PREFACE. IN N this little Handbook to Venice the Editor has endeavoured to describe all the principal places of interest with sufficient clearness to dispense with the services of a valet de place, and at the same time to connect the historical associations with the places described, so as to dispense with the necessity of carrying a volume or two of Histories. He has not attempted to describe everything in Venice, but everything that is really important and interesting; nor has he undertaken to mark out the streets and alleys through which the Tourist must pass in order to get from one place to another. A long experience has proved how fruitless is such a task. The arrangement of the book is very simple, and a copious Index is appended, which will, it is believed, with the aid of the Map specially prepared for this work, enable the Tourist to find, without difficulty, all the information necessary to a thorough enjoyment of the marvels of art and rich treasuries of association in this Queen of Cities. LUDGATE CIRCUS, August, 1874. |