of Wellington, of Sir RobertPeel; the France of Louis Philippe, of Marshal Soult, of Thiers, ofGuizot. I went from Manchester to Liverpool by the new railroad, theonly one I saw in Europe. I looked upon England from the box of astage-coach, upon France from the coupé of a diligence, upon Italy fromthe cushion of a carrozza. The broken windows of Apsley House were stillboarded up when I was