EUROPEAN GUIDE BOOK FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING TRAVELLERS. ILLUSTRATED. PART II. INCLUDING SWITZERLAND, GERMANY, ITALY, SPAIN, PORTUGAL, RUSSIA, DENMARK, NORWAY, SWEDEN, GREECE, EGYPT, ALGERIA, AND THE HOLY LAND. TO WHICH IS APPENDED A VOCABULARY OF TRAVEL-TALK, IN LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, AND DYER; NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY. PARIS: GALIGNANI AND CO. BOULOGNE: MERRIDEW. VIENNA: GEROLD AND CO. FRANKFORT-ON-THE-MAIN: C. JUGEL; JOSEPH BAER AND CO. PREFACE TO THE SIXTEENTH EDITION. INCE the first publication of this Guide Book in the year 1870, fifteen editions have been printed and sold. Each successive edition has contained new and interesting matter, and important additions have been made to the maps and plans. The present edition, which is issued two months earlier than the previous annual editions, contains records of such events of interest to tourists as have transpired since the publication of the editions of 1879. Among the additions is a copious table of "Routes from London to the principal cities of the Continent." The large railway map of Europe has been carefully revised up to the last moment before going to press, and is now the most perfect map of the kind to be found in any Guide Book. The author avails himself of this opportunity to renew his grateful acknowledgments to the considerable number of tourists who have addressed letters to him and to his publishers commending the Guide Book, and to the reviewers of the United States and Great Britain, who, in every one of a great number of instances which have been brought to his notice, have spoken of the work in terms of the highest praise. |