These days of travel in foreign lands and among strange peoples have reached their end. Eight weeks ago to-day, on as bright and cheering an afternoon as ever came in melancholy November, a pilgrim leaning over a vessel's side saw the last lines of his fatherland fading into nothingness beneath the setting sun. Whatever was dear to him of earthly life and of earthly things had been parted with, perhaps never to be look upon again. Nearly two weeks the steamer was on the sea; the remaining six he has passed in many cities and many lands. is two months that he has been abroad. day, down among the forests of spars that crowd the great docks of London one vessel idly waits the coming of the morrow when it shall carry this pilgrim back again to his old home far across the sea. It has been his privilege to write of what he saw in these wanderings of his and his good fortune to know that what he wrote has found some one to read its It To rambling words. It is only with half open eyes that a man can see the great facts of Europe as she has come down to this generation, when he must always hasten his footsteps among the most sacred and venerable monuments of the past. It is with greater weakness still that he can write of them at all. Of the times when judgment in these letters has gone astray it need only be said that the sole desire has always been to speak as the thought was. Any other way had been doubly a falsehood. When thou and he, O gracious and far-off-dwelling reader, first came face to face and hand to hand, it was as strangers with searching and curious eyes. Both methinks should be at greater ease after these weeks of letters. "Ye, who have traced the Pilgrim to the scene "He wore his sandal-shoon and scallop shell." ERRATA. Many mortifying errors have crept into the foregoing pages, owing to the writer's absence in Europe and New York. Those which distort the meaning are noted below; others the good reader will correct without help. It is simply for his own satisfaction that the writer alludes to these mistakes at all. Page 0-For" Earl Grey" read "Earl Guy." Page 21-For "Crevny" read "Cressy; for "Poirtiers,' "Poitiers." Page 26-For "pointed as Ann's" read "pointed out as Ann's; for "for which her," "for the " like of which her; for "$5," Page 28-After the 24th line insert "which the Page 31-For "those read "thou." Page 36-For "all its gorgeous" read "all this gorgeous;" for " verily," "wisely;" for "Vasely," 9966 Naseby;" for "earlier," "later." Page 40-(And through the letter,) For "St. Augustine" read "S. Augustin." Page 59-For "Maison" read "Maisons." Page 62-For "abdicature" read "abdication." Page 72-For "of little Culozas I" read "as little of Culoz as I" Page 73-For "Balais " read "Calais." Page 83-For "peaceful ace" read "peaceful face." Page 90-For "that the building" read "that the Page 91-For "had built St. Peter's" read "built Page 96-For "bull rushes" read “bulrushes.” Page 131-For "The effort" read "The effect." Page 139-For "low fragmentary" read "how Page 144-For "247 feet " read "347 feet." Page 148-For "done of all" read "alone of all." Page 177-For "their walks made" read “their Page 178-For "and they are read and there Page 202-For "line "read"levil." Page 216-For "Pepin le Bref, son of Charle- Page 230-Fortwo thousand" read "two hun- Page 240-For "grined" read “groined." Page 248-For "Senheib" and " Senherib." Demon " read "Demos;" for was a grave question," tion." THE END. |