Excerpt from Running Sketches of Men and Places: In England, France, Germany, Belgium, and ScotlandIN putting out the following pages, it has been in part to satisfy the inquiries by my friends in this country, how I liked my tour through Europe, as well as to pre serve the pleasing incidents which were shown me, by the people wherever I sojourned.Without following the general course of travellers in encumbering their books in deep historical researches of the various countries they have visited, - I have merely put enough to interest the general reader, of the towns, and. Time-worn ruins which came under my personal observation.
