Category: Travel Writing

Recollections of Europe

Our Embarkation.--Leave-taking.--Our Abigail.--Bay of New York.--The Hudson.--Ominous Prediction.--The Prophet falsified.--Enter the Atlantic.--"Land-birds."--Our Master.--Officers of Packet-ships.--Loss of "The Crisis."--The "Three Chimneys."--Calamities at Sea. --Sailing-mat...

Chapters

29. Chapter 29

Letters of Introduction.--European Etiquette.--Diplomatic Entertainments. --Ladies in Coffee-houses.--French Hospitality.--Mr. Canning at Paris. --Parisian Hotels.--French Lady...

27. Chapter 27

Quit England.--Approach to France.--Havre.--Our Reception there.--Female Commissionnaire.--Clamour of Drums.--Port of Havre.--Projected Enterprize.--American Enterprize.--Steam-...

41. Chapter 41

Personal Intercourse.--Parisian Society and Hospitality.--Influence of Money.--Fiacres.--M. de Lameth.--Strife of Courtesy.--Standard of Delicacy.--French Dinners.--Mode of Visi...

26. Chapter 26

Road to London.--Royal Pastime.--Cockney Coachman.--Winchester Assizes. --Approach to London.--The Parks.--Piccadilly.--Street Excursion. --Strangers in London.--Americans in En...

24. Chapter 24

Our Embarkation.--Leave-taking.--Our Abigail.--Bay of New York. --The Hudson.--Ominous Prediction.--The Prophet falsified.--Enter the Atlantic.--"Land-birds."--Our Master.--Offi...

38. Chapter 38

It appears to be the melancholy lot of humanity, that every institution which ingenuity can devise shall be perverted to an end different from the legitimate. If we plan a democ...

31. Chapter 31

Army of France.--Military Display.--Fête of the Trocadero.--Royal Review. --Royal Ordinance.--Dissatisfaction.--Hostile Demonstration.--Dispersion of Rioters.--French Cavalry.--...

35. Chapter 35

Sir Walter Scott in Paris.--Conversation with him.--Copyright in America.--Miss Scott.--French Compliments.--Sir Walter Scott's Person and Manners.--Ignorance as to America.--Fr...

32. Chapter 32

Royal Dinner.--Magnificence and Comfort.--Salle de Diane.--Prince de Condé.--Duke of Orleans.--The Dinner-table.--The Dauphin.--Sires de Coucy.--The Dauphine.--Ancient Usages--M...

25. Chapter 25

Controversy at Cowes.--Custom-house Civility.--English Costume.--Fashion in America.--Quadrilles in New York.--Cowes.--Nautical Gallantry. English Beauty.--Isle of Wight Butter....

40. Chapter 40

Rural Drives.--French Peasantry.--View of Montmartre.--The Boulevards. --The Abattoirs.--Search for Lodgings.--A queer Breakfast.--Royal Progresses and Magnificence.--French Car...

43. Chapter 43

Excursion with Lafayette.--Vincennes.--The Donjon.--Lagrange.--The Towers.--Interior of the House--the General's Apartments.--the Cabinet. --Lafayette's Title.--Church of the Ch...

44. Chapter 44

We all went to bed, a night or two since, as usual, and awoke to learn that there had been a fight in the capital. One of the countless underplots had got so near the surface, t...

36. Chapter 36

French Manufactures.--Sèvres China.--Tapestry of the Gobelins.--Paper for Hangings.--The Savonnerie.--French Carpets.--American Carpets. --Transfer of old Pictures from Wood to...

45. Chapter 45

Although we have not been without our metaphysical hallucinations in America, I do not remember to have heard that "animal magnetism" was ever in vogue among us. A people who ar...

34. Chapter 34

I intend this letter to be useful rather than entertaining. Living, as we Americans do, remote from the rest of the world, and possessing so many practices peculiar to ourselves...

33. Chapter 33

Road to Versailles.--Origin of Versailles.--The present Chateau.--The two Trianons.--La Petite Suisse.--Royal Pastime.--Gardens of Versailles. --The State Apartments.--Marie Ant...

42. Chapter 42

The Chambers have been opened with the customary ceremonies and parade. It is usual for the king, attended by a brilliant _cortège_, to go, on these occasions, from the Tuilerie...

28. Chapter 28

Paris in August 1826.--Montmartre.--The Octroi.--View of Paris. --Montmorency.--Royal Residences.--Duke of Bordeaux.--Horse-racing. --The Dauphine.--Popular feeling in Paris.--R...

