Excerpt from Some Summer Days Abroad Uch as one may enjoy life on the ocean, the change from the broad, blue expanse of the Atlantic, to the green-sward and shaded lanes and by-ways, and the luxuriant hedge-rows and fields of England, is inspiring. No one would linger in Liverpool, with its ceaseless whirl of busy industries and its deafening roar of traffic longer than to gather up one's luggage pass the brief investigations of the courteous officers of the Customs; and hurry through the crowded streets to the station where the journey inland. 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.