Like old Lyly in his Euphues, "I was inforced to preferre their friendshippe, before mine own fame-being more careful to satisfy theire requestes, than fearfull of other's reportes."
This volume pretends not to be a connected account of an European tour; only a series of etchings, or outline sketches from memory, of pleasant places in the old world, whose historic associations clothed them with a pleasant charm, and surrounded them with a never failing interest. They are at best but random sketches, and lay claim to no great literary merit.