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JOHN L. STODDARD'S
LECTURES
NORWAY SWITZERLAND
ATHENS VENICE
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Boston Bookbinding Co., Cambridge, Mass.
John L. Stoddard's
LECTURES
COMPLETE IN TEN VOLUMES
VOLUME ONE
BOSTON
BALCH BROTHERS CO.
MCMIX
CHICAGO: GEO. L. SHUMAN & CO.
Copyright, 1897
By John L. Stoddard
Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
John L. Stoddard was born in Brookline, Mass., April 24, 1850. Hegraduated at Williams College, as valedictorian of his class, in 1871, andthen studied theology for two years at Yale Divinity School. Next he taughtLatin and French in the Boston Latin School. In 1874 he was able to gratifya long cherished desire to travel in foreign lands, and not only made thecustomary tour of Europe, but visited Greece, Asia Minor, Palestine andEgypt as well. He then studied in Germany, and upon his return to America,began his career as a lecturer, which for about twenty years has known nointerruptions save those due to his repeated visits to remote countries. Histravels embrace nearly all the habitable parts of the globe.5
PREFACE
A witty French abbé was once asked why he kept upa country-seat which he never visited. "Do younot know," he answered, "that I must have someplace, where, though I never go to it, I can always imaginethat I might be happier than where I am?" The world islike the abbé. Most of us are not living, we are anticipatinglife. We are always "going to our country seats." It isthe land we have not visited that is to give to us our greatesthappiness. If we have not yet found it in America, it isawaiting us in Europe; if not in Europe, surely in Japan.As the Germans say, "Da wo ich nicht bin, da ist dasGlück." Hence travel is attractive, if only as a means ofacquiring that happiness which here seems so elusive. Allof us hope to some day visit Europe and the Orient, an