39. Chapter 39

Environs of Paris.--Village of St. Ouen.--Our House there.--Life on the River.--Parisian Cockneys.--A pretty Grisette.--Voyage across the Seine. --A rash Adventurer.--Village Fê...

46. Chapter 46

We entered France in July, 1826, and having remained in and about the French capital until February, 1828, we thought it time to change the scene. Paris is effectually the centr...

37. Chapter 37

I cannot tell you whence the vulgar notions that we entertain of the French, which, with many other pernicious prejudices, have made a part of our great inheritance from England...

30. Chapter 30

Your legal pursuits will naturally give you an interest in the subject of the state of justice in this part of the world. A correspondence like mine would not admit of any very...

23. Chapter 23

It may seem to be late in the day to give an account of the more ordinary characteristics of Europe. But the mass of all nations can form their opinions of others through the me...

6. Chapter 6

Letters of Introduction.--European Etiquette.--Diplomatic Entertainments.--Ladies in Coffee-houses.--French Hospitality.--Mr. Canning at Paris.--Parisian Hotels.--French Lady at...

4. Chapter 4

Quit England.--Approach to France.--Havre.--Our Reception there.--Female Commissionnaire.--Clamour of Drums.--Port of Havre.--Projected Enterprize.--American Enterprize.--Steam-...

1. Chapter 1

Our Embarkation.--Leave-taking.--Our Abigail.--Bay of New York.--The Hudson.--Ominous Prediction.--The Prophet falsified.--Enter the Atlantic.--"Land-birds."--Our Master.--Offic...

18. Chapter 18

Personal Intercourse.--Parisian Society and Hospitality.--Influence of Money.--Fiacres.--M. de Lameth.--Strife of Courtesy.--Standard of Delicacy.--French Dinners.--Mode of Visi...

3. Chapter 3

Road to London.--Royal Pastime.--Cockney Coachman.--Winchester Assizes. --Approach to London.--The Parks.--Piccadilly.--Street Excursion. --Strangers in London.--Americans in En...

2. Chapter 2

Controversy at Cowes.--Custom-house Civility.--English Costume.--Fashion in America.--Quadrilles in New York.--Cowes.--Nautical Gallantry. English Beauty.--Isle of Wight Butter....

10. Chapter 10

Road to Versailles.--Origin of Versailles.--The present Chateau.--The two Trianons.--La Petite Suisse.--Royal Pastime.--Gardens of Versailles. --The State Apartments.--Marie Ant...

9. Chapter 9

Royal Dinner.--Magnificence and Comfort.--Salle de Diane.--Prince de Condé.--Duke of Orleans.--The Dinner-table.--The Dauphin.--Sires de Coucy.--The Dauphine.--Ancient Usages--M...

8. Chapter 8

Army of France.--Military Display.--Fête of the Trocadero.--Royal Review.--Royal Ordinance.--Dissatisfaction.--Hostile Demonstration.--Dispersion of Rioters.--French Cavalry.--L...

17. Chapter 17

Rural Drives.--French Peasantry.--View of Montmartre.--The Boulevards. --The Abattoirs.--Search for Lodgings.--A queer Breakfast.--Royal Progresses and Magnificence.--French Car...

20. Chapter 20

Excursion with Lafayette.--Vincennes.--The Donjon.--Lagrange.--The Towers.--Interior of the House--the General's Apartments.--the Cabinet. --Lafayette's Title.--Church of the Ch...

13. Chapter 13

French Manufactures.--Sèvres China.--Tapestry of the Gobelins.--Paper for Hangings.--The Savonnerie.--French Carpets.--American Carpets. --Transfer of old Pictures from Wood to...

5. Chapter 5

Paris in August 1826.--Montmartre.--The Octroi.--View of Paris. --Montmorency.--Royal Residences.--Duke of Bordeaux.--Horse-racing. --The Dauphine.--Popular feeling in Paris.--R...

16. Chapter 16

Environs of Paris.--Village of St. Ouen.--Our House there.--Life on the River.--Parisian Cockneys.--A pretty Grisette.--Voyage across the Seine.--A rash Adventurer.--Village Fêt...

12. Chapter 12

Sir Walter Scott in Paris.--Conversation with him.--Copyright in America.--Miss Scott.--French Compliments.--Sir Walter Scott's Person and Manners.--Ignorance as to America.--Fr...

21. Chapter 21

Insecurity of the Bourbons.--Distrust of Americans.--Literary Visitor. --The Templars.--Presents and Invitations.--A Spy.--American Virtue. --Inconsistency.--Social Freedom in A...

11. Chapter 11

15. Chapter 15

19. Chapter 19

7. Chapter 7

14. Chapter 14

22. Chapter 22