Excerpt from Three Months in Foreign Lands When we left for our Mediterranean cruise, January 30, 1905, I had no idea of writing notes or publishing them. However, on the trip we found so many scenes of interest that are very different from what is seen in this country, or the well traveled paths of the ordinary European tourist, that I decided to write some discriptive letters of our journey to my daughter and her husband, Mr. And Mrs. Chas. B. Farish, and to my partner, Mr. Joshua Motter, with whom I have been closely associated in the whole sale dry goods trade for the past thirty years. After our return, I had these letters type-written and gave a few copies to my friends. Many of them said they were interesting and instructive and urged me to have the notes pub lished in book form. 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.