BUY AND SELL BILLS OF EXCHANGE, On Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Holland, ISSUE COMMERCIAL AND TRAVELERS' CREDITS IN STERLING, Available in any part of the world, and in Dollars, for use in this and adjacent Countries. MAKE TELEGRAPHIC TRANSFERS OF MONEY Between this Country and Europe. Make Collections of Drafts drawn abroad TO TRAVELERS-Travelers' Credits issued either against cash de posited or satisfactory guarantee of repayment: In Dollars, for use in the United States and adjacent countries; or in Pounds Sterling, for use in any part of the world. Application for credits may be addressed to either of the above houses direct, or through any first-class Bank or Banker. BROWN, SHIPLEY & CO. 36 Chapel Street, Liverpool Founder's Court, Lothbury, London. FOR THE VACATION TOURIST IN EUROPE. A COMPACT ITINERARY OF THE BRITISH ISLES, WITH MAPS. EDITION FOR 1883. BOSTON: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY. LONDON: LOCKWOOD & Co., 7 STATIONER'S HALL 1883. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873 by in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. Copyright, 1883, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. All rights reserved. RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. In bringing out this twelfth annual edition (revised to April, 1883), the editor wishes to emphasize the statement in his original preface, that the Guide is meant "for the vacation tourist," who can spend but a few months abroad, not for the traveller who can take a year or more for the tour. The "Baedekers" and "Murrays " which are indispensable to the latter are only a bewilderment to the former, who cannot possibly see all that they describe, and wants judicious help in selecting what he can see. To condense all the information of the "Baedekers" and "Murrays " into one small volume would be only to make a table of contents to those series, of little service to either class of traveliers. A book that shall really be a guide to the vacation tourist must omit many things which it would be tantalizing to include, and which would take up space needed for the proper treatment of other things. The present editor may have omitted some things which are of interest to individual tourists; but if they have followed his advice in "reading up" the tour in advance, they can make memoranda of these things on the blank leaves inserted for that purpose. The editor would repeat his acknowledgments to friends and correspondents for information and sug gestions that have been of material service to him in the work of revision. He trusts that they will continue to aid him in the same way. Many of the details of the book are anything but constant quantities," and it would be remarkable if some changes in them did not occur without his receiving prompt intelligence thereof. A hotel may be shut up, or a new proprietor may give it a new name, or in some cases its character may become better or worse; the days or the hours of admission to a museum or picturegallery may be changed, or an art collection may be transferred from one building to another; and a new edition of the "Guide" may be printed before the editor hears of the alteration. He will be grateful for information on any of these minutiæ, no less than for the correction of more serious errors, should such be detected. The guide-books published in Europe are not revised every year, but at intervals ranging from three to six years. The editor of this Satchel Guide means to keep up his original plan of a yearly revision, hoping thereby to make the little book more serviceable He is grateful for the encouragement he has already received, and will strive to deserve the continued favor of the travelling public. to the tourist. Letters intended for the editor may be addressed to the care of the publishers. |