Excerpt from Practical European Guide Preparation, Cost, Routes, Sight-Seeing When it is suggested that Americans take too much money out of the country each year to leave in Europe, it is well to remember what equivalent it returns to us. We need just what the money buys, - a knowledge of other people and other methods, a broadening of thought, the experience of seeing how the world moves and what keeps it progressing, and, best, of all, a realizing sense of how great our own new country is in its lofty ideas of right and justice, its zeal in good works, and its rare prosperity for the masses. Our system of education encourages a taste for reading which develops individual culture, so that a constant preparation for travel - the real school of culture - is going on. It is well, there fore, that every aid should be given to all who may contemplate a trip abroad, and that it may be seen how easily such a journey can be managed with a little care. It is my aim in this book to give some practical and useful hints in regard to foreign travel, - hints that I hope may be really useful, and many of which will aim to supply necessary information not found in any of the many guide books which compete for the prospective traveller's attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.