Over the Ocean; or, Sights and Scenes in Foreign Lands

Going Abroad.--What it costs.--Hints to Tourists.--Life on board Ship.--Land Ho!--Examining Luggage.--The Emerald Isle.--Blarney Castle.--Dublin.--Dublin Castle.--St. Patrick's...

Chester to Liverpool.--An English Breakfast.--A Trial of Patience.--Liverpool Docks.--St. George's Hall.--Poverty and Suffering.--The Lake District.--Home of the Poets.-- Keswic...

Edinburgh.--Historic Streets.--Edinburgh Castle.--Bonnie Dundee.--Rooms of Historic Story.--The Scottish Regalia. --Curiosities of the Old City.--Holyrood Palace.--Relics of the...

Glasgow Cathedral.--Vestiges of Vandalism.--Bible Stories in Colored Glass.--The Actor's Epitaph.--Tam O'Shanter's Ride.--Burns's Cottage.--Kirk Alloway.--A Reminder from the Wi...

Kenilworth.--Stratford on Avon.--Interesting Mementos.-- Stratford Church.--Shakespeare's Safeguard.--Warwick Castle.--Dungeon and Hall.--Warder's Horn and Warwick Vase.--Leices...

London.--Feeing Servants.--Railway Porters.--London Hotels.--Sights in London Streets.--Cabs and Cab-drivers. --London Shops.--Hints to Buyers.--A London Banking-house. --Routin...

The Original Wax Works.--London Theatres.--Full Dress at the Opera.--Play Bills.--A Palace for the People.--Parks of London.--Zoölogical Gardens.--The Tower of London.--The Silv...

From London to Paris.--Grand Hotels.--The Arch of Triumph. --Paris by Gaslight.--Site of the Guillotine.-- Improvements in Paris.--The Bastille.--The Old Guard.--The Louvre.--Ga...

Good by to Paris.--Church of St. Gudule.--Field of Waterloo.--Brussels Lace.--Antwerp.--The Cathedral Spire. --Dusseldorf.--Cologne Cathedral.--Riches of the Church. --Up the Rh...

The Righi.--Guides and Alpenstocks.--Climbing the Alps.-- Night on the Mountain Top.--The Yodlyn.--Lucerne.-- Wonderful Organ Playing.--A Sail on Lake Lucerne.--Scene of Tell's...

The Splügen Pass.--The Via Main.--Tamina Gorge.--Falls of Schaffhausen.--Munich.--Galleries of Paintings.--Grecian Sculpture restored.--A Bronze Giant.--Hall of the Colossi. --T...

Venice.--Gondolas and Gondoliers.--Shylock.--The Rialto.-- The Giant's Staircase.--The Lion's Mouth.--Terrible Dungeons.--Square of St. Mark.--The Bronze Horses.--Church of St....

Tower of Pisa.--The Duomo.--Galileo's Lamp.--The Baptistery.--Campo Santo.--Over the Apennines.--Genoa.-- Streets of Genoa.--Pallavicini Gardens.--Water Jokes.-- Turin to Susa.-...

Do you remember, dear reader, when you were a youngster, and studied a geography with pictures in it, or a "First" or "Second" Book of History, and wondered, as you looked upon...

It is a comparatively short ride from Chester to Liverpool, and of course we went to the Adelphi Hotel, so frequently heard mentioned our side of the water; and if ever an Ameri...

From Penrith we were whirled away over the rails to Edinburgh. Edinburgh is certainly a wonder--a wonder of historic interest, a wonder of curious old buildings, and a wonder of...

Glasgow Cathedral, situated on the highest ground in the metropolis of Scotland, looks over the spires, domes, and crowded masonry of a city of half a million inhabitants. A vie...

Kenilworth Castle will in many respects disappoint the visitor, for its chief attraction is the interest with which Walter Scott has invested it in his vivid description of the...

The train glides into the great glass-roofed station; we are in London. A uniformed porter claps his hand on the door of every first-class carriage, and runs by its side till th...

If there is any one exhibition that seems to possess interest to the inhabitants of the rural districts of both America and England, it is "wax works." Mrs. Jarley understood th...

From London to Paris. One of the thoughts that comes uppermost in the mind while one is making preparations for the journey is the passage of the Channel, about which so much ha...

Good-by to Paris, for we are on the road to Brussels, in a night express train, swiftly passing through Douai and Valenciennes, harassed, bothered, and pestered at Quievran, on...

Now let us tighten our girdles for our first experience in Swiss mountain-climbing, for we start for Righi at nine A. M., on the summit of which we propose to see the sun set, a...

Once more we are in sight of the familiar snow-clads and ice-fields; the glaciers are in sight in every direction; there are the mountain peaks, the names all terminating with "...

On our first Sunday in Vienna we attended service at the Church of St. Augustine, the chief features of the service being the splendid robes of the priests, and the magnificent...

We found ourselves early in the morning, after an all-night ride, running over a flat, marshy, sea-shore-looking country, approaching Venice. Venice! There was something magical...

One of the earliest pictures of scenes in foreign lands that I remember to have looked upon, was the Leaning Tower at Pisa; this and the renowned Porcelain Tower at Pekin always...

And now we were once more to cross that narrow strip of troubled water which separates Gallic shores from _perfide Albion_, and whose horrors doubtless have much to do with the...