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EBOOK SEEING EUROPE WITH FAMOUS ***


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[Illustration: Courtesy International Mercantile Marine Co.
THE COLISEUM AND ARCH OF TITUS]


SEEING EUROPE
WITH FAMOUS
AUTHORS

SELECTED AND EDITED
WITH
INTRODUCTIONS, ETC.
BY
FRANCIS W. HALSEY
_Editor of "Great Epochs in American History"
Associate Editor of "The Worlds Famous Orations"
and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc._

IN TEN
VOLUMES
ILLUSTRATED

Vol. VII
ITALY, SICILY, AND GREECE
Part One

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
NEW YORK AND LONDON
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY
[_Printed in the United States of America_]


INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES VII AND VIII
Italy, Sicily and Greece

Tourists in great numbers now go to Italy by steamers that have Naples
and Genoa for ports. By the fast Channel steamers, however, touching at
Cherbourg and Havre, one may make the trip in less time (rail journey
included). In going to Rome, four days could thus be saved; but the
expense will be greater--perhaps forty per cent.
... "and now, fair Italy!
Thou art the garden of the world, the home
Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree;
Even in thy desert, what is like to thee?
Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste
More rich than other climes' fertility;
Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced
With an immaculate charm which can not be defaced.
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