THE SPELL SERIES
Each volume with many illustrations from originaldrawings or special photographs. Octavo, withdecorative cover, gilt top, boxed.
Per volume $2.50 net, postpaid $2.70
THE SPELL OF ITALY
By Caroline Atwater Mason
THE SPELL OF FRANCE
By Caroline Atwater Mason
THE SPELL OF ENGLAND
By Julia de W. Addison
THE SPELL OF HOLLAND
By Burton E. Stevenson
THE SPELL OF SWITZERLAND
By Nathan Haskell Dole
THE SPELL OF THE ITALIAN LAKES
By William D. McCrackan
In Preparation
THE SPELL OF THE RHINE
By Frank Roy Fraprie
L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
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ILLUSTRATED
from photographs and original paintings by
Woldemar Ritter
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L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
BOSTON MDCCCCXIII
Copyright, 1913, by
L. C. Page & Company
(INCORPORATED)
Entered at Stationers’ Hall, London
All rights reserved
First Impression, October, 1913
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.
The present book is cast in the guise of fiction. The vague andflitting forms of my niece and her three children are wholly figmentsof the imagination. No such person as “Will Allerton” enters mydoorway. The “Moto,” which does such magical service in transporting“Emile” and his admirers from place to place is as unreal as Solomon’sCarpet.
After Lord Sheffield and his family had started back from a visit toGibbon at Lausanne, his daughter, Maria T. Holroyd, wrote thehistorian: “I do not know wha