BERLIN: PANORAMA FROM THE TOWER OF THE TOWN HALL

WITH FAMOUS

AUTHORS

SELECTED AND EDITED

WITH

INTRODUCTIONS, ETC.

BY

FRANCIS W. HALSEY

Editor of "Great Epochs in American History"
Associate Editor of "The World's Famous Orations"
and of "The Best of the World's Classics," etc.

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COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

[Printed in the United States of America]

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INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES V

AND VI

Germany, Austria-Hungary and
Switzerland

The tourist's direct route to Germany is by ships that go to the two great German portsBremen and Hamburg, whence fast steamer trains proceed to Berlin and other interior cities. One may also land at Antwerp or Rotterdam, and proceed thence by fast train into Germany. Either of these routes continued takes one to Austria. Ships by the Mediterranean route landing at Genoa or Trieste, provide another way for reaching either country. In order to reach Switzerland, the tourist has many well-worn routes available.

As with England and France, so with Germany -our earliest information comes from a Roman writer, Julius Cæsar; but in the case of Germany, this information has been greatly amplified by a later and noble treatise from the pen of Tacitus. Tacitus paints a splendid picture of the domestic virtues and personal valor of these tribes, holding