Excerpt from Impressions of a Careless Traveler Made to me several years ago I have adopted as the motto for the six months' vacation trip in Europe which I have decided to take. I shall leave my books and my pen at home. I will only take writing material sufficient for an occasional letter to friends, and not a great deal even of that. I will not study art, or archi tecture, or politics, or literature; not even the geography of the lands I visit, nor the manners and customs of the people. I will not observe; I will only see what chance and inclination combine to put before my eyes; nor reflect on what I see, unless idle musing on pleasant scenes may be dignified by the term reflection. For these six months I will take the harness off my mind alto gether, and let it run at will in new pastures. I will be conscientiously idle. The itinerary we have selected gives excellent opportunity for such idle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.